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Re: iPadOS

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Post by baby »

I’ve been using this for several months now, I am still confused about the hand gestures I need to do to make multi tasking work. Everything has been very confusing to me, and it’s been hard finding information online as it was a beta.

Re: iPadOS

#3

Post by ben7799 »

Wow.. you can finally plug in a USB drive/card reader/camera/whatever...

That alone actually takes the iPad a long way towards actually being real/Pro/whatever.

I sold my first Gen iPad Pro over this stuff. It was just to painful to do a lot of real world stuff that involved files.

Maybe today the experience would be a heck of a lot better.

Re: iPadOS

#5

Post by finkin1 »

I wonder why they aren't advertising mouse support. This seems like one of the most useful features to me. They didn't mention it on the keynote and I can't find it on their website anywhere.

Any thoughts on why Apple wouldn't be pushing this as a major advancement for iPad?

Re: iPadOS

#6

Post by prashnts »

ben7799 wrote: post #3

Wow.. you can finally plug in a USB drive/card reader/camera/whatever... That alone actually takes the iPad a long way towards actually being real/Pro/whatever. I sold my first Gen iPad Pro over this stuff. It was just to painful to do a lot of real world stuff that involved files. Maybe today the experience would be a heck of a lot better.

Adding to the whatever list, you can also use USB Optical drives with a powered hub (just tried yesterday). It appears in Files app. Seems like they’ve finally implemented proper usb stack.

Re: iPadOS

#7

Post by mrpinc »

finkin1 wrote: post #5

I wonder why they aren't advertising mouse support. This seems like one of the most useful features to me. They didn't mention it on the keynote and I can't find it on their website anywhere. Any thoughts on why Apple wouldn't be pushing this as a major advancement for iPad?

The mouse support is supposed to be focused on accessibility for people with disabilities, it's not everyday user focused.

Re: iPadOS

#8

Post by saagarjha »

baby wrote: post #2

I’ve been using this for several months now, I am still confused about the hand gestures I need to do to make multi tasking work. Everything has been very confusing to me, and it’s been hard finding information online as it was a beta.

They’re iPhone-style gestures for the most part, except some of the Slide Over/Split View stuff requires a bit more work. The beta broke some of these too so if you were using that I’d try to use those gestures again and see if they do what you want.

Re: iPadOS

#9

Post by radnor »

prashnts wrote: post #6
ben7799 wrote: post #3

Wow.. you can finally plug in a USB drive/card reader/camera/whatever... That alone actually takes the iPad a long way towards actually being real/Pro/whatever. I sold my first Gen iPad Pro over this stuff. It was just to painful to do a lot of real world stuff that involved files. Maybe today the experience would be a heck of a lot better.

Adding to the whatever list, you can also use USB Optical drives with a powered hub (just tried yesterday). It appears in Files app. Seems like they’ve finally implemented proper usb stack.

You can connect quite a few things via the Camera Connection Kit (CCK) which has a USB port in it. MIDI controllers and USB soundcards are two things I've used recently.

Re: iPadOS

#10

Post by cfors »

Cool, but nothing about any focus on making the machine realistic for development.

My current MacBook Pro is getting a little long in the tooth and after suffering through the 2016 and later versions at work, I will not be buying one of those until the keyboards are fixed. If iPadOS has first class terminal support I would consider making it my full time machine.

Looks like the waiting game will continue.

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