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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
By that logic the bad actor will just explain that he needs you to log into your online bank account so could you please do that and wire some money. Such scams certainly exist but it isn't a relevant attack vector for the sort of end user security that we're talking about here.