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darkvader said:

What a silly article.

The Surface is a computer.  Not a great computer, but an actual computer that you can install any software you want on it.

The iPad is a toy, stuck in a walled garden app store.

You're absolutely correct. 
If only apps like these





could be available on the iPad app store.

Oh, wait....

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CiaranF said:

Tried listening to a few songs with Dolby Atmos and didn’t like it. With AirPods Pro I found it sounded more mono and actually prefer the stereo version. Anyone else agree?

I listened to a few tracks and they sounded horrible. 

I saw a difference on the Marvin Gaye's "What's going on" with Zane Lowe's comments superimposed. 
Mono --> Stereo was noticeable 
Stereo --> Spatial not as much, but I wouldn't say that it sounded worse than stereo. 

I have the Beats Studio 3 which is probably not the best set of headphones to sample this. 

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dotcomcto said:

I really want to hear Apple announce that M1 apps from the Mac App Store will be able to run directly on the M1 iPad Pro. I just don't get the purpose of a 16 GB RAM/1 or 2 TB M1 iPad Pro unless the device will be able to run Mac apps (vs 8 GB RAM/256 or 512 GB models). I suppose I get it for high end video editing, but other than that, I don't get its purpose otherwise.

I think Apple will, but not the way you think or hope for, or anyone seems to be aware of. 

It seems obvious to me that Apple will make the iPad Pro instantly dual boot: as soon as you’ll connect your mouse or an external screen, iPadOS will offer to switch to macOS, effectively converting you 13” iPad in a 13” ‘MacBook’. Why not? That wouldn’t be a compromise, for the screen as well as the rest of the hardware of the iPad Pro is perfectly capable of running a desktop class OS…   

Disconnecting you screen could simply offer you to return to iOS…

It surprises me that no one else on the internet seems to consider this possibility…?

It’s been mentioned here dozens of times. And still It’s an incredibly stupid idea, like all the merging of macOS and iPadOS ideas. 

I don’t think you’ve read my comment. I’m explicitly NOT talking about merging. I’m talking about being able to distinctly run either macOS or iPadOS on the same device. The iPad Pro (especially the 12.9” version and more especially the exorbitant 16Gb 1Tb+ version) is ready for it.

OK how do you handle it then?
iPad docked in magic keyboard ==> running MacOS.
Undock the iPad and ==> MacOS goes to sleep and iPad OS wakes?
What happens to your Excel spreadsheet in MacOS? It goes to sleep when you undock and don't have access to it any longer because you're now in iPad OS and the Excel version for that OS, is strictly sandboxed? 
What happens to you mobile bank app in iPad OS if you suddenly sit down and dock your iPad to the Magic Keyboard? It disappears? Are you expecting it to automatically transition you to the bank's web page? 
All of this may sound easy but am quite certain that it will cause major headaches to the software engineering team that takes up that challenge, not to mention app developers. 
In the end, if you want a lightweight MacOS device, then MacBook Air may be your best bet. If you wait 'till October you may even get a smaller lighter redesigned for Apple Silicon version of it.  

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Apple gets to make all the decisions for how a customer can use their iOS devices. Why should RAM be any different? Apple firmly believes that people are just not smart enough to make decisions like "this app is really important to my work so it should be able to use all the RAM." or "I need to manage my personal network so I am going to let this app see the MAC addresses so it can track and identify the devices I have connected to it." You absolutely can't make a decision like "I don't like all of Apple's restrictions so I will install this third party App Store."

With the iPad Pro, the user has one and only one decision to make. Storage capacity.
a) 128 GB
b) 256 GB
c) 512 GB
d) 1 TB
e) 2 TB

All this talk about RAM is pointless.
If you’ve been visiting the brothers over at MaxTech, they have videos comparing 8 GB vs 16 GB of RAM, albeit on a MacBook. 
The performance differences are negligible, no matter what they throw at them.
Why would the iPP be different?

Correction, they do compare iPP of varying RAM:
https://youtu.be/ivwnTVHkBCI

crowley said:

Heh, I had a suspicion that some of my notifications were getting lost, good to have it confirmed.

Huh?
Your presumed lost notifications were confirmed by some anonymous used on ZDNet?