Originally Posted by
crewmeal
As an Apple user what I can't understand is why iPads are banned and yet the iPhone 6/7 plus is allowed. The difference in screen size is about 2 inches if you have an iPad mini. Looking at my 9.7inch iPad and comparing both, they are sealed units and both are as thin as each other.
Would someone from the State Dept/MI5 please elaborate.
What's the difference in actual computing power between a phone and a good tablet these days? I'm assuming that a complex program would require a laptop or at least an iPad/Windows tablet, rather than something running Android?