That was not my intention at all (to have multiple accounts on the same conversation). I knew not to upvote myself or downvote a reply - which I did not do.
But back to the point, i always thought of custom bespoke enterprise apps were ones that usually ignored the Mac and especially ARM Macs.
Fair point - but a niche case I don’t see Apple going out of their way to support.
Before iPad OS 26 and real windows, I would have thought that the iPad would be frustrating even for mainstream office work. I could definitely see myself using my wife’s iPad 13 Air now full time - she does except for development tasks.
My old A12 iPad Air fromn 2019 runs iOS 26 halfway decently even with only 3GB RAM.
And Apple has never really cared about “the enterprise”
No worries, I figured you didn't mean anything by it I just didn't want you to end up in a surprise problem one day over something silly.
It always seems niche when talking about examples of stuff that can't be done. Prior to iPadOS 26 people would tell me I just didn't understand what an iPad wasn't supposed to have windowing similar to macOS too, but it was hard to say it wasn't a niche use case when the old way discouraged users who wanted that from using the platform.
I agree Apple doesn't typically target Enterprise directly, but they do support them. They maintain things like MDM support across all products, Apple Business Manager, and AppleCare for Enterprise. The big difference between supporting those kinds of use cases and this is that these enable more Apple products to be sold, while enabling iPadOS to do MacBook like things enables fewer and cheaper devices to be sold. I don't actually expect Apple to go down this path for that reason, but I still wish they would.
The same is still somewhat true of some consumer use cases like games they already own on macOS or peripheral support not in iPadOS, but Apple has given a little over the years in this regard (e.g. allowing 1 external monitor, allowing certain peripherals and dock types, adding decent windowing support). Of course, Apple's goal in this remains to align with what feature set will make them the most money, not what feature set people would use, the two things just align slightly better in the consumer space than the enterprise space.
But a person could still dream their phone/iPad more powerful than most people's laptops could take the role of one when plugged in, even if it wouldn't make Apple more money.
But back to the point, i always thought of custom bespoke enterprise apps were ones that usually ignored the Mac and especially ARM Macs.
Fair point - but a niche case I don’t see Apple going out of their way to support.
Before iPad OS 26 and real windows, I would have thought that the iPad would be frustrating even for mainstream office work. I could definitely see myself using my wife’s iPad 13 Air now full time - she does except for development tasks.
My old A12 iPad Air fromn 2019 runs iOS 26 halfway decently even with only 3GB RAM.
And Apple has never really cared about “the enterprise”