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Post by joemi »

NikkiA wrote: post #210
joemi wrote: post #139

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A paid calculator app might be better designed than a free one. Or it might not have ads, when a free one does. Or it being paid could mean that it'll be better supported with any necessary bugfixes and updates. Or the fact that it's a paid app could imply that it's better designed or better supported (without necessarily being true). Or perhaps you really care about something particular that the paid calculator app…

> A paid calculator app might be better designed than a free one. A very bold claim - there are many paid-for calc apps that just use plain floating point math and don't attempt to mimic a proper calculator at all. There are also free calc apps that DO put the work in to be a proper useful calculator.

I don't think it's bold at all to say one _might_ be, as I purposefully did. I'd think that'd be pretty obvious, actually.

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Post by petecox »

numbsafari wrote: post #96
snazz wrote: post #94

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Does the second screen act as a second monitor or as a mirror?

Currently acts as a mirror. :-(

Android has the same limitation.

i.e. I can connect multiple displays with Android via hdmi and a usb adapter but Displaylink technical support suggested for an extended desktop I'd need to pester Google.

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Post by pcr910303 »

0815test wrote: post #107
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #89

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I agree. This is a challenge with the iOS (and Android) UIs, I think. Mice and trackpads have a more obvious and somewhat richer set of "verbs" for interaction, e.g., right-click versus "try tapping with two fingers," and menu bars make all their commands very easily discoverable in ways that toolbar-only UIs have a lot of trouble duplicating. I'm not sure, though, what a better approach is on the iPad, assuming that…

> This is a challenge with the iOS (and Android) UIs, I think. Mice and trackpads have a more obvious and somewhat richer set of "verbs" for interaction GTK+3 has a good approach there, I think. It turns the window titlebar into a thick "header bar", which includes a "title" part for easy grabbing as well as a handful of button-accessible menus (fewer than the top levels in a traditional menubar), including a kitchen…

> GTK+3 has a good approach there, I think. It turns the window titlebar into a thick "header bar", which includes a "title" part for easy grabbing as well as a handful of button-accessible menus

In case you don’t know, that’s what modeled after macOS. (It had it from the beginning. AFAIK)

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Post by pcr910303 »

stormbeta wrote: post #220
zmb_ wrote: post #126

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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…

Not to mention the inability to split the keyboard - on iPad sized devices, trying to thumb type without a split keyboard is a huge pain in the ass.

I’ve used split keyboards in iPads since I bought them 3 yrs ago. Split keyboards were there forever.

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Post by max76 »

fumar wrote: post #200
jgon wrote: post #172

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The small print on the page that mentions this stat says that the measurements were taken on a new 12.9 inch iPad Pro using the Gen 2 Apple Pencil. Not sure what latency reductions may make their way to the other iPads, but nothing is stated right now.

I have the 10.5 in Pro and Apple Pencil 1. I wonder if the 20 ms vs 9 ms is detectable by the human eye.

It might be. On monitors the difference between a 120hz refresh rate and 144hz refresh rate is about 14ms between frames. Some people (claim) to tell the difference.

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Post by universenz »

The most exciting aspect of this is the resizable text / view port zoom in Safari. Productivity is going to go through the roof!

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Post by pcr910303 »

fumar wrote: post #200
jgon wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The small print on the page that mentions this stat says that the measurements were taken on a new 12.9 inch iPad Pro using the Gen 2 Apple Pencil. Not sure what latency reductions may make their way to the other iPads, but nothing is stated right now.

I have the 10.5 in Pro and Apple Pencil 1. I wonder if the 20 ms vs 9 ms is detectable by the human eye.

It can be very detectable, I'd say. Try watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4 It shows the difference between from >100ms to ~1ms. It's mind baffling.

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Post by jrochkind1 »

Apocryphon wrote: post #12

So much for the prevailing rumor that Apple was going to create fewer platforms by merging macOS with iOS.

Oh, I dunno, it wouldn't surprise me if iPadOS is a step in that direction, and some future laptop runs... iPadOS and there is no more MacOS.
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