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- > Magic Keyboard is not required, but is recommended for the best experience. If you don't have a Magic Keyboard, you can use the touchscreen and virtual keyboard instead.
You know, you can just use the iPad as a separate display for macOS. Once I tried this, I realized it doesn’t make sense to use menus and windows without the mouse, and then you’ve invented…laptops.
by hyperhello - Sure. But a more compact one. One you can easily take with you and use as an iPad. And when you want to work properly, you just connect the usb cable at your desk for the monitor and keyboard
No need to drag the keyboard with you all the time. And it’s kind of nice to have a touch screen.
by jbverschoor - Yeah, the problem is that Apple doesn't acknowledge the convenience of Android/Windows ecosystem of 2-1 devices, as it would hurt their laptop sales.
So the community comes up with gimmicks like these.
Notice also how Macs lack touchscreens or data modems, available on the other ecosystems for at least a decade now.
by pjmlp - > Supporting iPadOS 16.4 or later presents additional challenges because Hypervisor support was removed from the iPadOS XNU kernel
Why would they do that? It seems to have prevented UTM (there's a linked tweet[0].)
They used to have a policy of no emulators, I think. But if they shipped a hypervisor why remove it?
Every time I see what people achieve when jailbreaking, it makes me think that nothing would be healthier than forcing iOS to be unlocked and even fully open source.
by vintagedave - ipad os 26 has some opportunity, some research(google "ios26-hypervisor-research") indicates that apple add hypervisor back at ios/ipados 26, since latest security features relies on itby hujk