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Like the calculator app.
This one boggles my mind. I probably wouldn't need it often, but there are some times where I wish I had it handy instead of needing to pick up my phone. (And without needing to install a 3rd party app.)
Why are we as developers giving this company any of our business when they've thumbed their noses at us for decades?
Weird. As a developer I haven't found Apple to be thumbing their nose at me. Many of their features are genuinely useful for my development e.g. TouchBar.
Will there be a multi-user mode? Perfect for separating work from home or multiple clients... It would make iPad so much more usable as a single device for both work and fun.
I'm hoping for this. If you have little kids in your house you cannot safely use the iPad Mail client, for example
This is pretty cool. It keeps them within the app I want them to be in. you can even set it up so that when they're watching a movie, you can disable taps so they can't exit the video accidentally.
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USB-C/Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard support, including on extra screens when plugged in, would have been a killer feature. I guess Apple thought it would cannibalise Mac sales too much?
Probably worried too many apps would assume you have a mouse, so touch support would suffer from mixed-paradigm induced jank. See: the Surface. I wish they'd enable them only for remote desktop apps, though. Then I could sell my Macbook, get a Mac Mini, and remote in when I want to do desktop stuff.
No information on whether the iPad Pro keyboard is fully compliant in terms of arrow keys, etc. This really gets in the way of things like Cloud 9, hosted VS Code, etc.
It has hjkl, right? What more could you need?
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This one boggles my mind. I probably wouldn't need it often, but there are some times where I wish I had it handy instead of needing to pick up my phone. (And without needing to install a 3rd party app.)
You can type equations into the search field and it will give you the answer.
As a web developer, what on earth does this mean? > desktop sites are now the default in Safari Surely it's not some kind of meddling with the device width to make responsive web design even more confusing. That would be very odd. My hope is that it's some kind of user agent manipulation that thwarts device sniffing so you don't see a mobile phone stylesheet or get redirected to a mobile site while using your iPad.
On the desktop-only site side, it looks like Apple has also done some interaction refinements for problems touch-based users can hit on these sites, especially around distinct hover vs. click interactions, the need to "tap-twice" to essentially "focus then click", etc.
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Like the calculator app.
This one boggles my mind. I probably wouldn't need it often, but there are some times where I wish I had it handy instead of needing to pick up my phone. (And without needing to install a 3rd party app.)
2 - Type in your math problem.
Similar to google search in capability as far as I've seen.
I am nervous this means Apple will hold back features from iOS to get people to buy an iPad. For example, they announced the new Files app with iPadOS but there is no reason that shouldn't all be available on an iPhone.
Indeed. I really hope the SMB native support in Files comes to iOS. For example, I currently use Documents by Readdle, but I would love to eliminate that step.
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It goes the other way as well. There are already a bunch of iPhone-only features in iOS.
Like the calculator app.