Am I the only one still disappointed that with a dedicated pseudo-desktop experience we still don’t have Xcode? The iPad Pro will truly be a pro portable device when it can make its own apps.
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Re: iPadOS
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok you're right, 3 years and going strong is still pretty good.
Google’s minimum is usually 3 years. It is unlikely to get revived for Android 11. Apple on the other hand is at date of discontinuity + 5 yr hardware support.
Since the oldest Pixel phone is 3 years old we do not know if it will get Android 11 or not.
Re: iPadOS
#323I highly recommend reading the MacStories review of iOS and iPadOS 13 [1]. Thirty (!) pages. It's like the manual that Apple forgot. Case in point: you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it'll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up. Extensive coverage of multitasking features, as well. There's definitely a learning curve with all these possibilities - s…
> you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it'll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???
> I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???
What is the solution? Make people sit through a 2 hour video? Or not include functions that are hard to find?
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#324Wow.. you can finally plug in a USB drive/card reader/camera/whatever... That alone actually takes the iPad a long way towards actually being real/Pro/whatever. I sold my first Gen iPad Pro over this stuff. It was just to painful to do a lot of real world stuff that involved files. Maybe today the experience would be a heck of a lot better.
It's meant to replace MacOS eventually
Pretty sure they've specifically said that's not the case. There's always been rumors that Apple are going to switch the Mac to ARM and make it only run iOS, but this is going the other way if anything, with iPadOS splitting off from iOS.
Re: iPadOS
#325I highly recommend reading the MacStories review of iOS and iPadOS 13 [1]. Thirty (!) pages. It's like the manual that Apple forgot. Case in point: you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it'll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up. Extensive coverage of multitasking features, as well. There's definitely a learning curve with all these possibilities - s…
> you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it'll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???
The "Tips" app exists specifically to teach you about otherwise undiscoverable features.
I hate undiscoverable UIs, but at least in this case the documentation is right on the device.
Re: iPadOS
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are gestures a hard requirement to use the functionality? I already hate their replacing the home button with a gesture that fails 9/10 times to switch apps. Really ruins the ability to use the os for multitasking.
You probably already know this, but you can drag left and right on the “home button” bar, and it switches apps for you!
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, but apple has made an exception for coding apps to run arbitrary code for some years now. So, it doesn't make any sense for Apple to not allow 3rd party browsers apart from its intention for a walled garden even if it means compromising security for its users.
Are there non-Apple apps that compile and _run_, rather than _interpret_ code users can enter? Python, for example, typically gets compiled to bytecode, but the bytecode is interpreted.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or go into the finder (or iTunes), find the triangle beside the CD name, and left-click it.
I don’t think that existed back in the day, I could be wrong though. I’m thinking 1998-1999 era iMac personally.
It was definitely present in MacOS classic can’t tell exactly when contextual menu was added. But on top of that there was actually a third method, select the disk (highlight) and press cmd-E. Which now now that I think of it is just a shortcut for the fourth one, select the disk then select "Eject" in the file menu. Actually this last method must be the mother of them all, the drag to trash was also maybe one of the first "discoverable shortcut".
It’s just that "drag to the trashcan" gimmick was present since first Macintosh introduction keynote in 1984 and is still usable as of today so no surprise it’s the first answer on every Q/A.
I can’t yet skim through the footage but it might even appear in the 1984 LIVE DEMO (more emphasis needed) of the first Macintosh : https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it'll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???
Since re-joining the iOS world last year, I've been amazed at how many (often nifty!) features are the exact opposite of intuitive. I was still discovering new features either on accident or via articles, multiple months into ownership of my iPhone. Once I learned about the features many of them were great, but it's very surprising given Apple's focus on intuitiveness.
Rewriting using Raskin's theorem -
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Since re-joining the iOS world last year, I've been amazed at how many (often nifty!) features are utterly unfamiliar. I was still discovering new features either on accident or via articles, multiple months into ownership of my iPhone. Once I learned about the features many of them were great, but it's very surprising given Apple's focus on familiarity."
Ref: Intuitive = Familiar ... By Jeff Raskin
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ic is not part of battery chemistry- in case this comment isn’t a joke a common workaround would be to grab ic from dead batteries and put them on fakes.
You're right, keeping keys in SRAM and other trivial anti-tamper measures are way too expensive. Cutoffs are performed by the same IC. Should be trivial. This was a business decision for sure. Apple doesn't want anyone but Apple to work on their devices. Now maybe you can say that alone is good for resale, but it's extremely shitty for customers, especially when their attitude is to tell people they need a new board…
The issue w bogus undisclosed batteries was causing problems for apples brand rep. Many of the bulging / exploding batteries were not in the end apple.
The lie you are spreading, that you can’t use non apple batteries is false. The phone will work fine, but apple will let you know it can’t model the batteries health.
Having the phone recognize if the battery key has changed is a simple and effective way to manage this.
For MANY people, being able to rely on the apple battery health check is far more important than allowing scammers to do a cheap battery swap, sell phone with a “near new” battery, and then have customer in apple store complaining a few weeks later only to be told they were ripped off