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  • Preview for iPadOS 26 vs macOS Tahoe: Finally a good native PDF tool on iPad

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    The iPad should not be “as powerful as the Mac”; it should have been a different computing experience.  Now we even have menu items, towel thrown. 
    Instead of a natural human experience using fingers, eyes, voice, and a pen, we have a substandard Mac with a detachable screen that you can scribble on. 
    The “iPad experience” needed a lot more work annd imagination, and it would have turned into a useful magical third device. 
    williamlondonnubusbonobob

  • iPadOS 26 fixes nearly everything wrong with the platform after everyone already left

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    Their “fix” is to ignore the challenges of how to actually revolutionise computing with a new handheld device, and instead just made it a MacBook with a detachable screen. It makes me sad, I had hoped there really was a better way, more intuitive, more human, more tactile. 
    williamlondonStrangeDays

  • iPadOS 26 multitasking is more Mac-like with menubar, better pointer and more

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    paisleydisco said:
    sflagel said:
    They just gave up on producing a distinct tablet experience. It’s just a MacBook with a detachable screen. What a shame.
    Meh, the 'distinct tablet experience' is over a decade old and was stuck. Felt like they painted themselves into a corner. The main complaint of the iPad 'distinct tablet experience' was the lack of Mac OS features like multitasking, windowing, etc. How many times did we have to read over the last few years how the iPad Pro was a massive powerhouse gimped by the 'distinct tablet experience'??

    Anyone can still continue to use the iPad as is. Don't want the menu bar? Don't swipe down from the top of the screen. Don't want the window experience? Don't use it.

    I have been an 13" iPad Pro user since the first one. But many times felt the frustration of wishing it was closer to a Mac. This seems like a big deal for people like me. 





    Sure, but in the end, the iPad is now navigated and interacted with in the same way that a computer has been interacted with since 1992. We could have hoped for a more ambitious, “natural” UX by combining fingers, eyes, voice, and pen with AI. But they gave up, for now. 
    williamlondon

  • iPadOS 26 multitasking is more Mac-like with menubar, better pointer and more

    sflagelsflagel
    They just gave up on producing a distinct tablet experience. It’s just a MacBook with a detachable screen. What a shame.
    StrangeDaysBB92647williamlondondavgregdewmebonobobTRAGmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple's homeOS platform is coming: All the rumors, and what you need to know

    sflagelsflagel
    I dunno. Most people usually find themselves in the same room as whatever device they want to control.... Remote control by watch is pretty much the only possible improvement to life as we know it.
    williamlondonjibdewmedamn_its_hotmike1watto_cobra