djsherly

Brightness fluctuating might be due to covering the sensors with you hands whilst playing? I’m not sure I’ve seen any app adjust brightness... seems like it would be an OS level thing for mine.

rogifan_new said:

To me all these reviews are basically truck owners reviewing a car complaining the car can’t do everything their truck can. Does Nilay Patel actually want to replace his laptop with an iPad Pro? Just because iPad Pro doesn’t meet everyone’s workflow doesn’t mean it can’t meet some people’s workflow. I get some of the frustration from people who want iPad to be their only computer (excluding their phone/smartwatch) but it seems a lot of reviewers have no interest/intention of iPad being their only computer. I’d like to see more reviews either from people who use iPad as their primary device or people reviewing it for what it is, not something else.

Well to be fair Apple are now directly comparing this car to a truck. It’s faster than 92% of them after all. 

As a person who may have heard that this iPad thing could possibly become your primary computing device don’t you think it’s fair and reasonable to contrast the two experiences? 

That the USB connector is now there and what it means, what it can and cannot do?

That the underlying filesystem is not exposed and Flash drives don’t work necessarily as they do on the truck? 

That you may need new headphones?

From an existing users perspective, sure, it’s easy to compare and contrast vs what has gone before but I didn’t mind Nilays review. My biggest bugbear is filesystems and default apps. Each of these is easy to work with on the truck. It’s a non-user serviceable part on the iPad.

In particular, Files, while it more or less gets the job done, is just super clunky. Not necessarily the app itself which it well done, but actually using it within apps. Is the files bit baked into the app, do I need to see it on a share sheet? Do I need to add my file provider (OneDrive, iCloud, Google drive) to the share sheet? Has this app added support for my file provider? 

The default app app thing I can live with but again I need to uses that share sheet shim to get files into google mail to send. 

Its stuff like that which mitigates against bein a desktop replacement and it is absolutely correct to point it out. 

Despite that, I’ll be getting one because in other ways I am far more productive in my iPad than otherwise. 

Mike Wuerthele said:

davgreg said:

radarthekat said:

Apple disrupting yet another industry: college textbooks.  Without even directly taking action.

I have an iPad Pro and use it quite a bit, but hate it for this kind of thing. Tablets are simply awful replacements for pencil and paper or for textbooks. 
It is not a matter of unlearning and adapting, they just suck like a Dyson for that purpose.

And as a Michigan fan, I hope those iPads are waterproof. After Purdue spanked the Buckeyes on national TV Saturday they will be crying the rest of the season.

I'm not excited about the iPad as a pen and paper replacement, but completely disagree with you on textbooks and other learning & reading materials.

Heh. I’m completely the other way! I find it infuriating having having the same device for reading and note taking. Flicking back and forth between apps all the time drives me nuts. 

There something about eBooks which seems less then optimal to me. Maybe it is all that context switching you have to do when you have an AIO like the iPad. 

Taking notes on the iPad OTOH is great. I just use it as a straight pencil and paper replacement and that seems to work fine for me. 

maestro64 said:

I read he claimed to creating a two button mouse, I think Steve stole the idea Xerox and they had a two button mouse, but Steve knew it could be done with one button. What an accomplishment.

It *could* be done with one button. And a modifier key. That modifier key was *already on the mouse*. So instead, you have to locate the modifier key on the keyboard. Two devices required to perform a single action.

Why get rid of it?

dont get me wrong. He got a lot of things right. In my view the single button mouse was not one of them. 

sflocal said:

My friend is a Surface Book fan and when we went on a diving trip a couple years back, bringing our respective mobile devices (I brought my MacBook Pro), his Suface Book was so unreliable, would randomly freeze that at one point, he literally slammed his mouse on the display in frustration that I thought he was going to break it.  

Just pieces of junk.  People must really hate Apple to its core to defend their Microsoft purchases.  

Sample size of one. My friends surface book has been rock solid since day one. There’s always going to be QC issues. 2 of the three MacBooks I’ve owned were replaced by apple because they were defective. Doesn’t mean they weren’t my favourite computing platform.