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As for "custom bespoke software," why would you try to run that on an iPad in the first place? …

… As for "custom bespoke software," why would you try to run that on an iPad in the first place? My company has plenty custom in-house programs, but I don't complain that they won't run on a toaster, or a Commodore 64, or a Cray. That's like saying you won't buy a speedboat because it can't carry all the iron ore that your company's dump truck can haul. It just makes no sense.

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or a terminal or a decent ide or an ability to script anything. lots of companies rely on custom bespoke software made by an employee who got fed up by something, basically no possibility of doing that on an ipad, etc etc. but sure, just call me an NPC, you’re so unique and good at noticing patterns and not rude

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Prompt lets you log into some other computer and run programs there, not run programs on your iPad. Hell, I used it to fix a production bug from my phone in like 2013.

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It's wild to me the levels someone will go to defend a corporation's right to lock away the ability to install anything the user wants. In a perfect (from their pov) world Apple would prefer the internet didn't even exist, that way they could put up a walled garden AppleNet and take 30% of everything there too. I chose your comment to respond to but there's a handful of you going to war in the comments, it's just wild to me.

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