The iPad needs a "MacOS" app that loads up the full native desktop compute experience.

On the iOS side the iPad needs to support multiple user profiles by default and not just when set up under MDM. It's insane that this is a fully baked and shipping feature that's so frequently requested but is simply withheld.

Apple are being assholes about these obvious features because the convergence and device sharing cut into sales of multiple devices. How is buying 5 different devices supposed to be "green" when you could just run everything on a single device?

Char coal, yes. Mined coal isn't that ancient.

The "Alternative Marketplaces" that are already in Apple's approval queue to launch imminently in the EU are filled with emulators.

The problem here is that the open app ecosystem available to the EU creates a massive disparity between the capabilities of the platform there vs everywhere else in the world. The headlines about emulators coming to EU iPhones have been going for a few weeks now. If you can run emulators in Europe but not in the US, users simply are not going to stand for it.

I was going to say the Apple is about to have their Lunch eaten, but in the context of gradeschool cafeteria analogies, it's really more like they are the bully and they finally got their nose punched in by the little scrawny kid.. only that kid was the EU and maybe not so scrawny. Keep it up!

Nah I prefer to send more money to Mr Bone Saw.

> When is it time to start shorting Apple?

If you are asking when they will upset their customers enough that it affects their bottom line, the answer is probably never. It's not as if the issue today is any different than when it arose in 2007.

The general public is so wantonly underinformed that one could argue they aren't even qualified to make a rational assessment of the situation.

It is really a the-inmates-are-running-the-asylum / everyone-is-an-expert situation that is becoming all too common these days.

You are right, and it is, so long as you have hacked Windows Subsystem for Android to have the Google Play Store support. Unfortunately without it, it's not at all surprising that the product is dead on the vine despite working really great!

Guy deserves 100 years for being stupid rich and his choices of sex partners.

They still do those things; Canva is the most recent company to build an empire on the same shit. The only difference is that Publisher prints it out and Canva spits it directly into the social media firehose. Well, I guess the other difference is that Publisher isnt a shitty web app. So long, Publisher, and thanks for all the brochures.