There is no reason why applications which choose to implement both types of interfaces can't do so. There's also no reason why users should be limited to one type of interface or the other. Both things coexist completely peacefully on Android. You can connect a mouse to your tablet (or even phone) and treat it like a desktop system with shitty storage (practically all phones, it takes a lot of power to have fast storage.)

The primary use case for tablet computers in olden times was data entry and acquisition, for example the military used their magnesium-case gridpads to do inventory.

They are the plaintiff in this case. They're still stuck in the steam age of media technology and royalty mechanisms. Rulings and concepts from the 50ies and 60ies. Super annoying. You don't want to get pissy with them because they have a de-facto government mandated monopoly on collecting royalties. Quasi a semi private semi official body for that exact purpose.

"...but rather their bifurcated OS..."
Apple created the different OSes for different use cases that, Apple thought, required different user interfaces. They sustain it for this reason.

"...but are prohibited from doing them because Apple wants to sell you both an iPad and a Macintosh."
No. Apple maintains different user interfaces for different use cases, it is the touch vs. mouse UIs, the large vs. small screens, that drive the differentiation. I'm not even convinced Apple cares to sell you a Mac anymore, or an iPad. Apple sees both product lines as non-growth.

There is nothing wrong with hating Apple's approach, but claiming it exists for bogus reasons is something else. Apple thought Microsoft's approach was wrong, that integrating touch with mouse or touchpad was wrong. It appears they are trying to reverse course on that, but that's the reason iPads are worthless for doing work. Android tablets are also unsuccessful, tablet computers are limited to vertical applications and casual use.

People forget that tablet computers existed a decade before the iPad, it's good for certain things but creation is NOT one of them.

And neither is good when your hands are full doing other tasks. I'd love to see you do the dishes with one hand while holding your iPad or iPhone with the other, all the while watching videos on a tiny screen rather than paying attention to what you are doing.

These are the standards of iPad users.

SuperKendall told us all how the iPad was the ideal platform for content creation, and he would know because he was a professional photographer! So what's the problem?

The biggest problem with Apple for users probably isn't any of their anticompetitive shit, but rather their bifurcated OS. Software which could be sold on both platforms is commonly only on one or the other. Tablets have enough screen and enough power to do real PC jobs but are prohibited from doing them because Apple wants to sell you both an iPad and a Macintosh. Android-based tablets can run emulators to get around these problems, or run full apps which can run on ARM Linux in Termux or another solution. TBF Google seems to have Apple envy and is aiming to lock down their systems more and not less so maybe they will throw away this advantage.

I'm sorry, simply calling this crack-pipe dream of a "project" "poor design" is an epic understatement. A few examples:

- Building the line would eat up 60% of the worlds entire steel production for decades on end.

- The "chandelier stadium" is so l00ny and physically impossible that it might as well be dreamt up and squiggled on a piece of paper with crayons by a 5-year old. Advisors told the deciders this and they still chose to ignore them.

- The basin planned for the cruise ship docks at the west end would clog up due to lack of flow.

- Basic stuff like sewage treatment isn't even considered, as is way to common with these people I have to say. As with this stupid ultra-high sky-scraper, sewage management is/was intended to be done with trucks. Every day 200 trucks line up to empty the sewage tanks of that skycraper, then drive to Bahrain and simply dump the sewage into the ocean where it then get's carried right back to the coast of Dubai to stink up the beaches and that palm-tree island thing.

I could go on and on.

The list of inane and flat-out retarded decisions surrounding this and other projects is endless. These are infantile pipe-dreams by badly educated Arabian dimwitts with too much money on their hands and too many yay-sayers around them who are too greedy to ask them to stop being silly. Everybody with two or more braincells to rub together knew that this wouldn't go that far if at all anywhere. Perhaps the deciders should take things down a few notches because right now they actually _do_ have enough amounts of money to really make a change for large portions of the population in those regions and get themselves independent from oil. Perhaps let some smart people present some realistic ideas?

No, woke merely means not inert to the racism, misogyny, and white bias built into the culture. Being anti-woke means you would welcome Nazi-style clampdowns on countering that. Stop lying, bad for you, make you believe stupid things and follow leaders who have the attention span of gnat.

Do they also provide build tools and allow customers to build and install their own images?

You have to have punishments to stop the people who are stopped by the threat of them. Those people do exist. We don't think about them much because the existing deterrents work just fine on them.

But you also shouldn't waste your time either believing that they will deter everyone, nor that stronger punishments will deter statistically more people. There are always those who think they won't get caught, and those who don't care.

Somehow authoritarians always forget the carrot. The stick isn't invalid, it just isn't a complete solution, and you shouldn't be rushing to apply it in all situations.

What's stopping you? There's definitely people doing this right now. Around a quarter of the continental US is BLM land. Last I looked pig tags were free.

One just has to accept the Leech of China, a.k.a. the CCP. And you have to accept their boneheaded economic decisions like creating a housing bubble that crashed. The CCP officials are corrupt in a pay-to-play system.

Come to think of it, this latter is also true now of the U.S. I guess for all el Bunko's whining about China, he and his rich friends, now cabinet secretaries, were actually taking notes.

... with ginormous sun-rich empty spaces of mainland that we could solarize at record speed - as China is doing right now with results as shown - in order to get this fossil-fuel eco-turnaround happening ASAP. Wouldn't that be nice, no?