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>>kaladi+(OP)
Hopefully AOSP Pixel device support is merely delayed, not ended, since Pixel is the only way to get Debian Linux ("Terminal") VM + desktop mode support, >>43973395 .

With Apple's ongoing refusal to enable VM/JIT support on iOS and iPad, Google Pixel + GrapheneOS + Debian is a very competitive 2025 offering.

>>transp+N4
This is my biggest iPad gripe. I understand the security, but just make it a new "entitlement" that is only given to UTM, Parallels and VMWare fusion. Or make it a "developer mode" that you can only enable if you pay $99 a year. I'd be fine with that, but the whole iPad is unusable for any kind of software development and I'd love to be able to travel with just an iPad because for everything else I do while I'm traveling (watching videos, reading, browsing, writing, drawing) the iPad is great and I don't have to lug two devices around.

>>terhec+i6
If it was really about security (in the sense of that which benefits the end user) they'd just stick it behind a toggle and be done with it. I just think it's important to call out the misalignment - security can refer to the interests of the end user, or alternatively to the vendor. The ambiguity is convenient for PR statements.

>>fc417f+39
We’ve decades of examples of simple toggles not working. Bad actors will just explain to the target the necessity of switching it on.

>>misnom+Wb
Put it in the bootloader then.

The pretence that Apple makes these things for security reasons and there's absolutely no way in the world to make it possible is a bit ridiculous.

>>jampek+ge
Apple shipped hypervisor support back in iOS 16, then removed it!

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/07/25/0900

>>transp+Gf
This is a nice post of things that bothers me in the Apple ecosystem: arbitrary limitation after arbitrary limitation.

I didn't know about the Apple Watch couldn't pair with an iPad, and I don't think even an Apple fanboy could make an excuse for that one.