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Apple definitely does not want bad reviews on their iPads because the VMs they are selling are crashing more often than their other offerings. Any product Apple sells for actual $ would have meet Apple’s standards of support and customer service, or they would be deteriorating their Goodwill.

Except their charging cables. Apple actively trades goodwill for those margins.




> the VMs they are selling are crashing

VMs would be a subset of existing iOS/macOS. VMs are more uniform targets than bare-metal, less likely to crash.

Think Microsoft CAL (client access license) paper entitlements.

Or papal certificates of indulgence, https://theconversation.com/the-catholic-view-on-indulgences...

Software margins with iPad-as-DRM-dongle, investors would rejoice! Broadcom and Qualcomm would be envious.


You do realize that Apple sells Macs, right?


While accurate, this misses the point. The chip is very similar to that in the Mac and it’s frustrating to have Apple prevent it being used more fully.


I agree. But this has nothing to do with Macs crashing more often.




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