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New iPad Pro ad hammers home Apple's ongoing laptop replacement theme
With all due respect for people’s natural rights to request improvements from Apple, I believe that the shortcomings of iPad are over-emphasized. None of these are dealbreakers.entropys said:I was around in 1984 Andre. The usability of the Mac compared with IBM PCs was so unbelievablely wonderful, any other deficincies, minor as they were, were irrelevant. Because Daleks.
The ipad doesn’t yet offer enough of a marriage between functionality and paradigm shift to justify Apple’s claims. Bu fear not, the problem is software limitations, which can be fixed.
The usability iOS is so unbelievably wonderful that Steve Jobs made the iPhone a reality, just remembering that will resume all that reality distorsion field saga.
Apple has no claims to be justified further, hundreds of millions of sales prove that. Attacking the platform just on the basis of a marketing narration is futile, because the products are there, sales reports are there and there is not even a competition in the iPad case after eight years.
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New iPad Pro ad hammers home Apple's ongoing laptop replacement theme
iOS DOES have an open file system. Every app’s every file is open to every other app. Simply its organization is different. It just doesn’t have the desktop metaphor, that’s all. For those who want to access to kexts, drivers, daemons and alike, the point is for what? Get a conventional computer for deep UNIX work, on that sort of computer called iPad, the operating system does not permit to access its guts, take it or leave it...
If the point is to easily assemble files in folders per project or task basis, then there is the Files app and iCloud. One no longer needs to keep Pages documents in the Pages app’s directory, these days have long gone. Yet iOS does not prevent anyone from using third party file storage and sharing systems, such as Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive. There’s no sharing in Cloud Drive but alternatively Apple provides full collaboration in its productivity apps, which is multiple times better than that primitive form of collaboration called file sharing.
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Here are the five biggest iPad Pro problems, because no device is perfect
Did the iPad had that DA converter on the foldable keyboard? I was talking about headphone jack on that creative keyboard with trackpad and mouse someone most probably is thinking to patent and crowdsource on Kickstarter after so much publicity... HDMI and other display adapters exist since the release of the iPad but people mostly use AirPlay over their AppleTV and I mentioned that because it is more familiar than an adapter.mac_128 said:
Oh sure, there’s no need to look at the large, luxurious 4K display, which makes the thumbnail photos much easier to see and select — but sadly she has to look down, taking her eyes off the big beautiful display, and shift them to the much smaller iPad display, shifting her focus, reorienting her gaze, and relative position from that on the monitor, maybe even having to count the thumbnails to make sure she selects the correct one, adjusting her eyes to the different brightness of the displays, as she shifts back and forth. That’s not exactly instantaneous, far from it, and far from desirable. It’s a much less efficient way of doing that particular task.macplusplus said:
I understand some people cannot chew and walk at the same time but that person apparently is able to select the photo on her iPad and view the full photo on the attached monitor instantly. She absolutely does not need to look at the large monitor to swipe through photos and select the photo she needs, does she?mac_128 said:
Your recollection is correct — @macplusplus is wrong as usual. This is from the keynote, an Apple marketing still which inadvertently demonstrates exactly what’s wrong with not having a pointing device. Notice where her eyes are looking. Her only choice is to keep shifting her eyes from the larger display where her attention should be, to the iPad to confirm her fingers are positioned correctly for what she wants to select, then back to the display to view it. That’s not a productive solution. Yet, Apple clearly intends this as a use case with an external display.lorin schultz said:
He said he can edit video on an IPHONE. Did you just overlook that or does the iPhone actually support the Pencil now?macplusplus said:
There is Pencil for that.lorin schultz said:
"Easily," yes. Accurately, no. Fine adjustments are difficult using a finger on a small screen.lowededwookie said:
[...] I can edit video on an iPhone just as easily as using iMovie on the Mac
I did watch the Keynote and I didn't get that impression. To me it looked like just using one possible application among many as an example. Assuming I misunderstood and that really is Apple's sole intent, it seems like a whole lotta tech, effort, and expense for not much payoff.macplusplus said:
If you'd watched the Keynote you'd know or you already know that the reason to attach a 4K monitor to iPad Pro is to follow iMovie edits in real time 4K, since the iPad's own display is not 4K.
And you may have discovered recently with astonishment an iPad display on large screen but people do that since eight years on their TV monitors. It is called AirPlay.
But whatever fuels your narrative.
It may astonish you as well, just as your mind must be reeling from the fact that an iPad Pro still has a DA converter despite the lack of a headphone jack, that the iPad has always had the ability to output video in screen mirroring mode to a hardwired display since the original iPad, long before AirPlay was a thing. Did you have a point? -
Here are the five biggest iPad Pro problems, because no device is perfect
I understand some people cannot chew and walk at the same time but that person apparently is able to select the photo on her iPad and view the full photo on the attached monitor instantly. She absolutely does not need to look at the large monitor to swipe through photos and select the photo she needs, does she?mac_128 said:
Your recollection is correct — @macplusplus is wrong as usual. This is from the keynote, an Apple marketing still which inadvertently demonstrates exactly what’s wrong with not having a pointing device. Notice where her eyes are looking. Her only choice is to keep shifting her eyes from the larger display where her attention should be, to the iPad to confirm her fingers are positioned correctly for what she wants to select, then back to the display to view it. That’s not a productive solution. Yet, Apple clearly intends this as a use case with an external display.lorin schultz said:
He said he can edit video on an IPHONE. Did you just overlook that or does the iPhone actually support the Pencil now?macplusplus said:
There is Pencil for that.lorin schultz said:
"Easily," yes. Accurately, no. Fine adjustments are difficult using a finger on a small screen.lowededwookie said:
[...] I can edit video on an iPhone just as easily as using iMovie on the Mac
I did watch the Keynote and I didn't get that impression. To me it looked like just using one possible application among many as an example. Assuming I misunderstood and that really is Apple's sole intent, it seems like a whole lotta tech, effort, and expense for not much payoff.macplusplus said:
If you'd watched the Keynote you'd know or you already know that the reason to attach a 4K monitor to iPad Pro is to follow iMovie edits in real time 4K, since the iPad's own display is not 4K.
And you may have discovered recently with astonishment an iPad display on large screen but people do that since eight years on their TV monitors. It is called AirPlay.
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iPad Pro 12.9-inch review: Putting Apple's 'pro' claim to the test
Attaching a keyboard to an iPad is a compromise on portability and ease of use, as well as on battery. The iPad is designed to be used without attached keyboard and I am writing this on an iPad laying flat on the table. It is not different than typing on a hardware keyboard. That keyboard/trackpad/mouse/macOS issue was resolved years ago with 12” Macbook, which provides the power of macOS in an iPad footprint/portability. Apple releases clearly defined, complete and consistent products, not toaster/fridges.canukstorm said:
For millenials a keyboard is an area on the screen with the alphabet acted upon with two thumbs. There is also a weird clickety clack one on dad's desk...
