> Because it's not very good mouse support. It's basically a simulated finger.
All I want for them to do is allow third party applications to support real mice in the way that you'd expect a real mouse to behave. The killer app would be remote desktop. I understand that there's literally one model of mouse that works with one specific remote desktop app, but I don't want that, I want to use my own mouse.
I've always thought the idea of programming on an iPad with a keyboard + mouse would be cool, but now it is very apparent that if that idea has any chance of working, it would pretty much be centered around using the iPad solely as a remote desktop tool.
I would also imagine the latency that comes with that would be annoying.
I wonder if Apple will ever do what Microsoft did with the surface and just put full blown Mac OS on it. I'm going to guess no due to this iPadOS with swipey gestures thing.
That's basically what the Surface is, and the vast majority of people who own them use them as laptops. At that point, why not just use a laptop?
I've done a fair amount of dev work on the iPad, if you have a good SFTP friendly editor like Coda, you can do development work on a remote server, but ultimately you are tied to that server for a build environment. It works fairly well, but since remote shells tend to disconnect in the background it can be frustrating to build stuff.
All I want for them to do is allow third party applications to support real mice in the way that you'd expect a real mouse to behave. The killer app would be remote desktop. I understand that there's literally one model of mouse that works with one specific remote desktop app, but I don't want that, I want to use my own mouse.