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Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by tzs »

daft_pink wrote: post #48

No Face ID, not interested.

I would have said the same thing a few months ago. I had Face ID on my iPhone X, Touch ID on my 6th generation iPad, and had had Touch ID on the iPhone 6 Plus I had before the iPhone X.

My experience with those left me firmly in the "I really would rather have Face ID than Touch ID on my future iPhones and iPads" camp.

A few months ago I replaced the 6th generation iPad due to a heavily degraded battery. The replacement is a 10th generation iPad. The Touch ID on it is a vast improvement over what I'd had on my previous iPad and previous iPhone.

For example it used to be that after washing my hands Touch ID would often have trouble. Apparently when I dry I don't always completely dry my fingertips.

That's not a problem with the new Touch ID. It even has no trouble if I run water over my fingers and then try to unlock the iPad without drying the fingertips at all.

Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by wslh »

drcongo wrote: post #99
wslh wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you don't live in Argentina though. Web3 was just an example. Also remember that Coinbase was a YC startup. You comment basically proves the point of this thread! Everyone lives in their own echo chamber.

Cryptocurrencies aren't really "Web3" though are they. Web3 is all the absolute rot that people have tried to glue onto a blockchain just so they can tick a buzzword box. NFTs are still a scam, even in Argentina.

There is no super formal definition of these terms, people think on different things when they hear about them. Even cryptocurrencies could not be crypto.

I will not start arguing about NFTs, it is enough to say that the technology is useful in one place and not in another and help people to transact internationally.

Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by jraph »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #98
jraph wrote: post #83

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On Android, support time is insanely crap. But when Apple support does end, it's game over. I picked up an iPad 2 (from 2011), it's perfectly capable hardware, although a bit slow, but it's only usable for browsing HN and viewing PDFs because one can't upgrade the goddam browser or install an alternative one. Updates ended in 2015, mostly. I could upgrade a One Plus X released in 2015 to Android 7 (Lineage 14.1). An…

You just compared a tablet from 2011 with a phone from 2015. That's a pretty apples to oranges comparison. How available are Lineage OSes to Android tablets from 2011?

The Samsung Galaxy S II (a phone) released late 2011 had official lineage 14.1. There are unofficial builds of lineage 19 today.

That's a particularly good situation, I don't really know how was Android back then, but in any case Android still allowed installing alternative browsers, allowing devices to be useful long after updates stopped. Firefox was still installable on android 4.4 recently enough. So there's that.

But again, that's still just bad either way, I expect better from hardware. 4 years is awfully short and I don't quite care if Android was better or worse. Apple controls everything, how come it was only capable of 4 years of updates? It's unacceptable, and the usual two or three years of updates on stock Android too, of course.

Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by Zambyte »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #40
Zambyte wrote: post #28

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It's a toy after they stop updating it in a few years and you can no longer run new creative software for no good reason. In my book that makes it a toy today too.

You’re blasting Apple for their obsolescence? The company that has gone out of their way to support phones and tablets _far_ longer than their competitors? Okay, Jan.

Yes, I am blasting Apple for locking down the machines they sell such that no one can "support" them besides themselves.

Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by throwitaway1123 »

blipmusic wrote: post #74
dagmx wrote: post #23

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It’s funny seeing the disconnect between the HN community and the creator communities. The creator communities at ecstatic about this. The HN community seems to have difficult seeing uses outside their own niches. There are tons of types of “Pros”. The entire event was art focused. It’s not a toy for the artistic crowd.

> There are tons of types of “Pros”. Regardless of our personal professional affinities the only reason iPadOS stays locked down is that it's simply more profitable to sell a customer two devices instead of just one. I would love to have an iPad Pro as my only home computer, but it's just not doable due to its OS limitations. The artistic angle is just Apple's way to make the platform believable. Why would an artist…

> the only reason iPadOS stays locked down is that it's simply more profitable to sell a customer two devices instead of just one.

Not only do they want to sell you an iPad and a separate computer, but they would ideally like to sell your family multiple iPads, which is why you can't have more than one user account on an iPad (unless you have a business or educational account with Apple [1]).

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...

Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by SirMaster »

trwhite wrote: post #52

Gah. So it looks and functions more or less like the last one, albeit a bit faster? Consumer tech is so boring - Nobody dares do something even a little different

Different how? I feel like people often say they want something different without at all describing what exactly they want different.

And then think whether that different thing is technologically feasible and economical and what % of the population would also actually want it.

Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by zincmaster »

I own M1, A10X and A12X iPad Pros. I have yet to see any of them ever max out their processor or get slow. I have no idea why anyone would need an M4 one. Sure, it's because Apple no longer has M1s being fabbed at TSMC. But seriously, who would upgrade.

Put MacOS on iPad Pro, then it gets interesting. The most interesting thing my ipad pros do are look at security cameras or read ODB-II settings on my vehichle. Hell, they can't even maintain an SSH connection correctly. Rediculous.

I see Apple always show videos of people editing video on their iPad Pro. Who does that???

A 4 year old Chromebook is 3x as useful as a new iPad Pro.

Re: Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

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Post by nolist_policy »

alephnerd wrote: post #38
itsoktocry wrote: post #35

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> A Windows workbook or a Chromebook sucks from a UX standpoint Subjective, but sure, valid. Both of those systems have more flexibility. > Pricing is comparable to a MS Surface or Chromebook Pro. Yes, and I wouldn't be buying one of those for light reading or taking notes in Notion, either.

> Yes, and I wouldn't be buying one of those for light reading or taking notes in Notion, either. I'm using it for work, so I am either getting it reimbursed or provided by my employer (in my case), or if I'm running a solo business/self employed (as plenty of creators are) you can get tax credits and a partial reimbursement as it's being used for work as well. Like I mentioned before, the target demographic is Creat…

Come on, a Chromebook is just as secure as an iPad.
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