What's up with the CPU? The recent iPhone has A13 Bionic and now, half year latter theier flagship iPad has A12z?!
How do both compare?
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
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#202Apple, please make the ipadOS eco system developer friendly. I'd buy it instantly. If Visual Studio Code was available there, that'd be amazing. There is some projects[1] going on but using some non-viable workaround [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70764
How can they do that while maintaining their Maginot line against user-defined code so they can keep getting their 30% cut from the app store?
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#203The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..
What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.
I am always baffled, when the keyboard + iPad issue is brought up, perhaps my use-case is unique. I use a Apple A1314 Keyboard, which has an ESC key, it is Bluetooth enabled with decent key travel, and cheap to acquire. It is just a matter of popping the iPad Pro 10.5 (2017) on an after market stand and/or propping it atop a stack of books if required, it is a good solution and works well, even for a touch-typist like myself.
However, I would appreciate better support for MX Master as opposed to the current solution via Accessibility.
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#204I still wish I could run Xcode on it. It’s too nice of a machine to have to spin up a cloud server to develop on. One concern: my iPad Pro 1 smart Keyboard died after 2 years.
Do you develop on your iPad via a cloud server? How? Are there alternative development environments?
I use a digital ocean droplet over mosh with tmux and vim for some things and that works pretty well but its annoying not having vscode or sublime to use for sure
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#205The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..
I remember when the iPhone X broke the $1000 barrier and made phones that cost even more than that suddenly acceptable. It seems Apple is successfully pushing up the acceptable price for things.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely not for a web dev. 1. iPad doesn't have a serious IDE. And syncing your workspace with a local computer is not trivial. 2. Safari for iPad doesn't have a dev mode. 3. However, if you only use terminal and vi, iPad has a great terminal app: Blink. Honestly Blink is better than most of desktop terminal in the market. https://blink.sh/
Does Blink ship with vi? It's not listed in the set of utilities on its website.
It does ship with ed, though.
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#207I'll continue to be skeptical about the "next computer" marketing of iPad Pro before there can be some breakthrough of multi-tasking design.
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#208The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..
What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.
iPadOS 13.4 will let you remap the useless capslock key to esc:
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/02/06/ipados-13-4-hardwar...
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#209The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..
Well it's also a display stand, to raise the iPad Pro up (insert joke about Apple's 20K stand here). Anyone with a current Mac who's been using it for a while want to tel us how the keyboard is? I'm typing this on one of 2018 ones and it feels like I'm typing directly on a desk.
I have a current Macbook Pro that's mine and a butterfly-switch MBP from work. The butterfly is acceptable, although I've finally gotten a doubling key, x, which is a problem for doing cmd-x.
The new MBP keyboard is noticeably different in feel from the old scissor-switch keyboard, but not especially so. It's comfortable to type on and I'm happy with it.
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#210Zero interest until I can: - use a native build of Firefox without webkit - have low-latency audio - do network troubleshooting with MAC address access - use VOIP with proper background operation & notification Sorry, Apple, but you created the greatest software/hardware ecosystem in history and then screwed the pooch so badly that you lost me as a customer and a developer.
They screwed the pooch so badly that they’re worth a trillion dollars.