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iPad Pro Can I use a Windows App on my iPad Pro ?
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Unless there is an iOS-hosted app, you can't. The best you could do would be a remote login to a Windows device with RDP, Jump Desktop, etc.
Like others said, this can't be done natively so your forced to remote into your windows machine. Either that or go with something like Windows 365 that MS just launched. Another thread had a similar question so Ill add my video link of my test of Windows 365 running on my iPad. Pretty impressive and I think Im gonna hold onto this cloud pc so that I have this ability now from my iPad at all times.
I haven't watched the video, but to be honest I don't think this solution is worth for most people given the price. In the long run, it's much cheaper to use a Windows device with a good remote desktop app like Jump desktop.
I have been using Windows on my iPads for years and since the magic keyboard arrive the experience has been pushed to another level. Now that I have a M1 Mac mini I tend to use that more often to remote into but I still remote quite a bit into Windows for work, including at home. Given the prices in around one year you have paid a similarly specced Windows PC in most cases.... (assuming you don't have one already...)
I agree with you on that a bit. My cloud pc is a bit of money but it’s worth it to me given how much power I have in that pc and what I do professionally. I write it all off at the end of the year.
I write off things too, including hardware depreciation... For instance I'll write off the $1000 mac mini I just bought over a couple of years, just like a wrote off my desktop Windows PC years ago... And every laptop since then... Again regardless of the power you can always remote into just as powerful real hardware that you own for cheaper (including energy costs). Again I am talking long term, not for a couple of months. Over the long term, I have the impression it's more of a psychological thing than a real benefit, unless it's deployed for a whole corporation and in that case I can see some advantages.
I might see some arguments for people leaving in tiny spaces or people not having a fixed home... Those are the main arguments I can think of, not writing off an expense, since you can write off hardware too...