> But the Mac’s “When do I click, when do I double-click?” issue has confused untold millions of non-expert users for decades.
I mean. Does it really, still? If so, that's horrifying as a technologist and sad.
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
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#362Within weeks, I sold the iPad v1 I bought the day it was released and I derided the iPad from that day on.
Fast forward to today, iPad Pro has been my primary device for pushing 2 years.
With a keyboard and multi-tasking it’s a far more flexible, collaborative, and portable compute experience compared to my MacBook.
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#363I do digital painting on the side, as a hobby. In that field, the iPad Pro, specifically the Procreate app, has been revolutionary -- every single famous digital illustrator, concept artist, and comics artist I follow on Instagram has one, and they post gorgeous work done on them regularly. It's the only tool that comes remotely close to challenging the gold standard workflow of Wacom tablet + Photoshop, and Wacom an…
I'm curious why iPad Pro and not Surface, which from my (admittedly limited) use has always had digitizer responsiveness and functionality at the same level, with the benefit of also being a computer with all the normal software workflow and hotkeys.
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#364Well written article. I love Gruber's realistic take on Apple more than when it seems like he is a fanboy.
>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 think that hits the nail on the head. I just couldn't believe that somehow Apple settled on this UI interaction for multitasking.
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#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
Swiping is not discoverable, but no one noticed at first because the iPhone TV ad campaigns all showed how to use it. So most people who got an iPhone already had that bit of knowledge in their brains and thought it was intuitive.
Touch interfaces have an inherent disadvantage here — there's no equivalent of 'hovering' a 'cursor' over something to see if it changes visually, triggers a tooltip, etc. Their interfaces actually need more help to be discoverable, not less . Swiping isn't even a great gesture for most uses. Earlier today, I had to delete maybe 50-100 downloaded podcasts from the Podcasts app (there is seemingly no way to do this en…
It drives me up the walls when some kind of list or collection touch UI doesn't offer any kind of batching, and most don't.
Some kind of data-selection mode where I can drag across all the elements I want to select would be awesome.
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#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
> struggling to undo what I did to get back to the business You'll love this one: to undo (don't think it works for everything, but it does for typing), shake your device rapidly from side to side.
Are you serious?
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
> Many apps allow people to shake the device to undo and redo certain operations, such as typing or deleting. When initiated in this manner, an alert asks the user to confirm or cancel the undo or redo operation.
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#367As someone who uses his iPad Pro regularly, I love all the multi tasking of the iPad. I know many have written that they have issues with multiple windows on the iPad, but for me it's never been better or easier. My main gripe is keyboard behavior which is very buggy, but not related to how easy/hard it is to make and move apps around the screen. The fact is that the iPad is only useful because of its software. In my…
Fully agree. I think Gruber’s dead wrong, and folks should try it for a couple months. Leave the Macbook or Win10 laptop at home, and force yourself to rewire your brain into the iPad affordances and apps. Aside from being able to turn his complaint off: To turn Multitasking features on or off, go to Settings > Home Screen & Dock > Multitasking then turn off Allow Multiple Apps if you don't want to use Slide Over or…
Tried to display a web demo, some custom diagramming, and a PowerPoint on conference room screen from the laptop. Unable to use the enterprise guest WiFi due to their security proxies, and the hotspot was too slow. Popped the same USB-C HDMI adapter in the iPad, and showed all the content over LTE.
Seems like a great argument for buying a Windows laptop with built in LTE, and/or pressuring Apple to add LTE to MacBooks.
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#368God I hate the multitasking, all I ever did with it was accidentally open Safari links in a new window I couldn’t get rid of instead of open them in a new tab when I mis-tapped. I turned that right off about a day after updating.
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#369The article talks about two different things:
1) Whether the iPad is revolutionary, and how in this respect it compares to the iPhone and the Mac.
2) iPad’s split-screen UX
The two are not linked in a casual relationship imho. I personally never use split screen on my Mac (and of course on my iPhone), but this has not precluded it from being a device I use almost every waking hour.
So to address the first point, the reason the iPad is not as revolutionary is because being in the middle of the two revolutionary products, it’s shares the pros and cons of both, in a way that negates each other. So the iPad is not small enough to be truly portable, but not big enough to be the perfect work horse. It will never have the same success and impact on the world, no matter its UX.
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#370I can't believe I'm the first to metion LiquidText! It's the reason I bought an iPad pro, and more than a year later I don't regret it.
If you have to collect information from a bunch of disparate documents, make comments, and share your collected thoughts, LiquidText is the absolute best.