Has anyone tried the released version yet? Is it as buggy as (reportedly) iOS 13 is?
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#52Anyone here familiar with photo management know what the likely implications of the new USB storage support are? My elderly mother has gotten into photography in the past few years and shoots with what I assume is a prosumer camera (high-ish resolution, swappable lenses). The Windows laptop she plugs into is a disaster waiting to happen, in that I’m pretty sure nothing is properly backed up. I think she also barely u…
Windows comes with a number of back up tools.
>https://www.howtogeek.com/220986/how-to-use-all-of-windows-1...
There's also a multitude of cloud solutions. Instead of forcing your mom into some weird ipad work flow, work with what she already does and is familiar with.
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#53I've been burned by two generations of Macbooks, and I honestly find the iPhones to be far inferior value to most mid-range Androids.
But my 2016 iPad still remains one of the best devices I've ever owned. It's effortlessly useful and still as sharp as ever.
Great to see Apple taking it more seriously.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Highly recommend it even with its steep price of $20 It's GPL3 [1], so you are welcome to compile and install on your own personal devices even if you do not have a paid Apple development subscription, though I'm pretty sure that this would require periodic compile/install cycles (every couple of weeks?). [1] https://github.com/blinksh/blink
It’s every 7 days.
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#55I've tried to use these desktop-inspired features on iPad and they are befuddling.
Using two apps at once is beyond confusing. A simple use case, like copying an address from a Safari tab into Gmail via split screen requires so many mysterious, undiscoverable gestures, I doubt almost anyone is doing that.
I think Jobs was right that convergence between workstations and mobile devices requires too many sacrifices, at least in the near term.
I think the obvious solution could be an old one discovered by PARC decades ago: applications in windows and a mouse.
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#56Anyone here familiar with photo management know what the likely implications of the new USB storage support are? My elderly mother has gotten into photography in the past few years and shoots with what I assume is a prosumer camera (high-ish resolution, swappable lenses). The Windows laptop she plugs into is a disaster waiting to happen, in that I’m pretty sure nothing is properly backed up. I think she also barely u…
Windows comes with a number of back up tools. > https://www.howtogeek.com/220986/how-to-use-all-of-windows-1... There's also a multitude of cloud solutions. Instead of forcing your mom into some weird ipad work flow, work with what she already does and is familiar with.
I think she went that route mainly because of cost rather than preference. She’ll obviously use what she wants to use, but she seems pretty unhappy / frustrated with status quo, so I don’t think helping her explore options is unreasonable.
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#57When you compare it to Android where you're lucky to get 18 months support it comes out ahead. When you compare it to MacOS and Windows 10 which run on 8-10 year old hardware, not as much. Of course how good Windows support is for that older hardware depends largely on OEMs and driver support and varies greatly. Linux can run on 20 year old hardware... or older?
> When you compare it to Android where you're lucky to get 18 months support it comes out ahead Google keeps their own hardware updated quite well, I liked the monthly security updates. With regards to the rest of the tablet market, basically only Samsung and Lenovo are left, and Samsung lost me as a customer a long time ago. I've been looking at the iPad Air 3 recently and while it looks nice, I just fell in love wi…
Google advertises that will provide updates for 3 years for Pixel 3a [1]. I think it should be at least 5 years.
[1] https://www.androidcentral.com/pixel-3a-does-one-more-thing-...
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#58Anyone here familiar with photo management know what the likely implications of the new USB storage support are? My elderly mother has gotten into photography in the past few years and shoots with what I assume is a prosumer camera (high-ish resolution, swappable lenses). The Windows laptop she plugs into is a disaster waiting to happen, in that I’m pretty sure nothing is properly backed up. I think she also barely u…
For an elderly person, just use iCloud for photos backup. It works incredibly well, and works through the native photos app, so it will totally eliminate the need to think about backing up unless it's offline all the time.
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#60As an OS, is it revolutionary or evolutionary?