I wish the iPad pro was not such a locked down operating system. I just want to run a web browser that is not safari, and visual studio code.
You can run Chrome and Firefox on an iPad.
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#92I have the 12.9 iPad Pro (last generation now) and I really want to like but I can't - I keep going back to using a MBP.
What do you find lacking in the iPad Pro? I'm curious, because I have a 12.3" pixel slate that I'm not a fan of, because it's too big to work well as a tablet (cumbersome to hold, etc.), and inconvenient to attach the somewhat-wobbly keyboard to it, so it feels like it works well for neither use-case. I'm sure the iPad software is better, but the size seems like a contradiction.
My daily driver is my 16" MBP, and while I'm thinking of getting a plain-vanilla 10.2" iPad, I can't think of any cases where I'd want a bigger one.
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#93It'll be interesting to see if iPadOS 15 steps us any closer to laptop/desktop class usage. The biggest thing holding back iPad from being a real laptop replacement for so many is the software. It's also not as simple as porting macOS to iPad. I get Apple's hesitancy from a usability and a product cannibalization standpoint, but it's time they step things forward.
Seriously. The thing that still bites me the most is that "Share" functionality of files continues to be broken in certain apps. For example, I frequently need to save a PDF from my Google Drive app either to my local Files or the Books app. But both those options are just... missing from the iOS share sheet, even though Acrobat is there. So I have to share to Acrobat, then share to Files or Books from within Acrobat…
a workaround is to create a shortcut that shares its input, you share to the shortcut (which you set to be on the share sheet and accept anything) and from there you can share anywhere
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
The inability to run the software I need is why an ipad isn't even on my radar yet. The nicer screen isn't worth the lockdown (not to mention that the macbook air is much lighter than ipad + keyboard and cheaper too)).
The macbook air screen is ok, its webcam is horrible, it doesn't have a touch screen, so you can't use it as a "digital blackboard" for remote work, and it can't use multiple monitors. The iPad has a great front camera, great screen, great touch screen and Apple Pen, yet is software-handicapped to prevent professional use. I guess Apples' goal is for people to buy both, but I've been on the market for a new "work dev…
> Also the macbook air can only drive 1 external monitor.
That's the limitation of the GPU in the current-gen M1. It has two display encoders, one of them is connected to eDP for the internal display - except for the M1, which doesn't have an internal display, so it can be wired to external connector.
So unless they redid this part, this iPad and the new iMac will have the same limitation.
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#95The iPad doesn't need better hardware, it needs Mac OS X.
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#96Thinking of buying one and propping it up on my piano and using it for music writing and music tuition apps. Anyone tried anything like this?
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#97It'll be interesting to see if iPadOS 15 steps us any closer to laptop/desktop class usage. The biggest thing holding back iPad from being a real laptop replacement for so many is the software. It's also not as simple as porting macOS to iPad. I get Apple's hesitancy from a usability and a product cannibalization standpoint, but it's time they step things forward.
I mean, why can't you just port macOS to iPad? It's all M1 now.
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#99And... no Touch ID (unlike the iPad Air) [1][2].
I recently bought the iPad Air after having the iPad Pro and hating Face ID on it. It's bad enough that I have Face ID on my iPhone. I hate it so much.
Face ID is such a terrible UX that has caused me to enter my passcode to unlock more times a day than I care to count. Even if you ignore the fact that they don't work with masks, it's still a bad idea.
The false negative rate is incredibly high and a certain number of failures will trigger a passcode requirement and there's nothing you can do about that. That threshold is set by Apple.
Just give me Touch ID. I don't care that the false positive rate is too high (in your opinion, Apple; this was a state reason to get rid of it).
Another UX problem: when I had a home button I could exit the app by testing it. Now I have to swipe up. But which way I swipe depends on how the app is rotated. I could bring up my list of apps with a double tap of the home button. Now I have to do a weird swipe up-right-up to get the same functionality.
Just die, Face ID.
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#100How long before MacOS and iPadOS have enough feature parity that they get merged?
Probably never. The divergence between macOS and ipadOS is not technical, it's that Apple believes a touch-oriented and a pointer-oriented interface are completely different things.
I'd emphatically disagree.
Touch and Pointer are different in emphasis not user intent. User Intent can span across device classes for different contexts -- i.e. jotting notes in a long form document in a meeting vs. at your laptop in private, all revolve around making progress on a text based deliverable.
Before recent MacCatalyst developments, the UI libraries were on different continents with CC and UIKit. Now, the major differences are design limited, not API limited.
UIMenuBuilder and UIHoverGestureRecognizer tells you most everything you need to know about how Apple is viewing the touch vs. pointer environment.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uimenubuilde...
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uihovergestu...