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Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by vladvasiliu »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #566
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #515

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My monitor has a powered USB-C port and USB hub built into it. It's one cable to dock a laptop, it's pretty cool. If I could plug my iPad into that cable to use it as a Mac I would do that all the time and buy a more powerful iPad. It would be an iPad for idle browsing and a Mac for the times I need a real computer.

I don’t see any reason you couldn’t. iOS supports all of the standard USB C protocols.

Presumably because you can't use the "advanced" apps which you can use on an actual mac?

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by roysting »

That’s nice. Now how about Apple put some engineering resources on squashing the seemingly proliferating fundamental glitches all across their OSs.

I’ve recently started experiencing a new-to-me glitch where the Safari unibar just drops the input. Apparently, it’s been a thing that’s been around for several years though. How is it a thing to drop inputs in your browser and it’s not fixed at least 9 years later?

On a related note; that’s what always concerns me the most about things like AI and robotics, the frontier is constantly pushed, in spite of the rather major, fundamental flaws and glitches … as people are pushing AI and robotics into taking over everything.

What happens when the glitch is in the do not start Ai robot nuclear war routine?

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by astafrig »

moolcool wrote: post #349
lurking_swe wrote: post #327

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the developer needs to write code to detect the current profile. Most app’s don’t do this, and they explicitly ask a 2nd time. Not apple’s fault. There are some apps that get this right. Infuse recently added support for this.

It's not the end user's problem whose fault it is.

as an end user it is my problem when trying to complain in the right place

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by Brajeshwar »

user_7832 wrote: post #624
Brajeshwar wrote: post #526

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Haaa! I also paused reading at “as a kid.” I bought the 1st Gen iPad for my daughter while I was in the States for work (2010). Not a phone, big enough, and can be Internet-connected with a SIM. Lots of Games, and later my feeling of having bought something amazing was that my daughter learnt to speak brilliant English with Peppa Pig, way before her formal school started. Palo Alto Stanford Shopping (USA) › FedEx to…

> Manipur Well that's interesting having seen so many of your posts on this site, hullo quasi-neighbour! (I'm originally from Tripura!)

Awesome. Nice to have more neighbors everywhere.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by sinnsro »

tomaskafka wrote: post #234
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.

Tim Cook's fear of people not buying a full set of Apple devices for each person is the driving force behind not just the lack of multiuser support, but also the overall nerfing of iPadOS. For the past 5+ years it's been, "This will be the year of real work on the iPad," but they keep circling around it, trying not to make iPads accidentally powerful enough for someone to skip buying a MacBook.

Bean Counter Tim is going to drive Apple into the ground before he does anything useful. Just look at the current state of the ecosystem when it comes to UI/UX and software stability.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by TheAngush »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #424

If you were utterly confused, like I was, how the iPad Air M4 compares to the iPad Pro M5 and the iPad Pro M4, this 3-column comparison table from Apple's website might help: https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/?modelList=ipad-air-11-m4... The quick summary: - iPad Air has 2 stereo speakers, rather than 4 speakers as Pro models - Touch ID in top button rather than FaceID as Pro models - iPad Air is slightly heavier (?…

You left out IMO the biggest difference (and the only one I'd pay for): the Pro is the only iPad model with ProMotion (aka. 120Hz refresh rate).

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

nop_slide wrote: post #416
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…

Old ipads are great until apps start not working with the OS. I have a 2017 and Disney+ just dropped support for my current OS version and I can't update further.

Maybe the web version still works? Worth a try.
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