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So much for the prevailing rumor that Apple was going to create fewer platforms by merging macOS with iOS.
Pencil latency drop to 9ms is best I've seen.
Is that for both gen 1 and gen 2 pencils?
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Thanks! So it runs on iPad Air 2 and up. That‘s nice! The iPad Air 2 was released in late 2014!
I think it’s reasonable to expect at the very least 5 years of support. It would be very un-nice if it weren’t supported.
Will iPadOS include a calculator app?
Maybe it will include a graphing calculator... Unbelievable sneaky 2004 Apple story: Engineers would come to our offices at midnight and practically slip machines under the door. One said, "Officially, this machine doesn't exist, you didn't get it from me, and I don't know you. Make sure it doesn't leave the building." https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Will iPadOS include a calculator app?
Can someone recommend a good programmer's calculator for the iPad? If I'm going to buy a calculator app, I might as well get a good one. Bonus if it can do time calculators. (I used to have a physical time calculator that could do 15 hours + 3 hours, 21 minutes = x minutes, and it was surprisingly useful=.)
(I requested > 4 vertical lines a while back and he added it)
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> iOS widgets, on the other hand, directly tap into applications, can come in variable sizes, have a somewhat uniform presentation style, and one visits the Home screen many more times than one clicks the Show Desktop button on Windows. Android has supported exactly this since 1.5 (2009). > The actual concept, at least as of iPadOS (as opposed to iOS 11 and 12), is more like macOS' Spaces or Mission Control. I honest…
> Android has supported exactly this since 1.5 (2009) But I think those widgets are still so Vista/Dashboard-like in nature; they're made to look good and present simple information, but rare are the widgets that are generally more useful than the features built directly into the launcher (of which my favourite Android launcher remains Nova). > I honestly have no idea what you're talking about here. Multiple workspac…
Words hurt, friend ;)
What's old is new again! Mac OS became Mac OS X became OS X became macOS. iPhone OS, whatever it was called on the iPod touch and iPad OS merged to be called iOS, and now there's a new iPadOS.
No, the OS on iPads and iPods Touch was always called iOS - the OS was only called iPhone OS for a very short period of time.
And the period of time was not "very short" by my definition at least.
According to [0]:
> Apple announced iPhone OS 1 at the iPhone keynote on January 9, 2007, and it was released to the public alongside the original iPhone on June 29, 2007. > Apple announced iPhone OS 2 at the iPhone software roadmap keynote in March 2008, and it was released to the public on July 11, 2008 alongside the iPhone 3G. > Apple announced iPhone OS 3 in March 2009, and it was released to the public on June 17, 2009 alongside the iPhone 3GS. > Apple announced iOS 4 in March 2010 and it was released to the public on June 21, 2010 alongside the iPhone 4.
It was called iPhone OS for roughly 3 years. About 25% of the time since the OS was released it was called iPhone OS.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iPhone_OS_...
This feels like it could become a repeat of Android Honeycomb, but iOS is a much more mature operating system now than Android was at the time, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.
It is an interesting strategy; where others have tried to unify their OS (WinRT/UWP, Honeycomb->Ice cream sandwich). Honeycomb and WinRT were viewed as fragmentation, I think somehow it won’t be viewed the same with iPadOS
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I'm hoping for this. If you have little kids in your house you cannot safely use the iPad Mail client, for example
Settings->General->Accessibility->Guided access. 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.