Far less open-source software for it, no compilers, emulators banned until recently.
And as for paid software, almost everything a bloodys subscription even for things like note-taking apps, that or loaded with ads and microtransactions.
And anything touch-centric encourages dumbed-down limited-functionality software to begin with. More advanced software requires more precise input devices.
Please don't move the goal post to "I also want to compile and run code" because I got nothing for that. I just ssh to my home server and use my normal shell and neovim there.
What do you mean, no local git? There is local git...it's just another app. I know it sucks. Also pretty sure code-server has working git functionality?
I don't find that experience good either, but I mostly write rust, so not having rust tool chain and its component is a dealbreaker for me.
I'm just saying you can write code and commit from iPad directly. I'd rather get the ability to use jetbrains IDEs via their remote client, but I don't think it will ever happen.
iPad has the power to play a majority of Steam games, Windows apps, linux distributions, etc.. but due to it being so locked down, it's essentially a youtube machine. iPad is a joke.
My relaxing on the couch creative activity is writing code in compiled languages, running a server, and seeing it go in the browser. This is impossible on an iPad.
There are many other creative workflows possible on an iPad, but I'm not really interested in getting good at those when I have the one that I'm already working on, you know?
And I own exclusively Apple hardware; I'm not some contrarian anti Apple fanboy, I promise.
or a terminal or a decent ide or an ability to script anything. lots of companies rely on custom bespoke software made by an employee who got fed up by something, basically no possibility of doing that on an ipad, etc etc.
but sure, just call me an NPC, you’re so unique and good at noticing patterns and not rude
There have been terminal programs for the iPad since at least 2017, when I started using the one above.
As for "custom bespoke software," why would you try to run that on an iPad in the first place? My company has plenty custom in-house programs, but I don't complain that they won't run on a toaster, or a Commodore 64, or a Cray. That's like saying you won't buy a speedboat because it can't carry all the iron ore that your company's dump truck can haul. It just makes no sense.
Prompt lets you log into some other computer and run programs there, not run programs on your iPad. Hell, I used it to fix a production bug from my phone in like 2013.
It's wild to me the levels someone will go to defend a corporation's right to lock away the ability to install anything the user wants.
In a perfect (from their pov) world Apple would prefer the internet didn't even exist, that way they could put up a walled garden AppleNet and take 30% of everything there too.
I chose your comment to respond to but there's a handful of you going to war in the comments, it's just wild to me.
