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Re: iPad Pro

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The person who decided to make this scroll sideways instead of down when you scroll down, and not to scroll sideways when you scroll sideways should be put in stocks in the town square.

I think it's kind of cool. /dissenting-opinion

Novelty and breaking expectations regarding established HCI conventions are different sides of the same coin, I guess.

Re: iPad Pro

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post #18

The person who decided to make this scroll sideways instead of down when you scroll down, and not to scroll sideways when you scroll sideways should be put in stocks in the town square.

It is super lägg to scroll as well. The scrolling is bad and the website is too heavy to scroll properly on my iPad pro 9.7 with Safari. I guess they don't dogfood their stuff after the IOS12 release.

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From the keynote, Cook claimed the new A12X Bionic[1] is faster than 92% of portable PCs[2] (in English, laptops, Surfaces) sold in the past year, including some i7 models. - 8 core CPU (4 low and 4 high power cores) - 7 core GPU - HEVC encoding/decoding - Neural Engine (they haven't made any comparisons to the A12 sans X neural engine, so at this point I think it's the same) - Audio DSP, Storage controller, Image Si…

The hardware specs of the new iPad Pro read like the dream mobile machine. If only there were not too many software limitations in iOS which would prevent it to replace a laptop for many tasks, it could take over the laptop space in no time. - Files is way too limited. It should be possible to exchange the system supported data types between all apps via files. You can't even add a audio track to Music or a video fil…

Sounds like you just want an A-Series MacBook (with decent keyboard?)

Re: iPad Pro

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post #356

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People have been saying this since the day after Steve died... Yet somehow Apple still thrives.

In the same fashion that microsoft and ibm thrives: its lost its dominance in the consumer market “headspace”, printing money but no longer being a company worth knowing. Its just another BigCo at this point, with all the benefits and dullness associated with it. (Eg it’s difficult to be excited for apple product announcements; they have a money-printing operation and their only intent is to maintain it as-is; natura…

You concluded all this from horizontal scrolling?

Re: iPad Pro

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post #314

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Maybe you didn't get the memo, but it's actually an early release of the 'new' way scroll. Scrolling 1.0 = normal scrolling Scrolling 2.0 = left/right up/down directions are inverted respectively Scrolling 3.0 = left/right scrolling only, via up/down gestures (use left/right gestures at your peril)

Don't forget, Scrolling 3.0 is only available on this year's New ScrollBar(tm)

Requires ECMAScript 2021, but transpilers should be available soon on npm.

Re: iPad Pro

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> in the background

So when you debug your app?

Killing Xcode would also end your debug session. Presumably Apple will think that far ahead and grant the necessary entitlements so that this doesn't happen.

Re: iPad Pro

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"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?

I own many Apple products, and I like Apple as a company a lot; but I would have to agree with your observation. The reality does not agree with their marketing. I understand marketing can be employed as a tool to favorably present reality, but still, the edge-to-edge statement is quite a stretch.

Re: iPad Pro

#479

I really like where the iPad is going. I play Civ 6 on a Pro with an Apple Pencil all the time, and I wish the screen was bigger. It is now, but that price... I could get a gaming rig for the cost of a 12in. My only question is where is the mini with FaceID?

The mini with FaceID is the iPhone XS Max, more or less.

Agree on the size, but that price...

Re: iPad Pro

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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…

XCode on iPad seems like a WWDC type announcement. And if there is some sort of new declarative UI that will target iOS and macOS they may just wait a year or two until that is ready (not that XCode as is would be ready today even if Apple wanted it). If they can get Photoshop on the iPad I’m optimistic we’ll get some kind of iOS IDE in the next 9-18 months.
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