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I love my iPad. Compared to windows at work it's way more reliable and polished. I've been shifting over my computer interaction to the iPad with good results and improvements in convenience, independence and efficiency. Migrating rss, mail, web browsing and content consummation has been successful. I too started using the calendar, to do list and notes app to great effect.

Only programming I wasn't able to change yet. An attempt was made with a ssh app, but it wasn't able to compete with a proper ide/text editor yet. For unix as an ide fans it would be enough though. I want to learn that, but sadly I still have to write native apps, though I'll change that when I have the chance.

The best thing about iPadOS is control. It feels so relaxing not having to worry about discord scanning all your processes and files just because you want to chat with your friends. I hope they'll never go back to allowing unsigned code.

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> The best thing about iPadOS is control. It feels so relaxing not having to worry about discord scanning all your processes and files just because you want to chat with your friends. I hope they'll never go back to allowing unsigned code.

It felt like a loss of control when I learned recently that facebook uses a loophole to exchange data with Whatsapp... https://medium.com/@gzanon/no-end-to-end-encryption-does-not...

>It felt like a loss of control when I learned recently that facebook uses a loophole to exchange data with Whatsapp... https://medium.com/@gzanon/no-end-to-end-encryption-does-not....

That's not what the article is saying - the linked article says that there may be a way for Facebook to do this, but there is no proof that they are. That still leaves room to say that maybe there should be user controls against these app extensions, though.

We are obligated to use iPads for external colleagues and it is a catastrophe for productivity. There are some nice apps but everything is restricted. Well, our CRM and ERP system use Windows, but even without that the iPads remain a toy for meetings.

Chatting with friends is ok though. But the ergonomy is still crap.

I very much like the sandboxing of apps and the control I have over what they can access (e.g. location, contacts, photos). It also helps contain any security bugs in apps. But this seems orthogonal to allowing unsigned code. You could just as easily run an unsigned app in the same sandbox.

So personally, I'd like to keep that model - but I'd like to be able to load my own apps (within appropriate sandboxes).

To address some of the issues I've seen discussed here, I'd also like to see the ability to create a "volume" (a shared directory tree) and explicitly grant access to a volume to a subset of apps. (E.g. keep all of you document workflow in a volume and expose it to your TeX tools and git tools, but Uber/Facebook doesn't get to touch it.) I this is already addressed in OSX sandboxing - I believe you can grant access to a directory tree to a sandbox app via the open file dialog.

> The best thing about iPadOS is control.

Are you serious? It is not about control. It is about only Apple can "control". You and your software cannot "control" anything.

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