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Re: iPad Pro

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Post by eddieroger »

jungturk wrote: post #235
m_mueller wrote: post #57

One thing I was missing from the presentation: Can it finally connect both a keyboard and a pencil, i.e. does it have magnets on both sides?

The keyboard looks to attach the the left side in these pics: https://www.apple.com/smart-keyboard/ While "the new Apple Pencil starts charging when you place the flat part on the right side of your iPad Pro." from: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ So it looks like the answer is yes.

There was a passing screenshot in the video with both used at the same time. This was my biggest question towards the end, and I wish I'd screenshotted when I saw it. But they do look to both work together, and glad the documentation lines up with that.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by saagarjha »

appleiigs wrote: post #238
adamweld wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not the only one. I also like a bit of a bezel or "chin" on my phones, because it makes holding the device with one hand for e.g. taking photos much more secure.

My 75 year old mom has real trouble trying to use her ipad mini, especially with taking pictures. Inevitably the left hand trying to hold the ipad has a thumb on the touch screen. Then when she tries to do anything else with right hand it is registered as a pinch. She also had a career in graphic design and now teaches oil/acrylic painting. I know from her, the art world likes frames. A bezel is not a bad thing.

iOS is generally supposed to ignore touches on the edge of the screen, but it doesn't always work. I guess this is one case where it isn't really functioning as expected.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by dpark »

vxNsr wrote: post #7
minimaxir wrote: post #3

Very impressive demos, but unfortunately the number of apps that can make full use of the increased power is still limited. A common complaint I saw during the presentation was the emphasis of the A12X for gaming, but Apple is still very bad at incentivizing developers to make games with premium experiences and prices (to say nothing of the lack of an official gaming controller!) Also, the new Apple Pencil will only…

> Also, the new Apple Pencil will only work with the new iPads; it's not compatible with previous Pros: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ Because the older pros don't have a way to charge it. Which is to me another one of those ingenious but now obvious design choices, I know the sGNote series has "wireless" charging for their stylus, but it needs to go into the device to be charged, this is so much cooler because…

> Which is to me another one of those ingenious but now obvious design choices ... I wish that Microsoft had thought of this for the surface pen.

I'm kind of glad they didn't. A pen magnetically attached will likely pop off when you put the tablet in your bag. It's a nice place to dock the pen when you're using the tablet, but poor place to store it in a bag.

People report up to a year of life with the Surface Pen battery. Swapping it out when it dies seems simpler than remembering to charge it regularly.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by post_break »

csomar wrote: post #250
post_break wrote: post #244

This is a new for apple. My iPad Pro 10.5 is continuing to appreciate, instead of depreciate. They keep raising the price. Fist from $879 to $899. Now it's $929. What is going on at Apple where older products cost more? https://imgur.com/a/JB7fR4a

They have the same name but are you sure they are the same spec?

They are exactly the same.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by amiga-workbench »

theshrike79 wrote: post #236
amiga-workbench wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad somebody else feels this way, when my Amiga 1200 runs smoother than most modern computers you know something has gone horribly wrong.

Yes, my washing machine also runs completely smoothly. One turn of the dial and it has selected the correct program without any lag! Apples and Oranges.

I just had my whole Mac lock up after beginning the extraction of a xip archive. It is absolutely unacceptable for the UI to stop responding no matter how much load my computer is under.

My Amiga never did this because the whole user interface was interrupt driven, it wasn't possible for any of the bloated trash running to deem itself more important.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by s3r3nity »

I'm really impressed that they made a number of environmental friendly additions, though they haven't been played up as much:

- LED display is mercury-free - No arsenic - No BFR or PVC etc.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by zeroname »

tyingq wrote: post #41

"The new Liquid Retina display goes from edge to edge" I've never owned an iPad, perhaps I'm missing something here. How does the above statement reconcile with the pictures I see on the page where there's clearly a black bezel? Do they just mean there's not an area at the bottom with a physical button?

It isn't liquid either. False advertising!

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by eddieroger »

saagarjha wrote: post #213
dexterbt1 wrote: post #119

Is this running macOS, 'coz I'm seeing a dock!

iOS has had a dock since iOS 11.

iPhoneOS has had a dock since version 1. They've just expanded what it can do. And they used to even push that iOS and OSX (at the time) shared the same base, but they've backed off that pretty hard despite it remaining true - Darwin underneath.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by saagarjha »

neolefty wrote: post #165
Pulcinella wrote: post #145

This is a repost of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338048 I was hoping we would see XCode for the iPad. The Swift Playgrounds app really does not cut it.The Swift Playgrounds app really hasn’t gotten any love[1] since it was first introduced. You can actually import UIKit and the other frameworks and compile them on the iPad but this is pretty much undocumentated. The preview views are tremendously buggy (re…

I can't imagine XCode could run in the RAM available on an iPad — maybe rework it to do the heavy lifting in the cloud?

iPad Pro has 4 GB of RAM. There are Macs with that much RAM that can run Xcode.
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