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My 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.
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I have never seen a person take a picture with an iPad using the rear camera. What I want from the front camera is mostly good light sensitivity and color rendition. I don't need more than 1080p video on it though. It feels like it should be possible without making it very expensive. If it isn't possible, then for an iPad I'd sacrifice ALL the rear camera functionality for just a slightly better front cam, in a heart…
in my experience it is very popular to do in older demographics.
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
Apple has come around to basically just outright copy the Microsoft Surface. It does look very nice though.
The part they didn't copy is the software, because the Surface is little more than windows on a tablet still. The tablet life sucks, the interaction is poor, the performance slow and buggy (esp in comparison), but Windows makes a great dev OS. It's funny how different they are.
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What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.
Cmd + . actually acts as Escape key on iPadOS. It’s not a replacement for a physical escape key, but I don’t find it too hard to adopt.
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 didn't really see he benefit over dealing with Windows What possible nightmare bugs could macOS have that would lead you to this claim? I'm really curious. They'd have to be big ones because I've been developing on Lin/Win/Mac for 6 years and nothing comes close to the pain of developing on Windows.
Honestly, Apple software and machines have way too much magic locked away and hidden. This was acceptable to me when everything was perfect, but those days are gone. I check the Apple support forums from time to time. MacBook keyboards come to mind.
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 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…
It does support files on external storage devices now with the USB-C port. It also supports SMB shares, which is great since I keep most of my stuff on a NAS and can access it over my VPN. Developer tools are an obvious weak point, but FWIW I sold my Surface to buy an iPad Pro a few years ago and I'm happier with this. Considering an upgrade from 2016 model (9.7" with lightning) to the new ones. It wouldn't work as m…
And it's not just external storage devices. It was always such a mess.
E.x. with the Camera connection kit on the iPad Pro:
- My Canon 5D worked
- Go Pro cameras did not work
- My external card readers didn't work (which could take the cards from the GoPro), sounds like maybe they fixed this
I could go on and on, Apple chips away a little by little at what works and what doesn't work. But meanwhile life goes on with OSX and Windows where everything just works. I used the iPad Pro for 2-3 years.. stuff just improves glacially on the iPad, that's the issue, they fix like one or two things in a year and you still have a list of 25 things that are a PITA.
Some of this stuff with USB-C is tough. There's no way I'm going to buy a new $3000+ camera to get USB-C for example.
That's the marketing slogan for the new iPad Pro.
Indeed, it's not a computer. Anything that does not let me compile and run programs for the platform itself is not a computer, it's a toy.
There's nothing wrong with toys, of course. I enjoy video game consoles, handhelds just as much as I enjoy the iPad.