jony0

Finally, screen sharing on iPad !!!
I hope it really means what it suggests, I certainly hope it also includes remote control for support of friends and family.

prokip said:

It's called the "Doctrine of Latches", pronounced la-chease from the French. It's about a delay in bringing an action to the court that affects the fairness of the claim by Apple.  But it only helps to defend against any "equitable" remedy sought by Apple not a legal contactual claim such as damages for breach of contract.

But what friggin delay is there between something allegedly done on 1 November 2019 and a claim filed in March 2021, 16 months later?  From what idiot law school did this guy's counsel get his qualifications?  Back of the cornflakes packet?

Actually it's called the "Doctrine of Laches", pronounced latches from from Old French laschesse, presumably pronounced law-shess.
In current French lâche, pronounced law-sh is a coward, lâches is simply plural cowards and lâcheté is cowardice.

Hank2.0 said:

Hallelujah!!!! Added a mute button  and got rid of that pesky touch pad ! 

I think she mentioned that it is still there in the middle of the circle like the old one.

OctoMonkey said:

If Apple wants to make a fundamental improvement, add a Thunderbolt/USB port for adding an external camera.

Just put a bloody USB port on it already ! This is on my wish list since Gen 2 ( I had a Gen 1). It would cost close to nothing to bring much more functionality.
A port for a camera is fine but all I would want it for is an external drive to play an entire library of digital movies. I live in the woods with slow internet so streaming is always sketchy. Things most of you with hi speed can take for granted are difficult here. Just playing a playlist coming from the cloud rather than locally is a silly concept and hit or miss with some lag, and then you can forget about photos from Photos. Steve Jobs said while introducing Gen 2 that the people don't want so sync anymore (from iTunes), but he wasn't thinking of us with slow speed.

That's it ?!?
A media browser, phone links and password tweak for a full number revision ?!?

StrangeDays said:

zimmermann said:

I still have the feeling that Apple is not really working on iWork to make it something to replace MS Office. 

They’re different tools. iWork is designed primarily for individuals. Office is designed for...office use. Different audiences, different ways of working. The ease of use in iWork is preferable to me than Office. But if I have to build a document with VBA & form elements, Office is that tool.

Agreed although I can't disagree much with zimmerman.

StrangeDays said:

sidrictheviking said:

Love Pages and Keynote. They’re both so intuitive and versatile — I use them mostly on iPad, hardly ever on iPhone or Mac. Never use Numbers, other than for opening Excel documents from time to time. 

I use both Numbers and Excel. Work uses Excel, but I use Numbers personally. To me the multiple tables-based layout in Numbers is vastly superior to the single-table sheet in Excel. I can crest so much nicer worksheets when they aren’t all tied to the layout of a single table. 

That's exactly my use case, tables as an elegant movable object in Numbers and Excel at work in close conjunction with MS Access for import & exporting to & from users with VBA for some validation, automation and formatting. I really like Numbers for personal use but I do miss VBA-like functionality although I've not yet got into AppleScript, it's a bigger leap for me whereas most of my work involves a lot of VBA in Access. I also use Pages but stil have go to the older pre-web compatible version when I need to find and replace special characters for cleanups (or do it in Word). Any revision is always welcome of course but his almost featureless full number revision is disconcerting as it makes me wonder if they will ever bring that feature over … along with many other missing things.