elijahg

So Apple is finally friendly with Nvidia again?

MplsP said:

Fred257 said:

If this is the case it being intentional then Apple needs to be broken up as a company. This clearly is meant to be used against consumers who want to boot from a cheaper alternative to Apples exorbitant and outrageous internal hard drive rip off.

Why would you routinely want to do so? I can see the complaint about cost, but even the smallest drive Apple sells is more than adequate to hold the OS and applications. Why not simply do that and have an external TB drive for data?

Because who wants to drag around and faff about plugging in an external drive everywhere they go with a Macbook?

The main issue though is iPad OS is still just big iOS. Give me macOS on iPad and I would get one tomorrow. Yes a mouse-driven UI is not ideal with a finger, but almost everything is still at least possible to do, whereas the many, many things that don't fit into Apple's idea of what an iPad is for are essentially impossible on iPad,

AppleZulu said:

I’ve been pointing out in the various ‘iPhone fold’ threads that a foldable iPhone is a ridiculous gimmick that won’t happen, but a large screen foldable iPad is something that actually makes sense. It’s a simple concept that has a reason to exist. 

Naturally the “analysts” and rumor writers can’t be satisfied with that sort of simplicity (despite simplicity being the hallmark of Apple design forever) and have to raise the MacBook hybrid nonsense, presumably to generate clicks. 

There will be no hybrid, nor is the purpose of a folding iPad to create a fan-fiction form factor that makes an iPad running a ‘variant’ of iPadOS more Mac-like. 

The purpose of a folding iPad is to make a large screen iPad portable. That’s it. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

I'd agree that foldable iPad is more sense than a foldable phone. I have a friend with a Samesung galaxy fold, he's had it for about 6 months and it seems quite robust, but the screen is scratched and there is a very obvious hump where the crease is. The colour shift is very noticeable around the crease too, I would not be happy with that. The constant folding and unfolding seems like a real faff too, he barely uses the external screen because the internal one is obviously a lot bigger - and the external one seems to be LCD not OLED for some reason. If the iPad had that same crease it would be a real distraction and annoyance imo.

coolfactor said:

It is a confusing time in the Apple Universe... software updates promoting features that just aren't available on older devices. 

All I want is the glowing border for Siri on my 13 Pro, and it just won't appear. I'm so sad. 😞 

Not only that but in the UK at least, they were advertising Apple Intelligence from the day of the iPhone 16 launch like it was usable right now, without it being available at all on any device until yesterday. I'm very surprised the advertising standards agency didn't tell them to cease and desist.