351–360 of 805 posts
I don't want the thinnest iPad of all times, or "2x faster graphics", I want same frickin' device with at least twice as long battery life!
Might just block the usb-c, but I thank that would be fine. If you need tho port you can run from the internal battery for a while or get an adapter with power-through for a more permanent setup
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft is preparing the move to ARM too. I'd be really interested how the performance will be. The Intel Mobile Processor (i7 + M7) felt really slow before the eight generation and still used a lot of power (at least in the Lenovo and HP Business notebooks).
Is Microsoft preparing an x86 emulation layer for their ARM-based OS? Because as the past has proven, nobody wants to buy a Windows PC that can't run Windows software. Unfortunately, it's almost all been compiled to run on x86. Or are they still betting on moving everything to UWP?
Benchmarks from the first device generation: https://www.techspot.com/review/1599-windows-on-arm-performa...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
iPad Pro has 4 GB of RAM. There are Macs with that much RAM that can run Xcode.
But iOS doesn't have a concept of swap like a traditional PC OS like macOS or Windows does, does it?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve is rolling over in his grave on this.
People have been saying this since the day after Steve died... Yet somehow Apple still thrives.
In other words, apple became boring, or at least has been boring for a while now.
I mean, the whole computer market is boring (tablets, phones, laptops, etc; all the same shit YoY), but its kind of hard to think that current-apple is going to break that trend, in the same way you wouldn't expect IBM or Xerox to. Don't know of any startups doing anything terribly interesting in the space, with any real chance of success.
Hell, at this point Microsoft might be the likeliest candidate: at least they're doing something with stuff like stupidly big conference room screens and maybe Hololens will do something cool.
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…
Isn't that a good thing? For example, wouldn't it be great if all web apps were optimized for specs lower than the machines we use?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 ba…
The surface pen already magnetically attaches to the surface, this would just give that attachment another purpose.
> Swapping it out when it dies seems simpler than remembering to charge it regularly.
You don't have to remember anything, you just "redock" the stylus when you're done using it and it will charge.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It probably won't though I have been screwed a couple times when my USB power brick tried to charge itself off my phone because I hadn't pushed the button to switch the port from drawing power to delivering power. Is there some sort of protocol in USB-C for two devices with batteries to negotiate which should charge the other. Though I imagine the iPad could just refuse to deliver the high power states/not have the c…
It works for Macbook to Macbook charging, so why wouldn't it work with the iPad? Note that your device doesn't have to provide the requested power if it is unable to, it can provide less.
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.