The downside is that it’s not as feature packed because they’re literally reinventing a new computer UI from the ground up. The iPad really is a paradigm shift. MacOS has been around for 40 years. IPadOS only 10. It takes time.
* I can't send a picture from Android to iPad OS when I don't have internet: iPad can't receive images over Bluetooth.
* I can't send videos from my Windows10 to the iPad with a simple USB cable without installing iTunes or some other bloated software that I don't (or shouldn't) need. I am not sure how to easily send +100GBs of video otherwise (suggestions appreciated).
It is so sad that this hostile lack of features are an intended thing for such an expensive and "advanced" device, and that my only hope is that EU will threaten with some anti-competitive fine for Apple to do the sane things that would benefit consumers.
Christ. We were sharing images over Bluetooth between mobile phones when I was a teenager in about 2005.
That’s why people share their pictures on WhatsApp, Snapchat or whatever.
Apple isn’t going to implement a service if the experience sucks, they’ll implement an alternative that doesn’t suck. Sometimes it’s limited to their ecosystem and sometimes it isn’t. If you don’t like it, use one of the alternatives.
There’s an app for that ;)
> I can't send videos from my Windows10 to the iPad with a simple USB cable without installing iTunes or some other bloated software
There’s simple apps for that too ;)
In the same amount of time it took you type up this comment you could’ve found solutions using your favorite search engine.
Here’s a “free” search term to try:
‘copying videos to ipad without itunes’
My specific case was that I didn't have access to internet at that moment, but I hoped that I could transfer with Bluetooth just like I did many years ago with simpler devices.
> In the same amount of time it took you type up this comment you could’ve found solutions using your favorite search engine.
>Here’s a “free” search term to try:
>‘copying videos to ipad without itunes’
I remember trying and not finding anything meaningful. I will for sure try again if you're saying there are ways, but just telling me to search online instead of giving some solution brings me back to the same starting point that I was the first time I tried.
If you want that kind of experience, get an Android tablet. Or a Surface tablet. You can, because there is competition.
However, similar to how EU started requiring all smartphones to have the same connector, I would be nice if all smartphones / tables / "generic media devices" were required to support simple file transfer via cable with major OS, without requiring additional vendor specific software.
It's possible that I'm unaware of technical aspects of storage systems today that would make this impossible, but I'd be happy to learn more about this.
I also was completely unaware that iPad didn't allow for such simple file transfers when I bought it, nor the Bluetooth limitation. I don't know up to which point is the user expected to verify basic features that have been widely available for decades before buying a product because the vendor decided not to add it.
I could develop software on it, but Apple won't let me run arbitrary code on it, even in a sandbox. I get why, and I really appreciate that for everything else I would use it for, but even getting a Linux container running similar to ChromeOS would be something.
It's a surprisingly pleasant experience with the magic keyboard.
Apart from purely political/commercial reasons, I don't see why.
Sandbox and App Store are mutually exclusive reasons for this situation.
Option A: you have good security architecture, so running arbitrary code is safe because all the data is well-isolated and programs cannot mess with each other's data. There is no need to have humans reviewing apps, apart from optional parental controls that people may opt into.
Option B: you don't have good security, so you need to micro-manage app publication and have ability to revoke them, in case an exploit is discovered.
Also, for a development machine, when you run arbitrary 3rd party open source dependencies, build scripts etc, you really want iPad-like security model where each project lives in its own sandbox. But the Unix permission system is an unusable mess, so even if you put your project in a container, your build script can still push to git repo and do other fun stuff outside build folder.
A sandbox can not protect against things like user tracking or crypto mining and can give no guarantees about what an app is going to do with the private data you are entrusting to it.