Steve Troughton-SmithiPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years
People telling me the iPad is the best ‘light computing’ platform are kinda proving my point. It’s not called iPad Light (and it’s not priced like one either). The Mac is a great light computing platform too, but it also does everything else too. iPad has just never lived up to its potential, and 14 years in I think it’s safe to say never will
amonduin@stroughtonsmith I really think Apple needs to let loose in iPad OS
1. Fix up the file system (stop trying to be cloud first, I am constantly dealing with iCloud sync crashing apps while I am in the middle of working on a file).
2. Let apps run for longer in the background before suspension and make it easier to implement long running background tasks.
3. Allow more kinds of Apps so we can have full Xcode.
If we just got 1 and 3 I could use iPad as my only device.