elijahg

System settings is still much worse than the old one. A UI compromised for a small screen keeps those compromises on the big screen as well. When there's enough space to display a tab bar, use that so you can click directly on the subcategory you want.

Now, when in a setting's sub-hierarchy, you have to click back, then scroll to the category you want, then click again. For example, it's now three clicks to get to Time Machine settings, whereas it used to be one. If there was a second vertical pane on the left with an expansion of the top-level category you had selected, that would eliminate that issue in most cases. But it would look clunky, so instead we have a something clunky to use, but looks attractive. Though I'd say less attractive than the old System Preferences as well as less usable.

The 13 Pro's blue is so dull it is basically grey. Why the pro phones can't be "fun" colours I have no idea.

No one is going to upgrade an iPad that is less than 5 years old for being too slow. There are essentially zero new hardware features in modern iPads vs old ones aside from speed bumps which make little real-world difference; even battery life is identical to iPad 1. "But thinner! Yay!". iPadOS has not materially improved over the last 5 years, so no one is going to upgrade for that, either. So why would anyone upgrade from anything less than 6 or 7 years old? 

I would love an iPad, if I could install what I wanted, could compile software and it could connect to as many USB peripherals as Macs. That's not going to happen, therefore an iPad is not for me. Steve said it's better for your products to cannibalise each other, than a competitor eating into your sales instead. It's obvious Cook is keeping the iPad as little more than a basic MS Word-pad so it doesn't eat into Mac sales.

What professional editor is going to awkwardly edit anything of note on an iPad, when they could do the same thing on a Mac with keyboard and mouse in 10% of the time? FCP on iPad is just Apple's way of saying "we can" without thinking whether "we should". Everyone is well aware that iPad's hardware is lightning fast, but unfortunately that just means it's light years ahead of iPadOS. Work on the OS, not the apps.

This is ridiculously confusing for the user. It’s like the Performa days. Apple needs to consolidate a number of their product lines - especially iPad and Pencil. I wonder how many people buy the wrong Pencil and are disappointed that it doesn’t work.