So much for the prevailing rumor that Apple was going to create fewer platforms by merging macOS with iOS.
Never trust rumours. Rumours are tinged with bias. Rather, prefer to trust the horse's mouth and its history. Apple has always said they wouldn't merge macOS and iOS, but they have a history of bringing iOS frameworks to macOS for consistency (AVFoundation was a big one). Rumours are the fodder of those who cannot be bothered to learn about something but want the air of clairvoyance to impress friends; they are the l…
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#212I 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.
iPhone doesn’t have a screen large enough or a USB connector…how would you use the “new Files app”?
Seriously, am I being gaslighted here? The Files app is already available on iOS 12, I think it was introduced in 11, and it's definitely on iPhones.
Everybody talking about it like a hypothetical iPad-only app is seriously confusing me.
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#213I 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.
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Im always fascinated by program shortcuts almost no one knows about. How did you learn about long pressing in safari?
This is what always confuses me when people say "macOS/iOS is soooo intuitive!" - discoverability of features is well, horrible. You have to long/3d/long 3d press all manner of elements to discover, not to mention single/two/three finger swipes in differing directions, from screen, from edge.
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It's already available with a long press on the refresh icon, "request desktop site". Probably it'll let you request a mobile version now and requests the desktop site by default.
I hope it's more than this. A lot of sass websites have features inexplicably broken on the ipad pro, even though they display perfectly. And some google sites refuse to load. This is even if you request desktop. But go to icab mobile, set user agent to desktop, and the sites load and work perfectly.
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#216I remember when apple was lauded for unifying the forked os for ipad into iOS. i guess they changed their minds.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never trust rumours. Rumours are tinged with bias. Rather, prefer to trust the horse's mouth and its history. Apple has always said they wouldn't merge macOS and iOS, but they have a history of bringing iOS frameworks to macOS for consistency (AVFoundation was a big one). Rumours are the fodder of those who cannot be bothered to learn about something but want the air of clairvoyance to impress friends; they are the l…
Rumors are spread by those who test the waters, usually.
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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.
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Yes, this. This bridges some gaps for sites that are built as either mobile-specific (but not truly responsive), or as desktop-only. I would have thought that the whole device detection, mobile-specific thing would have died many years ago, but it is stubbornly persistent. True responsive sites have worked fine for ages, and should continue to do so. On the desktop-only site side, it looks like Apple has also done so…
What is your criteria for a "true responsive site" and can you point to a good resource describing implementation details? Asking for a friend :)
All of the "evergreen" browsers have a mobile design view built into their dev tools these days. You can enable that, switch between specific device screen profiles, and continuously drag the "screen size" handles to watch your site's behavior at different sizes. This is great for development, since your web inspector view stays at full size.
Combining CSS media queries with CSS flexbox is a hugely powerful way customize the end-user experience for different devices. Flexbox not only makes basic layout adaptations straightforward (or free!), it lets you handle some otherwise tricky cases using tools like reordering support.
It's probably also worth searching for "mobile first web design" for further resources.
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#220the multi-tasking/multi-window looks incredibly complicated, full of hidden gestures/commands that aren't really discoverable
The one multi-window functionality I need is the ability have the iPad in portrait mode and split the screen horizontally. That way I could have a book or movie on top and notes on the bottom. It seems that iPadOS still cannot do this very basic thing. It's frustrating beyond belief knowing that this device could be so much more useful with that tiny basic functionality that has existed in GUIs for decades. (And why…