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The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by jyounker »

telesilla wrote: post #561
TheKarateKid wrote: post #508

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> “Developers will always surprise us, they will come up with use cases for us." Well, they did. iPads are now replacing POS registers and kiosks. Although a part of me dies when I see iPad Pros being used for this, because it’s so powerful and capable yet being used as a big touch monitor.

Same for musicians: many of us have an iPad for displaying scores due the superiority of the screen legibility in varying environments, and app support. I use mine almost exclusively for piano scores - I couldn't live without it. Doubling as a Netflix host on flights is a bonus.

Yeah, one of the primary uses of my iPad was learning to read music.

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by jandrese »

danlugo92 wrote: post #572
derefr wrote: post #497

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Putting something into your Safari Reading List saves it for offline access. If you want to read a webpage later on mobile (and it won't parse through Instapaper/Pocket for some reason), that's probably the way to go, vs. leaving it open as a tab. Though, admittedly, I never got it to work right at actually using the offline-snapshot versions of pages when I was, er, offline. Even though it clearly had them taking up…

Shouldn't this be handled by website developers via PWA-related tools? Think about it, if you're website is meant to work offline (and safari cannot know this), you can implement the necessary code for it to work offline (e.g. web.whatsapp.com)

For me it's often something like a manpage I have had to find via Google. The web developer isn't thinking about stuff like that because it's a pure Web 1.0 static page that normally doesn't need anything like that.

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by s5l8900xrb »

ellis0n wrote: post #579
Fr0styMatt88 wrote: post #483

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I still remember people saying that the iPad was just going to be a big iPhone and what is the point? I NEVER understood this. I was one of those people that was immediately excited about the iPad. Being able to lay back in bed and casually browse the web, read magazines, watch movies, play games? On something with a decently large screen, decent battery life and something that wasn't bulky? PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY!!!!…

Xcode is too expense for iPad by minimal hardware requirements. Animation CPU should be good for dev apps too https://twitter.com/acpustudio

What a strange mindset. I’ve used compilers on the original iPhone itself. My main computer is a core 2 duo MacBook from 09 and the latest Xcode runs fine

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by ellis0n »

jarjoura wrote: post #480

As someone who worked on the iPad v1, I can tell you, it was a product built in search of a problem. It was going to compete against the, then, growing Netbook market. Steve Jobs thought Windows was going to win that market and hastily threw a team together to answer for it. However, during several all-hands, no one except SJ seemed even remotely excited about the product. "These things will probably sell in the educ…

Thanks you for iPad v1. iPad hardware has made possible Animation CPU software. I'm developer and I love iPad as development tool. iThink future for iPad is comming soon...

https://twitter.com/acpustudio

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by ellis0n »

s5l8900xrb wrote: post #583
ellis0n wrote: post #579

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Xcode is too expense for iPad by minimal hardware requirements. Animation CPU should be good for dev apps too https://twitter.com/acpustudio

What a strange mindset. I’ve used compilers on the original iPhone itself. My main computer is a core 2 duo MacBook from 09 and the latest Xcode runs fine

I tried XCode on iPad via remote desktop several years ago. UI is unusable on iPad, too small elements, please check screenshot:

https://acpul.tumblr.com/image/116464494150

About hardware, I used multiple configurations from Snow Leopard and XCode grows to godzilla while years. Xcode eat all free space on my Macbook Pro'18 256G and can crash randomly, lost iPad connection, etc. I don't want to see this on my iPad. I have mac for XCode.

PS: In same words, mac for more serious work, iPad for more creative and less serious work.

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by gumby »

telesilla wrote: post #561
TheKarateKid wrote: post #508

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “Developers will always surprise us, they will come up with use cases for us." Well, they did. iPads are now replacing POS registers and kiosks. Although a part of me dies when I see iPad Pros being used for this, because it’s so powerful and capable yet being used as a big touch monitor.

Same for musicians: many of us have an iPad for displaying scores due the superiority of the screen legibility in varying environments, and app support. I use mine almost exclusively for piano scores - I couldn't live without it. Doubling as a Netflix host on flights is a bonus.

Definitely, but I like to write on my scores which I can’t do on my iPad.

The big iPad Pro made a difference here too. The older iPads so t get enough music on the screen.

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by [deleted] »

Fiahil wrote: post #269

I completely agree with this article. The iPad hardware is absolutely wonderful, it's light, gorgeous and powerful. I got the latest iPad pro to watch Netflix in bed and it fills that purpose completely. However, the OS running on the machine is bad. Very bad. The multitasking is horrifying. The Files app is unusable (especially if you want to access your files from an FTP server). You have to use your finger to sele…

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Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by [deleted] »

aksss wrote: post #494
amiga_500 wrote: post #488

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Itunes was utterly terrible. My iphone is terrible. Apple make very, very bad software. And their hardware is overpriced. And they deliberately make people pay more for accessories like their pointless new audio port. Android is superior in every way, except (I'm told) on privacy. I cannot comprehend why anyone buys apple. I have to have apple for my work phone, and I hate it. Just today I was wrestling with their dr…

> Find in page on a web page First question is where the F is it, second question is why the F did they put it there?

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Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by Dylan16807 »

danlugo92 wrote: post #572
derefr wrote: post #497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Putting something into your Safari Reading List saves it for offline access. If you want to read a webpage later on mobile (and it won't parse through Instapaper/Pocket for some reason), that's probably the way to go, vs. leaving it open as a tab. Though, admittedly, I never got it to work right at actually using the offline-snapshot versions of pages when I was, er, offline. Even though it clearly had them taking up…

Shouldn't this be handled by website developers via PWA-related tools? Think about it, if you're website is meant to work offline (and safari cannot know this), you can implement the necessary code for it to work offline (e.g. web.whatsapp.com)

Expecting the page to stay open until the tab is closed isn't normally considered to be "working offline". The main point of a PWA is being able to navigate offline, not just continue to exist.

Re: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

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Post by munk-a »

gowld wrote: post #571
munk-a wrote: post #456

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I agree with this - I feel like Windows has gotten much better at catering to delivering (or allowing other people to deliver) more targeted UX improvements. Once upon a time Fences was a requirement to be alive - now instant searching in the start menu means I hardly ever see my desktop - similarly universal key combinations (and global key capture) have let things like media keys really take off - being able to pau…

How do you get search to work? For me, Windows Search Indexer just uses 100% CPU forever.

Oh sorry - I almost never use search in the context of documents - I use it for programs I need to pull up. I don't need a document search all that much as I generally store things by project and am only ever working on a modest set of files at a given time.

If you're looking for a good finding utility I might suggest grepwin[1] which does a great job finding things fast.

1. https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html

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