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I know is a massive overkill, but how is the experience of reading books (pdfs)on the iPad Pro ? (Reading books on a laptop is a pain and phones are too small)
ePubs are nice too, since they can reflow.
To me, it doesn't matter how powerful the iPad is if the software experience is subpar. Multitasking is cumbrous enough that it might as well not exist, multi-display setups can only mirror at a fixed aspect ratio, it lacks multiple user profiles requiring a family to be under a single user, and the few apps that take advantage of the keyboard/trackpad are nowhere similar to their desktop counterparts. Take Excel for…
> "...gesture-like latencies in between to get it to work." i hate that animations on ios are i/o blocking. every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses, which means i have to erase the whole thing and do it more slowly since the missing keypresses are essentially random (not just the final one or two). another related annoyance is alert popups that occur more than…
Wow, I have the same trouble, but I thought it was because my iPhone was old and thus the screen was damaged.
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Maybe it's not even about more performance, it's simply about economics of scale. It's cheaper to just make more m1 chips than to create a new process to create a worse m1-mobile version. Paradoxically you might get more speed for less cost.
Their entire current lineup has all 8 cores plus 7 or 8 GPU cores too. I was thinking that they'd sell a 6-core M1 in the AppleTV, but I guess that's not happening and the package is too big to go in a phone. Given their die size and even amazing return rates, there are hundreds of thousands of m1 chips that simply aren't being used. That seems like a lot of waste for a company that talks about going green. Maybe the…
And... no Touch ID (unlike the iPad Air) [1][2]. I recently bought the iPad Air after having the iPad Pro and hating Face ID on it. It's bad enough that I have Face ID on my iPhone. I hate it so much. Face ID is such a terrible UX that has caused me to enter my passcode to unlock more times a day than I care to count. Even if you ignore the fact that they don't work with masks, it's still a bad idea. The false negati…
Touch ID doesn’t work for me, doesn’t recognise my fingers most of the time. Die, Touch ID.
To me, it doesn't matter how powerful the iPad is if the software experience is subpar. Multitasking is cumbrous enough that it might as well not exist, multi-display setups can only mirror at a fixed aspect ratio, it lacks multiple user profiles requiring a family to be under a single user, and the few apps that take advantage of the keyboard/trackpad are nowhere similar to their desktop counterparts. Take Excel for…
I personally think multitasking works great, but I guess that's subjective. The claim about external screens is not true though, as a developer you can put anything you want on an external screen, mirroring is just the fallback behaviour. Almost all apps obviously take advantage of the keyboard, and 100% of apps where it makes sense. The trackpad can also be used in all apps, although it is true that not all apps are…
as a developer, not a user. I can’t have two different apps running on different displays, nor can I take advantage of the display’s resolution. In practice, everything is mirrored.
> Almost all apps obviously take advantage of the keyboard
When I say take advantage of the keyboard and mouse, I mean to offer shortcuts/navigation akin to what you’d find on a desktop.
I don’t mean to say that apps should be exactly like desktop apps, but the iPad UX is making it harder to use the current iteration of document/spreadsheet apps.
There are things the iPad does strictly better, of course. But I don’t see these experiences as mutually exclusive.
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"Touch screens are an anti-feature" – I guess you don't have a smartphone then? The benefit is obvious: if you were the kind of person that previously had a laptop and an iPad (iPads / touch screens are nice for all sorts of things, esp. for say artists), then an optimal solution would be a device you can use as both. An iPad Pro that could run macOS and have a keyboard case with trackpad seems ideal. Or if you're th…
> I guess you don't have a smartphone then? I'm participating in the Astro Slide crowdfunding campaign specifically so that I can have a smartphone without necessarily needing to use a touchscreen.
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> "...gesture-like latencies in between to get it to work." i hate that animations on ios are i/o blocking. every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses, which means i have to erase the whole thing and do it more slowly since the missing keypresses are essentially random (not just the final one or two). another related annoyance is alert popups that occur more than…
> every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses Wow, I have the same trouble, but I thought it was because my iPhone was old and thus the screen was damaged.
The product page is up indicating 128GB base storage and an interesting RAM note: > 8GB RAM on models with 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB storage > 16GB RAM on models with 1TB or 2TB storage
Does anyone know what the reason for this might be? (doubling the RAM because the SSD is larger) Also are there any performance implications to this? Should I get the 1TB version for the 16GB RAM because it'll be a snappier machine and more future-proofed?
I'm hoping this leads to an announcement of some kind of hypervisor support in iPadOS 15. I would imagine that would come at WWDC if it's coming. Seems like it would allow software development on the iPad while retaining app sandboxing.
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> "...gesture-like latencies in between to get it to work." i hate that animations on ios are i/o blocking. every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses, which means i have to erase the whole thing and do it more slowly since the missing keypresses are essentially random (not just the final one or two). another related annoyance is alert popups that occur more than…
Have never noticed this, but I have "Reduce Motion" enabled in Accessibility settings.