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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by rconti »

mckn1ght wrote: post #313
rconti wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The mini feels like an abandoned product. In landscape mode, the keyboard takes more than half of the screen. UI elements are routinely covered up in various apps. For example, in Flighty, the flights "drawer" cannot be hidden in the way it can on the iPhone. This is probably fine in a larger iPad, but on the Mini, it covers more than half the screen, meaning it HIDES THE AIRPLANE ICON of the flight you're track…

Have you tried using the floating keyboard? I exclusively use it on my iPad not only for saving the screen real estate but also because I can swype on it (even though I can touch type on the big on-screen keyboard just fine; I still find it more convenient to swype with one of my thumbs, or the pencil https://support.apple.com/en-us/111789

Thanks! I haven't -- or, at least, not in a long time. Wow, the UX is terrible! I accidentally first dragged my kyeboard into split mode before reading the instructions. Then I've managed to get it into floating but it was hard to re-dock, and the first few times i tried to move it anywhere, i got some unintended feature enabled. Yikes.

I'll have to remember to use it next time i'm bothered by it covering some control. I still haven't made friends with swype, but I do use it occasionally.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by gregoriol »

What is going on with Apple's ratio on the iPads: all the original models had 4/3, then iPad Air 4 and iPad 10 got ~4.3/3, then iPad mini 6 got ~4.5/3

What could be Apple's rationale on this? why so many slightly different formats? and why those, they add black bars or crop to most normal content... pictures from the camera for example are still in 4/3 so they are cropped in Photos, videos are in 16/9 so they still have black bars, ...

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by tigereyeTO »

metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

Bezels are good. Bezels are GREAT. They give you something to hold without interacting with the screen.

If you've ever used a device with edge-to-edge, you know you have to hold it like a diva with 10-inch nails—it is neither comfortable nor effective.

In my opinion, the industry's trend towards smaller-and-smaller bezels has made it MORE difficult to interact with them than the advances gained by having a few millimeters larger screens.

Leave the bezels alone, bud

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by guestbest »

0x38B wrote: post #183
Syonyk wrote: post #128

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Most of the modern "dumbphones" (or "feature phones") would do this just fine for you. If you want one that can survive anything life will throw at it, look at the Sonim devices - the XP3+ (flip) or XP5+ (candybar). They're Android Go, have exceptionally good (week and a half, easily) battery life, hotspot just fine, and handle actual use a lot better than the KaiOS toys out there. Maybe 3.x is better, but KaiOS 2.x…

I used a KaiOS device for about 6 months. My expectations weren’t high, but texting and T9 input were a mess: A) I had to manually enter captital I, apostrophe, and ‘m’ every time I wanted to write “I’m”. B) New words (like brand and place names) displace common words in the built-in wordlist - that is, T9 gets worse the more you use it. It was still an OK digital minimalist/detox device - the GMaps web app with voic…

Funny, but for number one in your list, PalmOS 3 could do that in 1998 on a 16mhz 32 bit Motorola processor. It was just one of those attention to details that made the platform so nice to use.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by freedomben »

wildekek wrote: post #439
gcanyon wrote: post #269

If it were possible to do so, I would possibly buy this as my new "phone": - I almost never hold my phone to my ear - I don't need the dual-lens features of the new iPhones - Standby battery life seems up to the challenge - Apple doesn't offer the iPhone Mini anymore, which is what I'm carrying now. If I'm going bigger, why not actually go BIGger. Things holding me back: - Not actually sure about the battery life - A…

> I almost never hold my phone to my ear Please tell me why people do this.

When you around other people (so speaker phone is inappropriate) and don't have earbuds.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by rowanG077 »

tigereyeTO wrote: post #464
metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

Bezels are good. Bezels are GREAT. They give you something to hold without interacting with the screen. If you've ever used a device with edge-to-edge, you know you have to hold it like a diva with 10-inch nails—it is neither comfortable nor effective. In my opinion, the industry's trend towards smaller-and-smaller bezels has made it MORE difficult to interact with them than the advances gained by having a few millim…

What's wrong with virtual bezels? Seems to me to be the best of both worlds. People who can't handle an ipad without bezels can just configure whatever they want.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by freedomben »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #173
giancarlostoro wrote: post #60

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Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.

I have a mac, absolutely love it, hate windows and yet my next laptop will be windows because of that. You don't realize how much it matters until it does, and then it changes everything. Always having to carry an external drive just because my email takes 150gb of the 256gb MacBook storage is even more annoying than windows puting candy crush saga on the start menu.

If you hate Windows, you should really consider Linux instead. Gnome is quite enjoyable and can be relatively easily made to behave similarly to the macos DE. Fedora works pretty well OOTB on most hardware. If you buy as Frame.work[1] laptop, Fedora will install and run very well.

[1] Dislaimer: I'm a community investor in Framework but have three of them because I like them a lot.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by freedomben »

gregoriol wrote: post #463

What is going on with Apple's ratio on the iPads: all the original models had 4/3, then iPad Air 4 and iPad 10 got ~4.3/3, then iPad mini 6 got ~4.5/3 What could be Apple's rationale on this? why so many slightly different formats? and why those, they add black bars or crop to most normal content... pictures from the camera for example are still in 4/3 so they are cropped in Photos, videos are in 16/9 so they still h…

This is especially amusing to me because back in the day when iOS developers would shit on Android, they almost all said (verbatim) "fragmentation" as the reason why iOS was great and Android sucked. "On Android you have a bunch of different screen sizes to deal with so it's hard to make a nice app. On iOS it's all standardized and simple. That is the Apple Way and the whole ecosystem is consistent like that which makes it a joy to develop for and use."
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