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I don't see them as computers. They're less convenient than smartphones and less useful than laptops. They have uses as paper/book/clipboard replacements, but that's it.

I don't really see tablets as anything more than just digital paper and  less clunky video players that you had from the early 2000s.

>>16332 (OP) 
They're not personal computers but novelty consumer items for tech illiterates that are locked down actively preventing freedom for the user. When you buy one of these devices you buy and contribute to the idea of a portable jail.

They do not want a computer revolution to happen(unix/linux) with these handheld devices while depriving users of the ability to read write and modify code on a regular basis.

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>>16335
Instead of tablets, back in the day we had these. You could program them, and some even had quality keyboards. Of course you could carry a laptop but those were much bigger/heavier and used more battery power.
The main problem is the web. It's totally stupid nowadays, because everyone assumes you have the latest version of Chrome or Firefox. When they designed the standards, they never bothered to make a fallback for weaker systems or text browsers. They could have built this into the standard, but they either don't give a shit, or they do it on purpose to be sure everyone is running vulnerable systems running on bloatware.

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>>16335
>locked down actively preventing freedom for the user
>depriving users of the ability to read write and modify code
Strongly agree. They're oversized smartphones with all the surveillance cancer that comes with those. They'd be convenient power efficient computers if they weren't artificially locked down for the sole purpose of surveillance.

I could put up with the babby OS, but not with these motherfuckers stealing every bit of information, system logs, app data backups, what apps you open, file metadata, what you do on the device, how often you turn on the fucking flashlight. Not only do they lock the bootloader, Apple locks userspace applications, Jewgle would too if they could, the day will come when APK is app store only.

Proprietary locked down shitfest that Microsoft could only dream of.

>>16332 (OP) 
I find that tablets are pretty terrible at managing their RAM compared to smartphones and desktops/laptops of similar specifications, OOM killing tasks much more often, making them less viable as desktop/laptop replacements honestly.

Anyone else experience this with them? It makes multitasking a pain.

>>16362
This is more an Android problem:
>programs are written in java
>programs are designed to be able to be killed at any time
https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/process-lifecycle
<application process's lifetime isn't directly controlled by the application itself. Instead, it is determined by the system through a combination of the parts of the application that the system knows are running, how important these things are to the user, and how much overall memory is available in the system.
This means incorrectly coded programs can hog ram, or simply gets killed if not aggressively attention seeking enough.

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>>16366
Actually it's more of a you don't own the device you paid for problem. A lot of us would install gentoo and be happy with our 1-2 GB memory footprint, enjoying nothing getting killed ever. The board and display are sitting right there, fully able to run any code. That is the natural state of hardware. ((( Corporations ))) go out of their way to employ people whose job is coming up with ways to block that.

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Apple's changes to iPadOS 26 might genuinely make it a MacBook replacement for a lot more people than before.

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>>16367
If the EU wanted to fuck with the US and China, they would make it mandatory to unlock the bootloader of a goyphone, and make the device tree public. In a worst case scenario they could make it mandatory once the device stops receiving official software updates, that would be still enough to stop a whole lot of people from buying a new one every few years. Especially if they mandated that banks must make their apps OS neutral to a certain degree.
>>16402
What's a MacBook?

>>16404
As much as people make fun of that commercial, with iPadOS 26 it's sort of coming true, many people's use cases will be more than satisfied by the iPad alone, it's crazy to see them finally pull it off.