Exploring the advantages and pitfalls of utilizing Apple’s common pill for information science work
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A number of years in the past (2021), I published a blog post on how I was using an iPad for my own data science work, so I assumed I’d share a observe up on condition that, sure, I’m nonetheless utilizing an iPad for my very own work right here in September 2024. I ended the 2021 submit with the next observe:
And so we lastly come to the query we’ve all been ready for, and that’s, can we lastly use solely the iPad for information science work? The unlucky reply is finally no. As a result of iPadOS isn’t a standard working system, there are numerous issues I can’t do because of my reliance on command line instruments, Docker pictures, and extra. I’ll have an interest to see if Apple is ever in a position to overcome these hurdles, however they’re sadly nonetheless right here in January 2021.
On the finish of the day, that is nonetheless sadly true. Apple’s iPadOS working system nonetheless inhibits the iPad from being as versatile as computer systems leveraging different working techniques like Home windows, macOS, or Linux.
Nonetheless, the iPad has skilled numerous updates since my authentic submit, each when it comes to iPadOS itself in addition to different software program providers that may be supported on the iPad. Curiously, a lot of the content material from that…
