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Re: iPadOS

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Post by 1123581321 » Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 8:46 AM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #55

I've tried to use these desktop-inspired features on iPad and they are befuddling. Using two apps at once is beyond confusing. A simple use case, like copying an address from a Safari tab into Gmail via split screen requires so many mysterious, undiscoverable gestures, I doubt almost anyone is doing that. I think Jobs was right that convergence between workstations and mobile devices requires too many sacrifices, at…

I just tried this for the first time with Safari and Mail and didn’t have any issue. And when I copied the text, a set of tips popped up to tell me I can do a three finger spread to automatically copy and paste, so in the future I can just do that gesture on the left and right side to quickly move text if I don’t have a keyboard connected for cmd+c/cmd+v.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by muddi900 » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

crooked-v wrote: post #257

0x38B wrote: post #247

I 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???

This is applicable to 90% of gesture-based UI's. iPad makes it even more confusing as it is the 4th UX overhaul in 4 years.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by mistersquid » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 10:10 PM UTC

diffeomorphism wrote: post #381

mistersquid wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Differences among operating systems as identified by name and version are very important. My original specification was a small, but my response to you makes a larger point. iPadOS did not (publicly) exist prior to yesterday. Before its release, iPadOS was definitively not “then still called iOS”. Up until its release, iPadOS did not exist (publicly). EDIT: add preposition to first sentence.

> Differences among operating systems as identified by name and version are very important. Version sometimes, names no. iPadOS=iOS 13 for iPad. Or are you going to tell me that Windows 10 is much better than windows 8 because it is called windows 10 and not windows 9?

Your last comment is confusing given we're discussing, specifically, iOS and iPadOS, not Windows. Further, I have no idea what any of this has to do with "better". I was very specifically focused on OS differences as identified by names and version numbers.

To be clear, iPadOS is not the same as "iOS 13 for iPad", whatever that might mean. iPadOS comes chronologically after iOS 12 but that's about it.

iPadOS has distinct code, features, and APIs not available on iOS. Period.

Saying iPadOS is "iOS 13 for iPad" makes no sense except in the most superficial sense that it comes chronologically after iOS 12.

EDIT: scare quote iOS 13 for iPad.