I do all these things on an OS that is entirely a open source community effort using absolutely nothing proprietary. F-Droid and it's derivatives offer all these things easily. Maybe I'm missing the point here?
Can we see the source code for your iphone ssh client? How sure are you about its security?
Computer freedom and programming is about far more than the terminal.
My biggest issue with the locked down nature of phones/tablets is that they hold the next generation of programmers, and instead groom users to be just dumb consumers.
For many people a phone or tablet is their first and often only computer. Especially in emerging markets. You can't create on these devices, they are designed only to consume.
No more curiosity driven discovery of programming. You're not allowed to extend your device, that is reserved for silicon valley elites who can afford an additional $1500 device. So stop asking and just consume what they produce for you.
Not sure I agree entirely. You still have apps for making music and video content, as well as drawing and painting etc. But I absolutely see your point. Hopefully with time they will make it possible to write and compile apps on iOS directly.
I'm not holding my breath for this. There's no indication that they're planning on it and every step taken since the inception of the iPhone has been to lock the device down more in the name of "security."
Android and Chromebooks are the same.
For linux on mobile, You want Sailfish OS - https://sailfishos.org/ not Android. Also see https://jolla.com/ who made it.
Why not support a FOSS mobile like Pinephone or Librem?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_p...
Back when I left Windows, Windows 7 had just come out, and I switched over to Linux and FreeBSD because I learned about those at the university and I came to appreciate open source software.
Then came smart phones and I heard that Android ran Linux. So I was like wow finally a computer in my pocket where I can do everything I can on my laptop!
But I soon learned that this was not the case.
Mobile platforms are fundamentally different, and the terminal is not relevant for most things I want to do with a phone.
I want to record videos, watch videos, talk to people, read stuff. And I still have an SSH client on my iPhone for when I need to remote into my server to do stuff on it while on the go.
And iPhone is giving me the best experience, with the addition of being really tight on the security. And for my phone this is what I want.
I am staying with Apple until they take it too far. Then I will leave them in a heartbeat. But for all the years I have been using iOS, everything Apple has been doing has been a betterment of the experience.
The only one thing really that bothered me was I had a magazine subscription and reading those magazines is in theory only possible on iOS. Even though actually it’s just an app for reading PDF files. And I didn’t have access to the PDF files directly. But that was a minor thing anyway, and recently I jailbroke an old iOS device that I have had laying in a drawer that was running an old iOS version and I was actually able to extract PDF files from the app.
But that subscription or two that I had, those were an exception anyway. Mostly when I read something on the phone I read on the web. And all of the eBooks that I have ever bought I have bought on the computer and not locked down in an app.