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Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by pjmlp »

musictubes wrote: post #522
thewebguyd wrote: post #187

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I don't think even Apple knows what they want to do with the iPad. I could buy the "companion device" niche for a while until iPad OS 26 came along, which took away most of the "touch first" multi tasking and replaced it with a model that heavily favors mouse and keyboard use. I actually use my iPad less now since the update, because I still primarily used it as a tablet, I don't even own the magic keyboard/trackpad…

Apple has no idea what the iPad is for but somehow they sell 20 million of them a year... Apple has been very clear what the iPad is "supposed" to be. It is a touch screen computer. Between its form factor, touch first OS, built in camera, and possible cellular capabilities it can do a lot that a Mac can't do. Something as simple as walking around with it and handing it to someone like a clipboard opens up a million…

Pity that Apple cannot envision anything better than Playgrounds for coding on the go, it fails rather short from Dynabooks vision.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by e28eta »

giobox wrote: post #299
dewey wrote: post #263

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In my household we have two Apple TVs sitting next to each other, and two remotes with the names of my partner and mine on them as most apps don't properly support profiles so that's the easiest solution. If they do that so people buy more devices...it's definitely working.

I also ended up doing this. With HDMI-CEC powering up the TV and the receiver automatically, then switching to the correct input on any AppleTV remote button press, this is actually a really friction free option if you can stomach buying two devices for the same purpose. I put the remotes in different colored rubber cases (red and blue) to make clear which device is being operated. At one stage I even had a third App…

Probably the only apple platform whose price point is low enough that I’d be on board with this idea.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by spiderice »

Tade0 wrote: post #524
musictubes wrote: post #520

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No software? DaVinci Resolve? Affinity Designer? Final Cut, Procreate, AUM, Logic Pro etc etc etc. As the processors get more powerful more demanding software can be made for it. Running multiple physical modeling AUVs along with FX loops eat up clock cycles. Final Cut Camera on iPhones along with Final Cut on an iPad allow for full multi camera controls and recording from 4 different iPhones with ProRes and log shoo…

Procreate for one is not that CPU hungry. My SO's 4th gen iPad runs it just fine.

The Procreate UI literally tells us otherwise. When you create a new image, it tells you exactly how many layers it will allow you to have based on the dimensions you set. This number is smaller for older iPads.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by __patchbit__ »

davio wrote: post #67
spudlyo wrote: post #18

I'm about to head to the gym with my 12.9-inch 2017 vintage iPad Pro, which is still going strong. I prop it up on the elliptical trainer every other day or so for entertaining me while I grind out an hour of cardio. I use it for reading, watching YouTube, listening to music, audiobooks, etc. It's been my regular gym buddy for years, and is showing no signs of needing to be replaced. It's stuck on iPadOS 17.7.10, whi…

I have an iPad 4 that is now a single purpose scorekeeper for darts

Would be good for all players to punch the score in on their own iPhone and see the score on the common iPad.

Or, to use an app on the comfy smaller pocketable hypothetical iPhone and to see on the paired iPad when wanting the luxury of a larger display

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by johanvts »

rvanmil wrote: post #319
johanvts wrote: post #302

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Do you mount it on a stand? my neck hurts just thinking about going through a full workday on an ipad.

I’m using the iPad Magic Keyboard which is also a stand. So it’s pretty much the same as using a MacBook. I do have the 13 inch. I tried the 11 inch but personally I found that too small to use comfortably like this.

Makes sense, in my head an iPad is 11”, I don’t think I ever saw the 13” version IRL.

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Post by girvo »

moolcool wrote: post #214

The iPad would go from a never-buy to a buy-right-away for me, if they added user profiles. It'd be a nice thing to have on your coffee table, where anyone in the household can pick it up and be logged into all of their stuff. Windows XP had this feature. Chromebooks have this feature. It's inexcusable that such an expensive gadget can only have one user.

The funny thing is that my Apple TV has profiles! Surely the iPad can too.

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Post by stingraycharles »

isodev wrote: post #174
HaloZero wrote: post #155

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You'd be surprised by the horsepower some games require, my wife plays Love and Deep Space and she recently just bought a new iPad because the game requires some good specs and a LOT of storage space. She's not a "serious gamer" as your parlance.

But the iPad is not a console … it doesn’t even do Steam. All that horsepower to play … a couple of forever titles and that’s it. I have the M1 iPad Air and it has never used that processor to its fullest. I think iPad is just an odd device for most people

You’re forgetting just how convenient a tablet is and how little average people care about the latest and greatest triple-A games.

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Post by stingraycharles »

MerrimanInd wrote: post #328

The iPad and MacBook teams have been in market competition for nearly a decade now while clearly Apple corporate strategy has been trying to nerf each line to prevent them from actually competing. It's an artificial tension that gets more pronounced as the devices get more capable in other ways and the induced limitations are more glaringly obvious.

Things are only to get more interesting with the MacBook with an A chip instead of an M chip, and the MacBook Pro with touchscreen later this year.

I fear at some point we’re going to lose macOS.

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Post by kristianp »

stingraycharles wrote: post #588
MerrimanInd wrote: post #328

The iPad and MacBook teams have been in market competition for nearly a decade now while clearly Apple corporate strategy has been trying to nerf each line to prevent them from actually competing. It's an artificial tension that gets more pronounced as the devices get more capable in other ways and the induced limitations are more glaringly obvious.

Things are only to get more interesting with the MacBook with an A chip instead of an M chip, and the MacBook Pro with touchscreen later this year. I fear at some point we’re going to lose macOS.

Hopefully linux support improves by then to take the defectors if MacOS goes away.
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