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iPad, iPad Air, iPad mini, iPad Pro: How to choose the best iPad for your needs and budget...
Double "Y E A H F O R A P P L E !"
First: Yeah! For updating the Mini and making it a great product again! As the article pointed out: You can't tell how great this form factor is till you hold it (securely!) in one hand. You can't do that with any other iPad. Plus, for kids and lab coat pockets it's fantastic!
Second: Yeah! For putting out enough options where a user isn't forced to adapt their likes, needs and desires to what Apple offers. Whatever your tablet needs, Apple has an iPad for that (well -- except for the cursor/trackpad on the external keyboard)Apple nailed it with this one!
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Apple's SVP Phil Schiller hypes 2019 WWDC in rare podcast appearance
I am not a developer -- but I think you have an excellent point. Here on ai and on other forums, I often get more from the comments than from the original article. (Not the original article was not good, but the comments really flesh it out))OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
What resources exactly would be required to extend the online and recorded sessions a few minutes to include the Q&A?crowley said:
Welcome to a world of finite resources.OutdoorAppDeveloper said:About WWDC: This conference makes no sense. The expensive tickets are sold via lottery but the vast majority of developers can only stream the conference. When you stream, you cannot listen to the very important Q&A at the end of sessions, let alone actually ask your own questions. You also cannot take part in the labs and many other benefits of attending in person. WWDC has become just another Apple marketing event.
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How to get your Mac or iPhone ready before you take it to Apple's Genius Bar
And: Be patient with the "restore"A wrinkle I ran into when Apple replaced my iPhone 6+ was pairing the new phone to my Apple Watch.
When I got home I restored my iPhone from its iCloud backup and then began the process of pairing it with my Apple Watch. But, when it wouldn't pair I contacted Apple Support and they tried every trick in the book -- but it still wouldn't pair. The problem seemed to be a network thing where it just couldn't get the data from my WiFi -- it would start and then just hang. That went on for 3-4 frustrating hours till I noticed that the Health App was still being restored with my data So, we gave up.
The next day, it paired immediately and without any problem.
The issue appears to be: Even though the phone had been "restored from its iCloud backup" it was still downloading tons of data from both Apple Music to my iPhone library as well as from the health app -- and it, apparently couldn't do that and download the data needed to restore the pairing with the Apple Watch simultaneously. And, trying to do both at the same time likely slowed down both as they competed with each other.
Of note though: The Apple online support people were fantastic! Very knowledgeable and incredibly patient. I can't say enough about them.
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Highly suspect benchmarks stoke rumors of Apple-designed ARM chips for Mac
Why would it be catastrophic? Few people use any Adobe product except Reader and there are plenty of substitutes for that.nsummy2 said:These obviously aren't benchmarks for a new apple laptop but I guess good for page views and clicks. That said I can't wait to see how this eventually shakes out. I just can't imagine desktops and pro grade laptops running arm processors. Aside from the cpu, how do you handle the graphics? Apple isn't going to be able to create anything that beats Nvidia or AMD. The only way I see this happening is if Apple is creating a new class of ultrabooks that join the ranks of what microsoft is trying to accomplish with windows on arm.
On top of that, what happens if software performance is terrible on the arm chips? It would be catastrophic for Apple if an Adobe product worked twice as fast on x86. Like I said, it will be interesting to see how all of these factors are addressed. And I'm just scraping the surface.
Apple is about meeting people's needs, not performance specs.
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Highly suspect benchmarks stoke rumors of Apple-designed ARM chips for Mac
While that is likely true, I suspect the majority of Mac users would simply shrug --- because they don't use them. Increasingly the only ones using MS-Office are those who need it to be compatible with their office. For the rest, Apple's free look-alike products will do just fine.melgross said:
Despite what many people think, most apps are not a recompile away. Yes, small, simpler apps may be. But think about all of the demo’s we’ve seen over the years from software developers who, on stage, said; ...and we did this in one weekend, it was so easy! And then the actual app didn’t arrive for 6 months. Because it’s NOT so easy. Recompiling for a different chip family is never easy.jkichline said:Seems to me that if you’re going to transition to ARM, you need enough horsepower to handle x86 emulation for apps not recompiled to support ARM. I suppose this would be trivial to recompile existing apps using an updated version of Xcode, or to compile iOS apps to Mac soon which already using ARM instructions.
The instruction set is different. Some instructions aren’t even similar. X86 is Ciscier, while ARM is Riscier. Moving from one to the other is not simple for bigger apps. So big apps such as Office, and Photoshop, and Final Cut will have to run under emulation for some time, at half speed. We’ve seen this several times now, so don’t be surprised.
putting these into a Macbook, which uses a weak CPU could work, because this would be a lot more powerful, so that emulation would be fine. Big apps likely wouldn’t suffer much.
