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What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.
People who value the Escape key were never going to make an iPad their primary computer anyways.
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Yes. But it’s interesting when two things evolve towards each other, but starting from different places. Like comparing bats and birds, or penguins, otters, and fish. In this case, evolving from a device designed for touch only into touch-first is going to be different from a device that evolved from—let’s be honest—keyboards, punch cards, and the command-line.
Judging from the (in my opinion) really clunky multi window feature in iPadOS it seems they are struggling to get even close to the usability of macOS. I don’t think so far iPadOS scales well to larger screen sizes and multitasking. A lot of things take more clicking compared to macOS.
Apple, 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
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Tangential, but I’ve observed that preferences of what caps lock should be is dependent on your domain. I write and use a browser in my work. Caps lock as backspace makes the most sense. There will be others that will (unnecessarily) argue with me that caps should and always will be escape. A possible (mainstream) solution is to change the caps to a custom key that’s configured in the initial setup of a device.
> Caps lock as backspace makes the most sense. But you have a backspace key on your keyboard?
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iPadOS 13.4 will let you remap the useless capslock key to esc: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/02/06/ipados-13-4-hardwar...
I prefer to remap it to Control_L, that's where I have it in muscle memory. But I also need a Meta key for Emacs.
The front facing camera is seriously neglected. They keep on adding more powerful/fancy cameras to the rear that people likely under-use in the common case, while the front camera that is commonly used for work, video conferencing, selfies, etc remains on the wrong edge and is under-powered. It is almost farcical with the new keyboard setting the top to the non-camera edge. The front facing camera should be the premi…
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What most people use a computer for these days are not what we use a computer for. Most people probably require little except a phone for most computing needs. * Getting a convenient dock and better physical keyboard. * Surfing on an iPad is probably a lot better and fast experience than a similarly priced computer. * A lot of dedicated apps for most tasks people need. (Youtube, Spotify, Netflix, etc) * People use em…
> What most people use a computer for these days are not what we use a computer for. That's why I'm posting this on HN and not Facebook or something. Everything you mention could be done on a smartphone - no need for this allegedly "computer replacing" iPad. The people at my company who use Excel absolutely could not do what they do on an iPad.
What Apple SHOULD be working on right now is FaceTime for Android.