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  • USB-C cable shopping for an iPad or Thunderbolt 3 Mac is still a nightmare for consumers

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    Lightning is so much simpler. The wisdom behind managing their own standard becomes clear when faced with these issues.
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  • Review: Apple's 11-inch iPad Pro is stunningly powerful, with a few key limitations

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    DAalseth said:
    The limitations seem to be tied to iOS. Apple is about halfway there with a true padOS, but they need to get going and finish the split. The iPad will always be crippled until they do. No, I don't want macOS on an iPad. It's not optimized for tablet use. And no I don't want a mouse. That would be redundant. But better access to peripherals, and external volumes would be a huge start.
    You may not want a mouse, but honestly, it makes no sense to have to look down at the iPad to select something when mirroring to a larger display. The picture above makes this abundantly clear. I'd be interested to hear from Apple exactly what they intend the use case to be for mirroring in 4K. As it stands, the 4K display mirroring is really only useful as a display for audiences, collaborative work scenarios, and checking the work details you're doing on the smaller iPad screen. It doesn't begin to substitute for a real desktop environment, and the Pencil is no real substitute for a mouse either, especially given the additional steps necessary to pick it up and put it down while typing. 
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  • Apple could and should make a larger iPad Pro but it probably won't be 15 inches

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    KirbyFitBoston said:
    YP101 said:
    I don't think iOS require mouse or some sort of pointer support.
    Apple should implement new OSX to touch. OSX is getting old.
    They need shift to new area that Windows already there long ago.

    It is time to Apple introduce new touch OS11.
    This will be separate from iOS to OS11 and iPad can be increase screen size. 13-15 inch.

    The OS11 should have 2 version. 1 for full blown for Mac Pro, Macbook pro, etc.. Other for some what strip down to core function for iPad pro.(I would say IPad MAX means maximum functionality.)
    OS11 strip down version still you can install desktop application or iPad app.

    New bigger iPad should start with 6-8GB RAM, 256GB SSD up to 2TB. And microSD card for data and copy photo from DSLR.
    This platform will be true test for Ax to intel CPU. If A13 or higher can take on Intel's i3 and i5 then Apple will introduce Macbook 12' and Air 13; will be replace from Intel by year 2021 or 2022.
    Terrible idea.

    Windows touch is garbage and the UI on macOS (OS X is dead friend) is fairly detailed enough to require some scaling to work with a finger to say nothing of the gestures that people would be required to learn as Apple loves a gesture no key will learn (5 finger punch I’m looking at you). 

    Like the colored buttons to maneuver the opening of windows and so on... also Photoshop with your finger is also dumb. 

    The problem is that Apple has built too many portable machines and they overlap running to divergent OS and the iPad has outgrown it.

    iOS 11 should have mandated all EditorislChoice Apps support all multitasking features and instead we have 3D Touch 2.0. Great idea no one cared. 

    The mouse use will never happen. It’s clear the pencil is the way forward and what’s possible and mobile first on an iPhone doesn’t translate to Office, Adobe,Logic or FCP. They need these 4 universally accepted Professional Productivity Suites to work perfectly In equitable iPad version. And they don’t - the dorks have learned to love and embrace the possibility of iOS as OS but no one else wants to learn that stuff. 

    The pencil is the mouse. The Smart Keyboard needs programmable function keys and back lighting and a second shell rigid case should be sold that drives the point in laptop replacement. We have tvOS and watchOS they’ve either got this figured out for reveal later or they’re peddling garbage marketing. It’s a computer. Tablets are dead. 

    The iphone will slow slow soon and the iPad could better implemented be its successor in scale and use. 

    MY guess is the rumored convergence experiments with macOS and iOS having greater continuance functionality and that further effort is probably padOS 

    The MacBook doesn’t make sense anymore. It’s slow and standing in the way of iPads proper place in the lineup and it’s garbage.

    Why they sell a glorified netbook Now the air has launched is redundant. Kill the MacBook, fuflfil the iPads promise and follow through on the marketing.

    thst keyboard sucks. All keyboards should be backlight the end. 
    The Pencil is the mouse? How can you discuss using the keyboard at the same time as the Pencil and make that claim? What kind of sense does it make to stop typing, move one hand to pick up the pencil, then lift it to the iPad and expect to have any control over the tip to make fine edits, suspended in mid air,  then put the pencil down, and move the hand back to the keyboard? That doesn’t even make sense without a keyboard attached, and jusing the virtual touch keyboard.

    The Pencil has an important place in Apples ecosystem, but as a mouse replacement, it doesn’t work.
    GeorgeBMac

  • Review: Apple's Smart Keyboard Folio is the best option for the iPad Pro, but has too many...

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    maccad said:
    "I’m curious how anyone could use a physical keyboard without a trackpad. It would drive me nuts." The touch screen is the trackpad. Check out Microsoft's Surface Book and Surface Studio. They take a completely different approach.
    Yes, but this is exactly what Phil said was the reason they weren't making a touch screen Mac. Lifting the arm to touch the screen wasn't an ergonomic solution. So when the iPad is used in the exact same manner, suddenly it's acceptable when lifting the arm is a constant activity, whereas it would only be an occasional thing on a Mac?

    Which is it? 
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  • Samsung's foldable display smartphone could launch in March for over $1700

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    thrang said:
    Is this needed? And I suppose it’s a prototype, but it looks as thick as a waffle
    Is it needed? Some would say yes. I'd buy a foldable phone that doubled my screen size -- but in the same size folded as my iPhone SE. As a proof of concept, this is one thing, as an actual product for $1700 -- that's a completely different matter. 

    On the other hand, bringing such a product to market and learning how it fares in actual field use gains valuable insight for future developments. The original iPad was thick, and heavy, and had limited functionality compared to the iPad 2 a year later. But I'm sure Apple gained valuable insight from that first model. While I can't imagine the adoption rate would be massive here, especially for this price, perhaps there's some merit in offering it as an actual product. And who knows, despite it being the size of a Belgian waffle when folded, there might be some use case out there which makes sense. 
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