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Comment by CrimsonCape

13 hours ago

Also, remember guys, you can't have a shell on iphone because. Nor a text editor. Because. ssh into your iphone? hah. These are all software issues.

iSH is a shell for iOS, it has all the common shell tools and you can ssh into it.

A shell is not useful on a touch screen device.

iOS comes with a text editor built in. Memo.

Ssh server doesn't make sense for an iPhone. How would that even work? It wouldn't be able to do anything or be a worse experience than something properly designed for the user rather than trying to force a 50 year old computing model onto a phone.

  • You say this matter of factly and yet I've seen countless people talk about using termux more than a desktop shell.

    Maybe iPhone is different but most phones you can connect a keyboard to, making the shell pretty usable. Not my cup of tea but I have tried it. I'm still holding out on the dream that a good Linux phone might exist one day.

  • A shell is perfectly useful on a touchscreen device.

    > a 50 year old computing model onto a phone

    What? Do you think command lines are based on the lambda calculus or something?