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Re: iPad Pro

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Post by mr_toad »

snowwrestler wrote: post #102
rtkwe wrote: post #11

Huh looks like most of the predictions I'd heard came true: USB-C and no home button. Wonder if they're going to do the same shift on the rest of the lines? I'm a little surprised that the iPhone Xs and Xr weren't switched over to USB-c if this is planned for the whole line. Charging the pencil attached to the side is pretty neat the old solution was very... odd and seemed pretty dangerous (having such a long lever a…

I think the next charging revision for the iPhone will be no charging port at all, like the Apple Watch. But what about headphones? Also wireless.

AirPods are way more expensive that EarPods. If they included them in every iPhone it’d add at least $100 to the price.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by 1stranger »

mbreese wrote: post #508
dkarl wrote: post #360

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I think iPhones have for a long time been designed with the assumption that every user will add a case.

That's funny... I specifically don't use a case with my iPhone because I feel they have been designed as they are to work without a case.

I wish I could use it without a case but the thing is so damn slippery without one. Slides out of my pocket or around when sitting on the couch and it's on a slight incline.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by Steltek »

RubberShoes wrote: post #443

To me, the shift to USB-C signifies a fundamental change in how Apple is approaching the iPad and computing going forward. Those stupid "what's a computer" ads make a little more sense. With USB-C, developers will support whatever I/O standards they need to in iOS, and the ecosystem of monitors, keyboards, and peripherals we all bought for our laptops/desktops will now begin to work with iOS too. This feature alone g…

> developers will support whatever I/O standards they need to in iOS, and the ecosystem of monitors, keyboards, and peripherals...

What are you talking about? Apple won't allow developers to do any such thing. They only recently allowed a narrow range of NFC uses even though the hardware itself has been there forever. You think they're going to let people develop your own kernel drivers? Maybe with a $10,000 "hardware developer" account.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by cyberferret »

nightfly wrote: post #673

Vertical scrolling on a webpage should NEVER mean horizontal scrolling. T_T

That got me too. There is a real disconnect when I am swiping down on my magic mouse and the page is going sideways. They broke their own HIG with this one...

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by setr »

alexktz wrote: post #654
ricardobeat wrote: post #649

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All of that can be done in a remote VM. I use Coda + Shelly on an iPad pro and it's a pretty decent development experience. The real barrier is for (non-web) GUI development.

Remote VM is an interesting idea, what about mouse support?

out of that entire list, the only thing that called for a mouse was atom

maybe we're returning to the age of terminal-only development ;)

but with vector font rendering!

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #560
michaelmrose wrote: post #458

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Jailbreaking will never be mainstream when people worry about the warranty on their 1k-2k+ devices. If you want people to own their own devices you will have to write it into law presumably in a more consumer friendly jurisdiction than the US which cares about business first last and only.

I'm aware the jailbreak community often felt Apple was targeting them specifically, and perhaps they were, but every jailbreak was also exposing a security flaw. Personally, I've never been worried about jailbreaking voiding my warranty -- I just never got sufficient value from it to make it worth the drawbacks. (Both value and drawbacks are subjective measures, obviously.) While I understand the "you must own your o…

Back in the day (iOS 3-4 ish?) you used to be able to install Cydia packages that would patch whatever exploit the Jailbreak originally used.

This isn't the case anymore, unfortunately, because the Jailbreak community is smaller.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by amluto »

Aloha wrote: post #595
defective wrote: post #574

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I didn't know that, so I'm glad you mentioned it. I have had at least 20 failed cables and 0 failed ports (of maybe five or six devices) in my experience with Lightning. Actually, I'm not glad you mentioned it since that makes it even more perplexing. I was glad because if a port ever failed I would not have easily diagnosed it because I thought they were pretty good. But it must be my fault the cables are failing...…

My phones seem to eat cables, at the rate of about one a year, per device, but the ports last the lifetime of the device - which is a huge improvement over microusb.

I’ve had two ports fail.

Another issue with lightning: the contacts arc. The middle pin on any non-brand-new cable is almost always a bit burnt — it’s pretty easy to see. I don’t know whether USB-C has mitigations for this.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by AlexandrB »

gcb0 wrote: post #647
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.

apple: we won't give you touch screen laptops because touchscreens are garbage also apple: here's a laptop with only touchscreen. fan boys are going to have a field day to sell this one up. (edit: it already started with a workarounds for text input only. let's see how far it will go :)

Touchscreens are garbage on a desktop-oriented OS like macOS. The giant-ass buttons and controls in Windows 10 are one of the things that make it so infuriating for me. I don't want big buttons sucking up screen real-estate everywhere when I have a mouse available for precision input.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by mensetmanusman »

alexktz wrote: post #654
ricardobeat wrote: post #649

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of that can be done in a remote VM. I use Coda + Shelly on an iPad pro and it's a pretty decent development experience. The real barrier is for (non-web) GUI development.

Remote VM is an interesting idea, what about mouse support?

You can use swiftpoint on the jump desktop app (that is my setup), it’s highly portable. Don’t get the apple ipad keyboard though, no escape key...
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