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Re: iPadOS

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Post by robbyking »

ben7799 wrote: post #3

Wow.. you can finally plug in a USB drive/card reader/camera/whatever... That alone actually takes the iPad a long way towards actually being real/Pro/whatever. I sold my first Gen iPad Pro over this stuff. It was just to painful to do a lot of real world stuff that involved files. Maybe today the experience would be a heck of a lot better.

In 2018 I took a year off fro work to be a stay-at-home dad, and one thing that really surprised me was how little I used my MacBook; the only time I would drag it out was to connect my pre-bluetooth Garmin to sync my cycling workouts to Strava.

Had my iPad supported USB devices, there's a good chance I wouldn't have used it at all.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by ogre_codes »

finkin1 wrote: post #5

I wonder why they aren't advertising mouse support. This seems like one of the most useful features to me. They didn't mention it on the keynote and I can't find it on their website anywhere. Any thoughts on why Apple wouldn't be pushing this as a major advancement for iPad?

Because it's not very good mouse support. It's basically a simulated finger. If they started advertising this, people would rightly criticize it for being mediocre. For the moment anyhow, the iPad is a touch device with an optional virtual finger you can plug into it.

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Post by cl0ckt0wer »

cfors wrote: post #10

Cool, but nothing about any focus on making the machine realistic for development. My current MacBook Pro is getting a little long in the tooth and after suffering through the 2016 and later versions at work, I will not be buying one of those until the keyboards are fixed. If iPadOS has first class terminal support I would consider making it my full time machine. Looks like the waiting game will continue.

i hear the thinkpad keyboards are pretty good.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by baby_wipe »

I really wish I could use macOS on the iPad.

As a half measure, I'm gonna see if I can use sidecar with my macbook lid shut.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by robohoe »

cfors wrote: post #10

Cool, but nothing about any focus on making the machine realistic for development. My current MacBook Pro is getting a little long in the tooth and after suffering through the 2016 and later versions at work, I will not be buying one of those until the keyboards are fixed. If iPadOS has first class terminal support I would consider making it my full time machine. Looks like the waiting game will continue.

Blink shell on the App Store is a fantastic terminal that works wonderfully on iOS/iPadOS. Highly recommend it even with its steep price of $20. It supports mosh out of the box and has ability to store/import private/public keys. Multiple terminals can be opened as well. It even has a limited native shell which you can use to SCP files from your iPad to servers.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by iaml »

baby wrote: post #2

I’ve been using this for several months now, I am still confused about the hand gestures I need to do to make multi tasking work. Everything has been very confusing to me, and it’s been hard finding information online as it was a beta.

It's very annoying. I haven't found a way to close the app in slideover apart from opening sidedrawer and closing all the apps there.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by bigdubs »

cfors wrote: post #10

Cool, but nothing about any focus on making the machine realistic for development. My current MacBook Pro is getting a little long in the tooth and after suffering through the 2016 and later versions at work, I will not be buying one of those until the keyboards are fixed. If iPadOS has first class terminal support I would consider making it my full time machine. Looks like the waiting game will continue.

The iPad was never intended to be a desktop or laptop replacement; it was meant to invent a new niche for a computer with a "fileless" interface.

Expecting it to replace your development machine is probably not realistic.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by dallen33 »

The list of supported devices is impressive. The iPad Air 2 came out in 2014.

  12.9-inch iPad Pro
  11-inch iPad Pro
  10.5-inch iPad Pro
  9.7-inch iPad Pro
  iPad (7th generation)
  iPad (6th generation)
  iPad (5th generation)
  iPad mini (5th generation)
  iPad mini 4
  iPad Air (3rd generation)
  iPad Air 2

Re: iPadOS

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Post by prashnts »

radnor wrote: post #9
prashnts wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adding to the whatever list, you can also use USB Optical drives with a powered hub (just tried yesterday). It appears in Files app. Seems like they’ve finally implemented proper usb stack.

You can connect quite a few things via the Camera Connection Kit (CCK) which has a USB port in it. MIDI controllers and USB soundcards are two things I've used recently.

Not sure what’s the CCK. Is it one of the dongles they sell with HDMI, SD Reader, and USB?

I first got excited that it can connect to USB webcams — I have some modded webcams I use as microscope — would be super useful if I could interface it with a camera app. But it didn’t work, last I tried. Are you aware of some way to do that? :)

Re: iPadOS

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Post by darklion »

cfors wrote: post #10

Cool, but nothing about any focus on making the machine realistic for development. My current MacBook Pro is getting a little long in the tooth and after suffering through the 2016 and later versions at work, I will not be buying one of those until the keyboards are fixed. If iPadOS has first class terminal support I would consider making it my full time machine. Looks like the waiting game will continue.

> Cool, but nothing about any focus on making > the machine realistic for development.

What are you developing? What would you need?

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