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Java Support for iPad/iOS

I know this is a long-running question/suggestion but I wanted to provide my own use case. I have an iPad Air 2 right now, which I use for mostly personal content and limited work content. I am definitely interested in going to the 12.9-inch Pro since it has a great deal more real estate and has been marketed as the iPad that can replace my laptop. iPad is incredibly close to achieving this vision for me but with one glaring exception: a good bit of my work is dependent on creating HTML content using a Java plug-in. Clearly, iOS and Safari has never supported Java and other plug-ins in Safari for iOS and it doesn't look like there are plans to do so in iOS 10. If you really want me to consider iPad over something akin to a Surface Pro 4 or any traditional PC/laptop, you have to give me all of the functionality I need on top of everything I know iPad can do. It's Apple so I know you're capable of doing it. Hopefully, one day you choose to act on it. Thanks.

iPad Air, iOS 9.3.3

Posted on Aug 4, 2016 10:00 AM

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Posted on Jan 2, 2018 11:37 AM

You can install Java on Macs, but not iOS devices. Primarily because having a Java Virtual Machine on any computer is an open door to hackers around the world. You will get all kinds of warnings installing Java on a Mac, but it will let you.

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