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Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by eptcyka »

swiftcoder wrote: post #54
dylan604 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends on how you look at it. While the hardware might keep functioning and current software might keep running, some devs also deprecate their software. I have an old 6S+ that I keep software that I don't want to install on my actual device. Slack informed me that it will no longer function after a date set later this year. Other apps have already stopped working on it because the devs do not want to deal with it.…

> TL;DR sometimes it's not Apple, it's the app devs that deprecate them. Are the app devs deprecating just because their support matrix is too big, or because current SDKs will no longer build apps compatible with those devices? I think the later case is less common on the Android side of the fence, but Apple is not great about keeping old versions of the dev tools functional, and you end up needing to keep elderly M…

I cannot buy a device without resorting to Ebay to test my app on iOS 17. There are still bugs that manifest themselves on real devices and not on the simulator. And some APIs are just broken on the older releases.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by pjmlp »

thewebguyd wrote: post #157

The iPad Air is in such a weird spot. Heavier than the Pro, 60Hz, but more Ram in the M4 Air than the M4 Pro? It makes no sense. Who is this for?

Ideally Apple would finally do their Surface/2-1 with iPads, but Apple being Apple, rather sell an overpowered tablet, and a Mac laptop to go alongside with it

Some places even do a bundle "discount".

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by nozzlegear »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #8
vintagedave wrote: post #4

My current iPad is the iPad Air 3 (the one with the backlight issue that's never been acknowledged, to my understanding.) Can someone explain to me why an iPad at all, let alone an iPad Air, needs as powerful a processor as a M4? That's stronger than my laptop (a M2) where I run multiple VMs and more.

In theory an iPad is a computer and then you could run whatever you want on it. So maybe the better question is, why can't you run whatever you want on it?

They make those, don't they? They're called MacBook Air?

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by jcims »

nothercastle wrote: post #38
Aurornis wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The newer CPUs are more efficient and faster. In a mobile format you want the CPU to process everything as fast as possible and then return to a low power mode for battery life. Apple re-uses the same core across their lineup because it’s cheaper to build 100 million of the same core than to design and maintain two separate CPUs that go into 50 million devices each.

The cpu is better but the software is worse and more bloated so they fight against each other

This sums up my entire experience with technology progress over the past 40 years.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by znpy »

sccxy wrote: post #160

Can you connect it to USB-C/Thunderbolt monitor/dock and use it with keyboard and mouse?

I was about to ask the same. I'd like to get an ipad for the same purpose. The iPad pro can for sure, but I don't want to spend ipad pro money.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by pjmlp »

geodel wrote: post #152
usui wrote: post #147

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Is it really worth going after a market known for people who buy things? Do companies like money?

I mean they can add Linux developer friendly features. This way they can sell literally dozens of iPads for hardcore developers.

They sell them to hardcore Apple developers.

Developers isn't synonymous with Linux, or UNIX like for that matter.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by jmyeet »

I have an M3 iPad Air. I only upgraded after my M1 iPad Air 4th generation (IIRC) stopped turning off and it was way too expensive to get a replacement board.

I am desperately clinging on to these because they still use TouchID. Words cannot describe how much I hate FaceID as a person with poor vision. When I'm forced to use it on my iPhone (which is all the time), I have to move it away from my face or I get the "Try again". Super-annoying.

But it gets worse: after a certain number of unsuccessful tries, you're forced to use your passcode anyway and FaceID has false negatives ALL THE TIME.

It's even worse on n iPad form factor where the iPad often isn't facing you directly. It might be attached to a keyboard, on a stand, on your lap or on your chest (when lying down). Many of these angles just don't naturally work with FaceID.

If only Apple would give me a FaceID OPTION on an iPhone.

I haven't bought a keyboard or anything. If I wanted a device to work on in any way, I'd still use a Macbook Air. But I do love my iPad Air.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by nozzlegear »

jbellis wrote: post #150

When the M1 ipad came out I said I'd upgrade from whatever my model year 2020 ipad is once I could run a Linux VM on it without rooting it. Still waiting.

Why did you get an iPad if you wanted to run a Linux VM? Wouldn't a Macbook Air have been a better choice?

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by css_apologist »

Archit3ch wrote: post #140
css_apologist wrote: post #21

This is an incredible piece of hardware, I just don't know what to do with it how is music production on it these days?

It runs PlugData, the plugin version of Pure Data! You can easily bring down the best iPad processor with the circuit~ object. ;)

i've been meaning to checkout pure data, this is cool thanks for sharing
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