Ipad is a great device. It can do so many things, but I am failing to do things which I want to do.
I want to make my iPad as a development environment. I want to be able to work on iPad as I would do on a computer. Multitasking is a challenge, I am fine to ignore that. A single screen provides much focus still we need to move across apps to get some context or information about the work we are doing.
There are so many things which simply doesn’t work on iPad. Either there are no apps build for them, or they are so limited.
I have a 9 Inch iPad 2 from 2018. It can use Apple pencil for scribling.
I can’t do any web development or python development on my iPad. I cannot run a decent editor on iPad, I am left with the likes of Jetpack for WordPress for blogging and Obsidian for writing codes, which i can save in my github.
I like the fact that there is one note which is available and accessible over all the devices, which is such a relief.
One possible solution is to install a-shell or i-sh(32 bit) to do some sensible work and most of the time I found it very slow.
I want to run gnucash on my iPad for accounting. Gnucash has its own limitation.
I tried to create a web server at my home. The webserver itself crashes so many times due to frequent power failures. I am left with adopting to a cloud based model.
I tried to search on web to no avail, finding solution to install Linux on iPad or any other tool which can help me to do my work.
There is a long hackernews post on why iPad is the way it is. What I understood from the post is its mainly Apple’s product strategy, which is keeping iPad the way it is.
I will not go into much details – feel free to scroll through the discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716799
In case you found a solution to do anything interesting on iPad do share in comments. I would be happy to read and try the same out.