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Apple ad spot highlights Ping iPhone capabilities of Apple Watch
I had this happen to me except with a Canadian twist. We had a huge snow storm a few years back and I was shovelling to get the car out. My phone fell out of my jacket pocket at some point and then unknowingly shovelled it into snow bank. About a block after getting into the car I noticed that my phone was not with me. Pulled back into the driveway and then followed the pinging into the snow that had been flung into the yard. Absolutely love the watch and this tiny little feature.
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iPadOS 15 confirms Apple's M1-equipped iPad Pro is a V8 engine powering a Ford Pinto
I am beginning to wonder if Apple just released the magic keyboard for those complainers who just had to have one; and then purposefully made as expensive as they determined they could just cause. I bought one, unfortunately it was attached to my iPad that was recently stolen. Now that I just received the new M1 I’m going to wait and see if I can adapt my workflow accordingly. I understand that most may not be able to adapt their workflow, and it may not work for me, but I’m going to give it a go.danvm said:
Maybe the should consider making a hybrid device, specially when you consider that the Surface has a better experience when using the keyboard + trackpad. I also find interesting how Apple was very negative about touchscreen notebooks, but a the end, is very similar to what they offer with the iPad Pro and the Magic Keyboard.tmay said:
FFS,hmlongco said:I was so sure that Apple was going to figure out some cool way of taking the iPad Pro with M1 in a "Microsoft Surface" direction when paired with the Apple Keyboard/Trackpad that I ordered a new iPad Pro with M1 on the first day it was available.
They didn't.
I just cancelled the order.
Should Apple reconsider, so will I.
Apple has stated, over and over again, that it wasn't going to make a hybrid.
Furthermore, nobody cares if you canceled your order for the iPad Pro, but you sure showed Apple who's boss, somehow!
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iPadOS 15 confirms Apple's M1-equipped iPad Pro is a V8 engine powering a Ford Pinto
I shared my thinking around this on another a few weeks back. IMO you correctly identify the single biggest issue that people gripe about when talking about limitations of iPad OS and that is multiple monitor support. My thinking is that the extra power off the iPad will be for the yet to be released Apple AR/VR. There are a couple of reasons for this;hackintoisier said:Until Apple makes fundamental changes to iPadOS, the M1 chip is a waste of hardware honestly. The A12z in the 2020 version is just fine. The only real difference with M1 is the addition of thunderbolt so you can connect to peripherals like 10gbps lan cards, high speed storage, etc. But other than that, there’s nothing about the iPadOS experience that is significantly different on M1 vs the A12x/A12z. Multi monitor support is still limited to 4x3 and does not scale to the 16x9 or 16x10 aspect ratio of monitors. iPadOS has some fundamental limitations, even though the hardware itself has been proven to not be limited in that regard, as M1 and A12x/A12z can run the more complicated window manager of macOS. And we have to tell the truth.- Because the iPad is portable, it gives its users the ability to engage with Apple glass (or whatever it’ll be called) anywhere they go and not be tied to a desk top. Yes they could have a laptop but the laptop is limited as highlighted in point 2.
- Using a point and click 2-D input that we see with a mouse and desktop combo in a 3-D interface that is AR/VR would be very limiting.
- iOS users are accustomed to already using touch and gesture first interface
- Having LiDAR on the iPad enables it to read your in air hand gestures without needing additional equipment. So now you can have as much screen real estate as you want with nothing more than an iPad Pro and ‘Apple Glasses’
You’re on set for a shoot and want to bring some editing equipment. You could pack up the desktop and 2 or 3 monitors per editor along with all the cables and power you’ll need to drive those devices, not to mention furniture to support it and the users; OR, you can just pack your iPad Pro and Apple glasses (possibly more than one pair could be supported by the iPad at once) and that’s it. I just thought of this use case scenario, but I’m already imagining more.
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Multitasking on iPad gets some polish with iPadOS 15
I can see that you could have more windows open, I just am having difficulty seeing how much of the content would be visible when an app window is a quarter (or less) of a 13” screen. Unless of course the information that you are needing off of one of them is so small and select in nature that you could keep it that small. For me, in that instance, I’d probably just bring up that information on my phone and use that as my small window. Even if I needed to copy something from the “phone window”, to the iPad, that can easily be done with continuity.elijahg said:Perhaps if you use just two windows then ok - two side by side full screen windows is just fine. But when you have 3 or 4 windows with different content, referencing 2 of them whilst typing into one and seeing the results in another, being stuck with two is a massive chore, constantly having to switch between full-screen apps is much less productive than having the content visible all at once. Switching between full screen apps on iPadOS is slow as well; a quick command-tab on macOS and you're there instantly, the 5 finger swipe on iPadOS just feels sluggish. Then it rearranges the apps such that sometimes you'd have to swipe three times to get to the fourth window, sometimes twice. I can most definitely be more productive on macOS with 3+ windows than I can on iPadOS.4 finger swiping is quick, but you’re right that it can be cumbersome if the app that you are using is 3 or 4 back. In those scenarios I would swipe up and select the app I want rather that mindlessly 4 finger swiping through previous apps (or windows or whatever you want to call them).
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Multitasking on iPad gets some polish with iPadOS 15
I think my above post answers the bolded comment of yours, thinking that multiple, layered, and varied is sizes windows is more productive.elijahg said:I'm pretty sure the disaster that is iPadOS multitasking is a result of Apple's stubborn and persisting attempts to separate the iPad from macOS by refusing to support what has been shown to be the best solution for multitasking over 35 years of computing - namely multiple, overlapping windows. The alternatives for multi-window multitasking on iPadOS seem (and feel) like a horrible, sluggish kludge. They obviously don't have any idea how to make it better without implementing windowing, otherwise they would have done so by now; and I can't see it improving unless someone or something changes at Apple, whereby they allow iPadOS to be more Mac like.
There are so many things I could use an iPad for if it wasn't hobbled by iPadOS, but Apple knows if they allow people to discover the merits of a more open system there's no going back to the obsessive levels of control they have now. But I can't see it changing, and Apple's assumption (or perhaps guise for more control) that everyone that uses a Mac is thick as two short planks and therefore needs protecting from everything including themselves - is resulting in a level of control and restrictions that is becoming more onerous than it's worth for me.
