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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by xattt »

gxs wrote: post #206
xattt wrote: post #189

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Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.

You can probably get fairly close to do this by using an apple watch with a sim card I used to leave the house with just my watch and it was great - I could read and send text messages, email, even take calls on my watch and have everything synced up to my phone at home. You can even download music to it and pair it to your airpods. The missing piece here is just having a dumb phone - somehow I think that with some i…

My closest solution would be to piggyback off my partner’s iPhone using family watch pairing, and use my own dumbphone.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by vl »

kibwen wrote: post #169
imjonse wrote: post #135

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You can safely put 'no pun intended' after actually having no puns in the text. It can be disorienting but such is truth sometimes.

typeof(x) y = (typeof(x))x; // no pun intended

But why cast to it’s own type?

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by xattt »

thorncorona wrote: post #198
xattt wrote: post #189

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Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.

What keeps them addicted to their watch? I've never found a compelling use case where I'd willingly buy another Apple watch.

Exercise tracking is a biggie for me.

Integration with Fitness on Apple TV is extremely slick for HIIT and yoga.

Also, the third-party Intervals Pro app has been my go-to running app. I started with Apple+Nike since 2010 and a Fitbit Charge in 2015, but nothing let me customize my workouts as much as the Intervals app.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by ricardobeat »

metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

It's about 9mm which is not that thick. It really does make a difference in how you can hold it one-handed and without accidentally touching the screen. Most phones and thin-bezel tablets need to be held very carefully.

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walterbell wrote: post #222
alpaca128 wrote: post #84

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What other large brand has a simpler lineup? Samsung released 22 phones just in 2024 with memorable names like C55 and M05. Although I wouldn't mind if they got rid of one or two iPhone variants, or at least gave them more meaningful names. I have no idea what the difference between Plus, Pro and Max is. I only know that Pro doesn't mean pro, and that doesn't make it any easier. Edit: also Steve Jobs was still alive…

Google Pixel has one Tablet.

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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by theshackleford »

hankman86 wrote: post #225
metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

So that they can release a successor model with thinner bezels. In reality this may be to (1) to keep costs down and (2) to distance the iPad mini from the more premium iPhone Pro Max. All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is for? iPads are mostly used for media consumption, no matter how Apple wants to position them. Not sure why this necessitates AI hardware, but perhaps people really start using iPa…

> The comparatively small difference in screen real estate between an iPhone Pro Max and the iPad mini

Due to the aspect ratios, there are significant differences in viewable area. It is not a "small" difference at all. Once you add in the ability to deal with specific aspect ratio content, the difference becomes even larger.

https://displaywars.com/6,9-inch-d%7B19,5x9%7D-vs-8,3-inch-d...

> All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is for?

Not for everyone I would suggest. But I have people in my circle who will be very pleased. As they use a Mini as their phone/portable machine out of the house. They have little keyboard cases and use VOIP services for communication.

> but perhaps people really start using iPads for productivity/creativity workloads

Part of the appeal for most people is the seamless usage of features and functionalities across their sweet of products. People expect to be able to pick up where they left of, and have access to the same functionality as they largely do on the rest of the devices.

It's nice even if something is not your primary productivity device, to be able to execute or perform things on them if that's what happens to be in front of you at the time.

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Post by dankwizard »

amelius wrote: post #160
zoeysmithe wrote: post #122

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For me its a very nice bedside ebook reader, reddit machine, and video device. Its a perfect size for all those things, perhaps a bit too small for video but good enough. It can fit into a large coat pocket or a medium sized purse too. I keep trying to get into my kindle but just can't for some reason. E-ink is nice but being able to get a nice glowing black background with white text is really nice and the page chan…

Way more distractions on an iPad, though.

Do not Disturb mode on to disable notifications

Self control to not get distracted

I don't get this whole "Too many distractions" shtick. If you don't have the self control to swipe away from your book to sneak in a round of Angry Birds, you'll probably end up pulling your phone out every 2 minutes to check your Reddit feed

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by gcanyon »

If it were possible to do so, I would possibly buy this as my new "phone":

   - I almost never hold my phone to my ear
   - I don't need the dual-lens features of the new iPhones
   - Standby battery life seems up to the challenge
   - Apple doesn't offer the iPhone Mini anymore, which is what I'm carrying now. If I'm going bigger, why not actually go BIGger.
Things holding me back:

   - Not actually sure about the battery life
   - As far as I know you can't transfer your actual phone line to a Mini

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by nfriedly »

metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

Maybe I'm weird, but I don't mind having a bit of bezel around the screen. It makes the device easier to grab without extra touches or fingerprints on the screen. It's also a good place for cameras and front-facing speakers. (Although I don't think any iPad has front facing speakers.)
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