It's got the same processor. Just converge the OSes.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
19 points (100.0% liked)
Apple
800 readers
32 users here now
There are a couple of community rules in addition to the main instance rules.
All posts must be about Apple
Anything goes as long as it’s about Apple. News about other companies and devices is allowed if it directly relates to Apple.
No NSFW content
While lemmy.zip allows NSFW content this community is intended to be a place for all to feel welcome. Any NSFW content will be removed and the user banned.
If you have any comments or suggestions please message one of the moderators.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Will this let you actually download files? Go try to download an STL for example. It won't let you. Which is mindblowing to me.
I just did, downloaded fine. This has been the case for years, not sure what you’re talking about.
A lot of what people think are iOS restrictions haven’t been the case for years. I can download any file from Safari, and put it on a microSD card using a lighting or USB-C to microSD adapter from Files.
You’ve been able to do this stuff for years now, since the launch of the Files app and the addition of a download manager to Safari 8 years ago.
They won’t let you download it to the files app? Can’t say I’m shocked but that’s stupid.
The files app isn't a file explorer. It's another app with the same restrictions as any other.
This is not true. It’s not a full file explorer as it doesn’t give you total access to the system but it can access the shared storage of any app, interface with external drives, and access files downloaded in Safari directly. Which other apps cannot do.
Just Safari?
I use Brave and it lets me choose a download location. Used it yesterday for some tax documents.
Granted, every web browser on iOS is Safari under the hood. I just prefer to use Brave because it syncs my settings and history and bookmarks to and from my PC and other devices.
Other apps would download files to their own shared storage location, so they’re accessible too. Chrome asks you if you want to save to Files when you download, just tested.
Apple is such a crock of shit lol
This is clearly a user error… downloading files works just fine.
Maybe the site you are trying to download from doesn’t offer downloads on the mobile version of their site? Try switching to the desktop version.
Its thingverse, and I'm using firefox. All downloads download as .unknown extension and are useless / only a few KB. But you may be right about user error. Or it's specific to thingverse
The download from Thingiverse works fine on my iPhone and iPad using safari.
I have not tried Firefox.
Hmmm I'll give it another go with safari.
The Mac has gotten less Mac-like over the years, so not sure how this is going to work.
This is a good move, but it needs to come with a user education campaign. It’s amazing how often people assume you can’t do something on iOS/iPadOS when in fact you can.
iOS supports transferring files to and from external media like hard drives & USB keys, Ethernet adapters, video out, multi-monitors, USB-C docks, wired and wireless mice and keyboards (with mouse support across the OS), use all Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft game controllers in games, connect to SMB file shares natively, extract from ZIP in Files natively and 7z, RAR and ISO using Keka.
You can virtualize operating systems with UTM, emulate console systems with a host of emulators like Delta, Folium & Provenance. Run converted game engines with ScummVM (works great with mouse & KB support).
Extensions like SponsorBlock are available on iOS. You can block ads in Apple News and other apps using native DNS blocking in AdGuard. You can re-arrange icons with spaces, delete icons from home without removing the app if you only want them in App Library, and add widgets to the Lock screen.
Those are just a few off the top of my head.
To be fair, some of the things you mentioned (like UTM or add blocking via DNS) could work SOOOOO much better if Apple didn’t go out of their way to make it harder than it needs to be.
They need to just give us macOS on an iPad already and be done with it. But with iPads costing as much as a Windows computer, and people willing to buy a new iPad AND Mac computer, sometimes yearly, I can’t exactly blame Apple for not doing it and instead blurring the lines with mixed features.
Or maybe they are different computing styles and just trying to smash the two together windows 8 style is a bad idea.
They wouldn’t have to go that far. Windows 10 was able to correct a lot of the mistakes of Windows 8 doing that while still allowing for users to have a desktop experience, such as that Start Menu screen you could bring up for a better touch experience.
Users have been begging Apple for a touch screen Mac before the iPad with companies even making touch screen MacBooks as well as touch screen peripherals. Especially with a lot of Mac users being artists or developers who would benefit from having touch abilities natively in macOS.
The demand is there. But the real reason Apple won’t is because it’ll cut into their profits.