The average real person's work is nothing like the average HN person's work. It's like comparing a Toyota Corolla to a dump truck.
I'm sure the iPad Pro is just fine or better for the vast majority of real people's computing needs.
Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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I don’t use Final Cut so not sure if it supports split screen, but even apps that require full screen can be multitasked with Stage Manager now. So you can go do something else. I don’t love Stage Manager, but I use it from time to time for this exact purpose — do something else while a full screen app is also running.
Final Cut does not support split screen multitasking or resizing. and you can't switch away from it while it's exporting to answer a slack message or browse the web, it will just cancel the export. https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/24/final-cut-for-ipad-limitation...
Interesting, the full screen apps I use just keep going when switching window in Stage Manager, whereas some tasks are normally suspended when switching without Stage Manager. What about slide over? Link doesn't mention it, and Slack can be easily used in a slide over window.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#333He could've gotten a switch
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You don't have to use iCloud. You can use local storage, or any cloud provider, or SMB/CIFS.
would also be nice if webdav could just be mounted. i mean caldav and carddav are supported in base os, whats the problem?
I don't know about WebDAV but it does let you mount SMB shares.
If you need WebDAV I think Documents by Readdle will do it, and maybe even makes the share available to other apps though its File Provider. But I'm not sure what parts of Documents are subscription based now since I have a paid copy from before it went subscription.
It even has the option to keep a local copy of folders from network shares so you can use them offline, which is a pretty handy feature if you're working with large files or don't have a cellular iPad.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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#337> But if you need to run Xcode, VSCode, WebStorm, or Intellij than as far as I can tell the iPad is a no go. > It's expensive. After buying a powerful pro model, a decent keyboard, and a pencil the price ended up being MORE than a laptop I could have used for even more coding activities. 5m of research could have shown this... i think this product is only good for artists who needs a specific ipad app or someone who…
I don't know, when I impulse bought my iPad Pro a few years ago to supplement my laptop that stopped charging, I did about 15 minutes of research and found a lot of people claiming that you can comfortably code on an iPad Pro. That turned out to be completely untrue for my use cases, but it would've taken a lot more than 5 minutes to figure that out. That said, the iPad Pro is my biggest mistake I've never regretted.…
> That turned out to be completely untrue for my use cases, but it would've taken a lot more than 5 minutes to figure that out.
Couldn’t you figure that out when you noticed that it doesn’t have any IDE you’ve ever heard of, and no compiler or runtime for anything? I know there are iPad for coding advocates out there, but it really doesn’t even take 5 minutes to figure out that the developer experience is completely terrible, as evidenced by the lack of any developer tools.
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#338Boggles the mind why people still fall for the iPad Pro as a serious work machine beyond writing meme. The fact that Final Cut launched on it recently and while its exporting you have to sit there leaving the app open you can't go do something else is the punchline of the decade for the lie that this is a serious machine. This is before we get into the comical evolution from "You just need the touchscreen" to "Actual…
you can split the app screen to allow it to work if I recall correctly
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Ok buddy lol
So find one mainstream review that gushed about how cool an Intel i9 ran or how quiet it was. I couldn’t find one.
Who talked about i9? And were did the part about battery life go? I could easily find one but you'll keep moving the goalpost.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#340iPad pros are such good media consumption devices, and also very good note taking devices, you can draw diagrams and also use apps like obsidian.