Let me install macOS on one and I'll buy it in a heartbeat. It's not "pro" until I can use a terminal, an IDE, desktop apps, etc
Exactly! It's a nice form-factor and hardware etc, but I couldn't and wouldn't want to live solely in iOS-land
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
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#342So, is Apple on discontinuing Lightning now? Will USB-C be on the next iPhone?
The writing has been on the wall for a while. They already nuked one generation of iThing connectors (two, if you count the FireWire iPods) and we survived. We will quickly get over the death of Lightning. The only people who will be seriously upset will be people owning the original Apple Pencil.
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#343I have tried very hard for the last few years to do Python development on the iPad Pro with a combination of Termius (to ssh into my home machine) and Pythonista. They are both great apps but it's not enough -- time and time again I ran into fussy little roadblocks that were taking too much time to resolve. I finally got flummoxed enough to buy a refurbished HP Elitebook 820 instead.
Mind you, I work on financial applications so YMMV. I love my Mac -- I wish the iPad was there, but it's not there yet. Great for watching Netflix though ...
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#344Apple, please make the ipadOS eco system developer friendly. I'd buy it instantly. If Visual Studio Code was available there, that'd be amazing. There is some projects[1] going on but using some non-viable workaround [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70764
Additionally, what is Apple’s vision for MacOS going forward? Presumably MacOS isn’t coming to the iPad, so is iPadOS coming to the Mac? I’m sad that MacOS may soon be meeting it’s end, and how in some weird ways, Microsoft is starting to be more Linuxy than Apple.
How would anyone develop apps for the other platforms if this were true?
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just wait until you try the front facing camera on a MacBook (in my case, the Air from 2019). It's so horrible compared to any recent iDevice from the last years. I don't understand why they don't improve them to match the mobile quality at least.
This might shed some light as to why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLgS7m0W94 tl;dr: phone webcams have DMA, laptop webcams are using USB.
I guess Apple would be in a unique position here to use their experience from mobile to make a better integrated webcam in their computers as well, without most of those limitations.
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#346Anyone here work in VFX and/or CG in the film industry? I suspect the lidar scanner is borrowing from film sets where they'll do a lidar scan to model the 3d environment. But I'm out of my depth. I'd like to know what the current pro workflow is and then speculate at how this might translate into consumers using the tool.
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#347I already had an iPad Pro + smart keyboard + pencil once... and got rid of it and switched to a Surface Pro. We still have an old 10" iPad 2 + an older iPad Mini in the house and they get use for typical iPad consumer stuff. When I add up this new iPad in the minimum 128GB/Wifi/11" config this one is about $400 more than I paid for the Surface Pro + KB cover + MS Pen. (Which is i5/8GB/128GB/Wifi-only) The Surface has…
Exactly. Good hardware, running idiotic crippled operating system, just because someone at Apple wants file system concept to be hard.
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#348I just hope it doesn't use a butterfly keyboard. Man, Apple is making home office worse than it needs to be.
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
This ^ I wish there was a way to take notes on my iPad and join the call from my iPad. This it the main thing that keeps me from making the leap 100%.
I've not tried it but wouldn't split-screen (or whatever Apple calls it) do the trick?
Kind of, it cuts video off - but audio works just fine.
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#350My mechanical engineer co-worker loves the depth sensor on the old iPad Pro. He uses it all the time to shapes into solidworks that he then designs parts to fit onto.
I'm sure he will be excited about this if the sensor is that much better.