Cool. Now to get the first version of the pro
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
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#612> iPad Pro is faster and more powerful than most Windows PC laptops
This is such a frustrating comparison that Apple continues to make. They factor in that most Windows PC laptops are very low-spec and low-price. If you compared performance with similarly priced machines it would likely be a different story.
But come on, Apple. It's not 2001 anymore. You don't need to keep up with the 'us vs them' mentality.
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And this isn’t even mechanical.
No, it's Apple's scissor switch keyboard which is considered one of the best low-profile keyboards around. Lugging around even a compact mechanical keyboard for use with an iPad is a hassle.
I wish someone would at least try to come up with a portable mechanical-like solution.
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#614I already had an iPad Pro + smart keyboard + pencil once... and got rid of it and switched to a Surface Pro. We still have an old 10" iPad 2 + an older iPad Mini in the house and they get use for typical iPad consumer stuff. When I add up this new iPad in the minimum 128GB/Wifi/11" config this one is about $400 more than I paid for the Surface Pro + KB cover + MS Pen. (Which is i5/8GB/128GB/Wifi-only) The Surface has…
This is why I don't understand how there's even a market for the iPad Pro (outside the Apple superfans). I like iOS, but it seems like if you want to any real work it's an uphill battle, and for the money there are plenty of alternatives.
As an artist, there's nothing even remotely close to the iPad's hardware quality and software environment anywhere near its price range. Even well beyond its price range, it's hard to beat the software quality and comfort with regards to usage.
As a programmer, I use my desktop.
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#615While everybody is 'discussing' the technical and use-case merits in that manner for which HN is (in)famous i would like to point out that this device looks like somebody decided the iPads could do with some design flair so they took a photo of an iPhone SE and enlarged it and then basically said "Done!".
Specs, users, emotion aside at least as a physical device it actually has some style. At last. Thank you somebody inside Apple for not producing yet another round edge, nearly anonymous, soap-bar slab.
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#616Apple, 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
That would be a dream setup
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#617> iPad Pro is faster and more powerful than most Windows PC laptops This is such a frustrating comparison that Apple continues to make. They factor in that most Windows PC laptops are very low-spec and low-price. If you compared performance with similarly priced machines it would likely be a different story. But come on, Apple. It's not 2001 anymore. You don't need to keep up with the 'us vs them' mentality.
Eh as someone who works in IT, there’s a lot of hate spread around. It’s an awful part of the entire industry. People neglect whole ecosystems of the industry and thus their career paths because of the Mac, windows, Linux hate war. If someone’s stuck to a single tribe they’re a lot less interesting as a professional. I take it as a sign of lack of experience and professionalism.
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#618Funny how Apple went from a mindset that mice were only intended to be accessibility peripherals in iOS, to fully support for them so quickly. I think it was only a year or so ago that someone high up at Apple said something to reaffirm that mindset.
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#619Not sure about floating keyboard design. I have latest (well, before this one) ipad pro with keyboard and it sits really well on an actual lap. I have doubts about this. Looks like it would bounce on a lap when typing.
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IMHO if you had “a Gatekeeper model that worked the exact same way as Android”, then the granularity of the permissions in iOS wouldn’t help you, because developers (and especially malicious developers) would have no incentive to use the fine-grained capabilities. The only reason anyone bothers with the finickyness of capabilities manifests in the first place, is that Apple forces developers to take exactly the capab…
> If nobody has any reason to “only claim what they need”, then why would they? That's a reasonable question that at first glance seems to have an obvious answer. And yet, the web works. The web works brilliantly -- the web isn't perfect by any metric, but it is still almost objectively the most secure general-user computing platform that we have today. There are a lot of reasons for that, including just locking down…
> Under this model, the app is completely isolated by default, and never knows how many permissions the user has granted it, so it never knows whether or not to ask for more of them.
This model has benefits, but it also has a major downside: if the app doesn't know it doesn't have privileges, it can't inform the user of that fact. The user has to realize on their own that the reason their search for a local bakery returned something on the other side of the country is that they forgot to enable location permissions.