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Model Y guy makes it sound like he was more of a key person, though.
While it's easy to shit on such a strategy, that does in-fact make him a great CEO.
It's not like he hasn't done such things before.
Cheaters currently use entirely second PCs, or other extremely complicated methods of cheating, and are still getting caught.
Security isn't "for nothing", you make it as expensive as possible for cheaters/adversaries to win, and then keep raising the bar, to make the majority of users safe and secure.
It is designed to, though. That's the thing. The line is arbitrarily drawn at not getting CLI/root access to your iPad.
His point is that over the years, Apple has blurred that line a lot. You can use keyboards and mice. You can do all your daily computing on an iPad - email, spreadsheets, YouTube, whatever.
But it's still locked down, for whatever reason, despite being a perfectly capable computer that doesn't necessarily need to be.
It's honestly really obvious what he's saying. iPads have changed over the last 5 or so years, and people on HN clearly haven't used one in a while. The author isn't _wrong_.
Apple spends all this effort to blur the lines between personal computer and a device you can compute on, and it mildly tricks users who don't necessarily realise there's a difference between the computer and the tablet, especially amongst younger generations who grew up on tablets ("iPad kids").
Once you get over that hurdle, collaborating on targets is pretty common. Made $10k USD last month collaborating with someone in another country, in fact.