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When 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?
Anyone 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…
Anyone 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…
Once you’ve enabled Photo syncing in iCloud and pay the monthly fee (€3 per month for 200GB etc) then that’s all there is to it.
My parent’s iPad backs up all their encrypted device content to my iCloud storage via Family Sharing, they don’t pay a thing. I’ve no access to it but it eats slightly into my quota. My mother has the USB A to lightning dongle and she’s can easily import from her Canon P&S. Normally I have to explain every step to her but I was away when the dongle shipped to her and she managed it just fine.
The Photos app has a reasonable editor that get the job done. Add Afinity Photo to that and it’s ability to open from iCloud and you’ve a Photoshop killer.
The nice thing about Apple Photos Library is that it keeps the original image and all edits so you don’t lose anything.
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.
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I think one reason is that it looks half baked. Instead of a cursor you get a blob which simulates a finger. Another reason might be because Apple has been avoiding mixing touch screens with mice. Not sure why. Maybe because Microsoft did it first or maybe because Apple doesn't want to canibalize sales between products. Anyway, a macOS touch laptop would be amazing or an iPad pro runnning an iOS/macOS combo. Sidecar…
I've never been convinced about a touchscreen macOS. The quality of the interface in Windows took a nosedive when they started trying to account for both finger-poking and precision cursor use. I would hate to see that happen to macOS. My preference is to let macOS/MacBooks stay keyboard/mouse, and let iPadOS/iPad be the touch device.
I'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…
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> 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-...
Imagine the travesty if Microsoft could turn off Windows updates like this and write off general purpose computers just a few years old or even five years old per Apple. This is a joke, we should not be making exceptions for Google or Apple, their software should not be allowed to render 10s or 100s of millions of competent devices obsolete annually.
This is anti-consumer and stupidly-bad for the environment, and we can see from Windows it is entirely optional and we can see from their $100+ billion in savings each, that Google and Apple could do it too.
As an OS, is it revolutionary or evolutionary?
I enjoy my iPad for consuming content but often have an itch to create from it. In that regard, the only valid input for me has been the pencil. So the two most intriguing aspect are (1) mirroring with macOS Catalina and (2) the new text input UI. I’ve often wished for simple text editor on my iPad to follow along with books. Are there /any/ good touch inputs for text?
I have been playing with low-key streaming with the iPad Pro, and have been pleasantly surprised at how well I can prop up the iPad to stream, and use the extra real-estate to read or check-in on stream chat.
I don't want / need the super high quality tools of a professional streamer, but I don't want grainy 2001 feature phone video - just something that can allow me to keep it as a fun side hobby without investing thousands of $ in a set-up.
And there are a bunch of decent apps to do some light video editing, but iMovie tends to satisfy my needs.
Has anyone tried the released version yet? Is it as buggy as (reportedly) iOS 13 is?