- How about self-body scanning for dating apps? You can add it on your profile as a "LiDAR 3d-model" bonus so interested parties know they're not getting catfished. Yeah, you can always scan your hot friend, but it just requires another level of deception. - How about a "night-vision" app? Without needing a flashlight, you can stumble around a dark room (maybe outdoors at night?) without running into walls.
That's more than even high end mechanical keyboards cost.
It's only about $40 more than a Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad 2. Toss in a cover which can act as a stand, and you're probably close to the same price. Input accessories are getting pricy.
Don't forget that it is backlit and because it has power in also adds effectively an additional USB C port, thow in a case and you are well over the top. The current Smart Keyboard Folio + Magic Trackpad 2 is $310.
The front facing camera is seriously neglected. They keep on adding more powerful/fancy cameras to the rear that people likely under-use in the common case, while the front camera that is commonly used for work, video conferencing, selfies, etc remains on the wrong edge and is under-powered. It is almost farcical with the new keyboard setting the top to the non-camera edge. The front facing camera should be the premi…
I'm not sure who is taking selfies with an iPad, and videoconferencing has lots of quality concerns from compression and bandwidth issues that make camera quality kind of irrelevant. If anything, I think videoconferencing really needs to move towards more abstracted forms of interaction instead of trying to accomplish crystal clear video. Evidently, remote classrooms are finding it easier to do lectures via Minecraft…
Agreed. Even in television production, audio quality is seen as the most important part of the medium. If you lose video, the audience is not going to miss as much as if they lost audio (in most cases). This is even more true for conferencing. Of course, we didn't even have video in conferencing for the longest time.
"Studio Quality Mics" are kinda useless if you can only monitor the sound through Bluetooth :) too much latency. You'll need a low latency ADC running through that single usb-c port. Or you know, just do what the rest of the world does and use an analog headphone jack for monitoring!
Even an analog jack is pretty slow (for example, with a macbook) since it's still going through the OS stack. IMO, you really want your monitor integrated with your microphone in an external setup (such as a Scarlet 2). Then again, I'm exceptionally sensitive to monitor latency when talking, it might be fine for others.
Me too actually. Especially while singing. Anything over 7ms or so and I find it really hard to not sound like an idiot
I've already ordered one. I sold off the last of my Apple products a few years ago. Since then, the MacBook Pro has improved, but MacOS was getting so buggy that I didn't really see he benefit over dealing with Windows (also, I love WSL). iPhones with lightning connectors and no headphone jack offend me. So no thanks. Besides, have you tried the Xperia 5? But man I miss my iPad. My very expensive and high performance…
I get the feeling that ChromeOS would break your heart like it does mine. It's like most of the iPad Experience, plus the android tablet app heartbreak plus WSL wrapped into what I personally think in V82 is the best terminal app I have ever seen. It's all kinds of 'THIS IS AMAZING' while also being 'THIS IS HORRIBLE'
I think you are misjudging the "common case". The front camera is 7MP (close to 4K) and records 1080p. I don't know of any videoconferencing software that uses more than 1080p, and there's always massive compression applied anyways which would defeat image improvements. The quality is more than enough. There's also very little practical issue with it being on the side when in landscape mode. It just means that your e…
There is a dramatic difference in how flattering the angle of a photo is. Portraits should always be taken minimally at eye level, never below. Having the camera any lower makes people look uglier on video or selfies.
The Dell XPS series is awful for this; the camera is mounted below the screen, I guess to reduce the top bezel? It makes you look atrocious.
What's up with the CPU? The recent iPhone has A13 Bionic and now, half year latter theier flagship iPad has A12z?! How do both compare?
They actually do that a lot. They usually release A(n)X when there's already an A(n+1) available. Usually, the X version (or in this case, the Z version) is the same architecture as a previous non-letter architecture but with optimized and improved multi-core performance achieved with new components and likely some overclocking. They are also likely optimized to handle workloads differently since they are put in devi…
I think it's a timeline issue. They likely have skipped A13X due to TSMC's fast cadence of 7nm+ and are working on A14. I'm guessing that A14X is destined for the Mac and next iPad Pro but that's maybe 9 months out? This CPU should be an A12X + extra GPU performance, but who knows what it brings.
Do you develop on your iPad via a cloud server? How? Are there alternative development environments?
I use a digital ocean droplet over mosh with tmux and vim for some things and that works pretty well but its annoying not having vscode or sublime to use for sure
You could probably get vscode by running code-server on the VPS
To be honest, even though it is extremely overpriced, it will be a great addition to my (new) iPad Pro. This 11 inch iPad Pro has been my main machine since it was released in November 2018, and as such it has been great value for money. I am a bit of an unusual case since I’ve been using iPads to cover (almost all of) my computing and workflow needs since the release of the first iPad in 2010. iPadOS has given the p…
As pointed out by another, it is also a stand. Now I expect the mechanical work has to be pretty superb to guarantee it can keep the iPad at the angle you choose. I cannot wait for a tear down of the stand. I am a bit confused by the usb-c port for pass through charging. I would have thought a great opportunity would be to have the stand be able to wireless charge the iPad while in use but I expect the power requirem…
>Now I expect the mechanical work has to be pretty superb to guarantee it can keep the iPad at the angle you choose.
This iPad (with this new keyboard) is the first step for Apple to provide ARM powered Macbook, but now its called iPad Pro to not make unneeded noise ...