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The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by wlesieutre »

bradleyankrom wrote: post #218
wlesieutre wrote: post #211

> Oh, and apps that aren’t in the Dock can’t become the second app in split screen mode. What sense does that limitation make? I've heard people say this before, as if there's no way to use anything but your permanent dock apps in split screen. But if it's not in the Dock, you launch it, and now it's in the dock. That's why the recent items section on the right side exists. My personal gripe with iOS multitasking is…

I’ve had an iPad for over a month now and still can’t figure out how to close the second app when I am in split screen.

You can't close it one at a time when it's in a split view pair, it only lets you close the whole pair together. If you just want to kill one of them, first you have to grab the middle divider and push it all the way to one side or the other to make either app full screen. The other app becomes backgrounded.

Once they're separate, you can close them from the app switcher by swiping them off the top of the same, same as an iPhone.

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Post by rusk »

dredmorbius wrote: post #193
itsaride wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the “find on this page” function? Type a word in the search bar on a page then scroll to the bottom of the overlay that pops up.

The advantage of a keyboard-initiated search is that it works in all apps (or damned well should). Mind: on Android, with a keyboard (bluetooth), poor app support is frustratingly apparent. Even where basic keyboard input is recognised, obvious things don't work as expected. In Pocket, the backspace/delete keys won't delete tags. In PocketBook (an eBook reader), hitting space when entering a search term (which cannot…

yes android physical keyboard support is completely useless.

I bought one of those foldy keyboard android tablets thinking I could use it as an about the house small laptop, but the issues you describe, and yet others, made it an utterly futile exercise.

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Post by AgloeDreams »

m4rtink wrote: post #81
ghaff wrote: post #66

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The main exception is drawing. It essentially replaces touch sensitive Wacoms.

This is unfortunatelly very true - Ipads have the best oen latency from mobile tablet devices & good software ecosystem (Procreate, etc.), likely thanks to overall more $$$ in iOS software development. There are Android tablets with precise pen support, but especually the cheaper ones don't have that good pen precision (jitter, lag) and also the available drawing software is not as advanced as on the iPad & powerful…

I always felt the problem for android drawing tablets was that it was a three horse race and the anti-Apple was not Android here but the Surface.

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Post by AgloeDreams »

e_proxus wrote: post #91
cm2187 wrote: post #4

Text selection is the most broken thing to me on an ipad. It makes any kind of editing pretty much unusable. Great device to browse the web from my bathtub and watch movies on a plane, but haven’t found any other usage.

My favorite pet peeve is trying to edit URLs in the address bar in Safari. Just trying to get the cursor to the end of the address field a an error prone chore. Often the text is select and there’s no way to unselect it. Then of course it doesn’t help when you want to remove some components of the URL that Safari helpfully autocompletes back to the URL you jus visited.

Two fingers on the keyboard, it turns into a cursor control. You're welcome :)

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

wlesieutre wrote: post #201
CarlRJ wrote: post #145

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IIRC, the Pencil 2 requires different (and likely more expensive) support in the screen, as well as docking to the side of the iPad and charging magnetically - both of which raise the costs for the iPad. And then the lower cost models wouldn’t be so lower-cost any more. It does feel like they could have thought ahead a little better on that, though. FWIW, the Pencil 1 isn’t a -bad- stylus - it was hugely praised when…

Docking to the side and charging magnetically doesn't just require magnetic charging hardware, it requires a redesign of the iPad to not have curved sides. So far that's only the 2018 iPad Pro. I had figured this would spread to the other iPads ASAP because of the Pencil 2, but they seem happy to drag it out for a couple of years.

Charging magnetically on the side of the host device is neat, but not required. A separate charging dock would work too.

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Post by ihuman »

bradleyankrom wrote: post #218
wlesieutre wrote: post #211

> Oh, and apps that aren’t in the Dock can’t become the second app in split screen mode. What sense does that limitation make? I've heard people say this before, as if there's no way to use anything but your permanent dock apps in split screen. But if it's not in the Dock, you launch it, and now it's in the dock. That's why the recent items section on the right side exists. My personal gripe with iOS multitasking is…

I’ve had an iPad for over a month now and still can’t figure out how to close the second app when I am in split screen.

Slide the border between apps to the left/right end of the screen

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by amelius »

jwr wrote: post #20

This is a very good take on the subject. I love the iPad, I use it all the time. It's an unbelievably good piece of hardware with a number of really good software applications. It is a surprisingly good thinking and note-taking tool, it's the best tool (period) for reading datasheets (or any large PDF documents), it is a great music workstation if you connect a MIDI keyboard and/or an external USB audio interface. Bu…

> it's the best tool (period) for reading datasheets (or any large PDF documents)

Sounds intriguing. How would I go about copying the PDFs that are currently on my Linux PC onto it, though?

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Post by bronco21016 »

alopex_plenus wrote: post #74
bronco21016 wrote: post #45

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If all of them disappeared into thin air one night then nearly the entire global aviation system would come to a screeching halt. It’s the device of choice among air carriers for navigation charts. Paper backup isn’t even carried anymore. We just carry extra iPads and batteries. I’m not sure any of the charting apps used by air carriers are even available on another OS at this point. I’ve never been aware of JeppFD P…

so the captain tells us to switch off all electronic devices and then proceeds to navigate the plane via iPad?

The pilots’ devices are selected to airplane mode as well. Many carriers do allow WiFi to be turned on and have a separate WiFi network onboard that allows for operational access. Mainly weather.
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