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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by gigatexal on Thursday March 13, 2025 @01:52AM (#43350693)
Exactly. The author is “using it wrong”. The iPad is an appliance much like the phone is. Get a MacBook Air and call it a day. The article is clickbait at best because everyone knows iPadOS is not as open as macOS.
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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by DidYaWipe on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:13AM (#43351204)
Absolutely. The entire "article" insults the reader by expecting him to believe such a stupid premise, or makes the author look stupid. Nobody who wants to do stuff at the command line would seriously buy a TABLET, especially not one from Apple.
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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by zimpenfish on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:55AM (#43351119)
> The article is clickbait at best

To be fair, "theregister" is a big hint that you're going to be opening unsubstantiated clickbait 50% of the time (rising to 90% if it's relating to Apple.)

(Also Pesce has been banging the "ipads should be computers" drum for a while - e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/23/apples_got_a_good_thi...)

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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by DidYaWipe on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:16AM (#43351216)
Such a dumb drum. iPads are inherently unsuited to the tasks for which we pull out a computer: work requiring precision, rapid text input, or I/O.
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