Apple's iPadOS 19 at WWDC is rumored to be a more macOS-like update, with boosts to multitasking and productivity potentially making the tablet even more of a workhorse.
This is a good move, but it needs to come with a user education campaign. It’s amazing how often people assume you can’t do something on iOS/iPadOS when in fact you can.
iOS supports transferring files to and from external media like hard drives & USB keys, Ethernet adapters, video out, multi-monitors, USB-C docks, wired and wireless mice and keyboards (with mouse support across the OS), use all Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft game controllers in games, connect to SMB file shares natively, extract from ZIP in Files natively and 7z, RAR and ISO using Keka.
You can virtualize operating systems with UTM, emulate console systems with a host of emulators like Delta, Folium & Provenance. Run converted game engines with ScummVM (works great with mouse & KB support).
Extensions like SponsorBlock are available on iOS. You can block ads in Apple News and other apps using native DNS blocking in AdGuard. You can re-arrange icons with spaces, delete icons from home without removing the app if you only want them in App Library, and add widgets to the Lock screen.
To be fair, some of the things you mentioned (like UTM or add blocking via DNS) could work SOOOOO much better if Apple didn’t go out of their way to make it harder than it needs to be.
This is a good move, but it needs to come with a user education campaign. It’s amazing how often people assume you can’t do something on iOS/iPadOS when in fact you can.
iOS supports transferring files to and from external media like hard drives & USB keys, Ethernet adapters, video out, multi-monitors, USB-C docks, wired and wireless mice and keyboards (with mouse support across the OS), use all Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft game controllers in games, connect to SMB file shares natively, extract from ZIP in Files natively and 7z, RAR and ISO using Keka.
You can virtualize operating systems with UTM, emulate console systems with a host of emulators like Delta, Folium & Provenance. Run converted game engines with ScummVM (works great with mouse & KB support).
Extensions like SponsorBlock are available on iOS. You can block ads in Apple News and other apps using native DNS blocking in AdGuard. You can re-arrange icons with spaces, delete icons from home without removing the app if you only want them in App Library, and add widgets to the Lock screen.
Those are just a few off the top of my head.
To be fair, some of the things you mentioned (like UTM or add blocking via DNS) could work SOOOOO much better if Apple didn’t go out of their way to make it harder than it needs to be.