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Re: iPad Pro

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Post by wild_preference »

sigi45 wrote: post #364
clawoo wrote: post #277

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Billions of dollars in research and industrial design, thousands of man-hours sourcing the perfect materials, hundreds of thousands of hours of engineering that give a device a most perfect feel. Only to be placed in a $10 case with bunny ears so it won't crack if you accidentally drop it.

Exactly! Slim sleack shiny phones which break when dropped. Easily dropped because of shiny slippery surface. What to do? Put some cheap something around it..... And I'm wondering why people ask me why I don't have a case around my phone. I don't get the thin phone to have more space for the plastic protection that's why...

Frankly I think it makes perfect sense that a phone come without protection built in so that I can swap out the protection myself and, after a couple years, I'm not stuck with a banged up device.

This doesn't seem weird or contradictory to me at all. Nothing seems cheaper to me than my girlfriend's Android phone with rubber bumpers built in. Meanwhile my iPhones with cases look brand new when I'm ready to sell them.

Re: iPad Pro

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closetohome wrote: post #618
maverick2007 wrote: post #239

I'm curious whether you can actually import RAW photos into this iPad. According to [1], importing huge (42 Megapixel) RAW files into the last gen iPad Pro was pretty much unusable. I can definitely see myself making this my travel laptop, replacing my 2013 Macbook Air if I could connect my camera, import all of my photos for the day, maybe do some light editing and then export them to an external hard drive. [1] htt…

I'm not sure I understand why someone would get frustrated about it taking over an hour to transfer 250gb over USB 2.0. That's...math?

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Re: iPad Pro

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Post by bluedino »

ohitsdom wrote: post #522
spurcell93 wrote: post #506

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I prefer it because it feels way better. The snap, and the way the plug feels secure in the socket.... I had a nexus 6p for a year and the plug was so damn unreliable and wiggly. Bought multiple different types but they were all bad. That said, I haven't used any Apple devices with USBC and I would not be surprised if they felt much better.

I have an iPhone and a MacBook with USB-C ports, and my experience has been the exact opposite. The lightning port on my iPhone is really weak, all cords can way too easily lose a connection so my music stops or it stops charging. The USB-C on my laptop snaps in really nicely, I'm never worried about the cable not being fully connected.

Two of the usb-c ports on my 2016 MBP has been loose for a while

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by Roboprog »

softawre wrote: post #570
reacharavindh wrote: post #32

I wish they made an iPhone SE as a miniature form of this iPad. square-ish edges (easier to hold), better & larger LCD displays within the same body size, and powerful internals. The new iphones are just too big for one-handed use. you want to type the name of the website on top bar of mobile Safari - bring the next hand out or drop your phone....

With you, that's why I switched to the new small Pixel (non-XL). I use my phone for a phone. I can see if the phone is the only compute device you have, which is true for lots of people, then you might want to deal with the larger screen because you are watching videos on it and what not.

The iPhone SE makes a better synthesizer than the Pixel, though:-)

And it’s cheaper

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by readit3 »

SiVal wrote: post #617
drb91 wrote: post #538

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The biggest pain for me of lack of access to the underlying OS has turned out not to be any of my thousands of tiny gripes with the way the software works that I can't change (e.g. setting dns on the cell connection), but the lack of transparency and ability to debug basic processes. What is the computer doing now? Why is it hanging? Why did that app crash? Why is my network failing? Who is that app talking to? My ma…

The reason Apple cares so much more about iOS than MacOS is vastly increased control. With iOS, they control the hardware from the chips up, the OS, which apps you can run, and via Safari-only access to the internet, even what you can and can't do using external services. It makes computing & communications an Apple theme park, where you can't bring anything forbidden into the park, have to buy everything you need fr…

Thank you, Sir for making it clear for all fanboys out there. Add to this fiasco virtually non existent support, slow hardware update, no easy repairability, dongle gate, no long term driver support for devices, telemetry, root gate etc. Actually i think that is time to give pressure on companies for better Linux support. And live Crapple for the delusional ones.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by hrktb »

theduro wrote: post #509

Why none of the top comments on a site called Hacker News are about the fact that this is far from anything that could be used for software development surprises me. Only feasible way to use this for dev would be using a cloud IDE, since I have no access to the OS or ability to install dependencies. I love the idea of the iPad becoming something that could replace a laptop, but for me I wait for the day when I can at…

I see where you come from, but there is a lot of software that can be written without sandbox access to OS’ kernel or filesystem.

In particular, wanting to run absolutely everything in local is reasonable, but not a requirement I think.

Currently the only thing that’s really lacking is direct git integration into Coda or the other editors, and I know Panic is working on it. Git apps can be used to bridge the gap but it’s just too combersome.

Otherwise, accessing an external DB , or even having my code run on a VM somewhere else is not an issue as long as I can remotely debug.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by carlospwk »

xd1936 wrote: post #500
nikhizzle wrote: post #306

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Yes, on IOS 12 I regularly import very large RAW photos on my first generation iPad Pro. The RAW importing workflow is finally as good as the JPG, meaning it actually processes RAW in iOS photos. I'll also add that in some ways, such as editing levels, the iPad and my phone seem faster than a MacBook Pro. Whether this boils down to specialized hardware, more efficient software or something else I do not know. I'll al…

But you still have to import it into Photos first, then jump to the app that you actually want to work in? I wish Apple would open up some of these APIs so that apps like Photoshop could actually interact with the filesystem.

There's a workaround (albeit somewhat annoying) to this: After you've imported your photos to the Photos app, select them all and then export them to your destination of choice on the Files app. Then you can open them with whatever app you need to (or import them straight to the app folder itself if possible).

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by wild_preference »

kllrnohj wrote: post #440
MontagFTB wrote: post #367

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The demo file shown at the event was 12000x12000, 127 layers. It was 3GB on disk, 5GB fully loaded into memory. Double-tap to zoom was happening at 120Hz, fully animated, to anywhere within the document. I realize I'm biased, but on such a machine, the observed performance is anything but rudimentary.

It's not impressive if it's not doing it with ideal sharpness in real-time, which it wasn't. Tiled zooming into arbitrarily large images is otherwise rather easy to do. Go plop the largest image you can find onto your nearest Android phone and it'll zoom & pan that image at 60fps with nary a stutter or issue. It will take a while for it to re-snap the sharpness as you zoom in, though, but so was the iPad Pro. How fas…

You think a many-layered PSD file is comparable to zooming a single image?

That's like wondering why the source + instrumented dev environment uses so much more resources than its compiled, optimized binary.

What a weird confusion to see on HN.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by beenBoutIT »

j45 wrote: post #587
kanishkdudeja wrote: post #532

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I hope iOS 13 will have mouse support for the iPad Pro. Only being able to touch the screen while using the iPad Pro in laptop mode feels really limiting.

All that horsepower, no accurate steering wheel. Is it a pro device if the choice to add a mouse isn't there? Many pros work in pixel accurate selection instead of pencil or finger.

It's a "Pro" device because Apple used a flimsy keyboard that doesn't allow the possibility of actual lap-top use.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by beenBoutIT »

aklemm wrote: post #374
calgoo wrote: post #123

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Am I the only one who actually like to have an edge on my devices so they dont break by looking at them? At least if there is a metal edge it can take some of the force and you have a chance of not breaking the screen. I dont understand why metal is bad and glass is somehow good? Also, I need to grab my ipad, move it around, spin it, grab it with the other hand etc. I see the edges / bezel's as very useful in these c…

Right?! I do not understand the crusade to remove all bezels.

It's a key part of the bigger plan to remove thickness, bezels, ports and functionality.
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