Or not.
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Considering this thread is 95 pages long with hundreds of anecdotal reports of people having to go to medical specialists, this is no laughing matter.
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Very true. The most critical piece you simply cannot give up if you are entrenched within the Apple ecosystem is iMessage. It's just too powerful and too seamless, especially now that it is in the Cloud as well.
When you receive a message from someone where the text is green for plain SMS, you realize that the person is at a disadvantage, in terms of the length of a message they can send and what content can be sent. Google new rich messaging app is new and they have failed many times at this.
In the end, it's the quality of Apple's mobile and Apple TV applications and their seamless integration which makes switching nearly impossible.
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I'm going on a coast to coast trip over Thanksgiving. I'm going to bring the 3rd Gen 12.9" iPad in tow and see what its like. Open mind, but suspect it will go back to Apple.
[doublepost=1542214044][/doublepost]I decided to get the new 12.9" 3rd gen iPad Pro yesterday and test it out against my 2nd Gen 12.9" model.
I found the same issues, though magnified considerably due to the size of the display, that I found with the iPhone XR. Like the XR, I noticed a slight bit of graininess in the text. Holding the 2nd and 3rd gen 12'9" models side to side, the text on the 3rd gen exhibited a slight blurriness at a normal viewing distance. I now question whether the difference between the 8 Plus and XR in text quality is entirely due to the higher PPI (401 vs 326) on the Plus or whether it's due to the design of the liquid retina LCD.
Moreover, I found the liquid Retina display of the 3rd Gen IPP to be harder on the eyes than the 2nd Gen. I just felt less comfortable, and the 3rd Generation IPP exhibits more glare.. I simply didn't like it and started feeling eye strain and getting a mild headache the more I used it.
The Touch ID when it worked was creepy. It's more intrusive to the senses than Touch ID because it blasts out a confirmation message whereas Touch ID is silent. On authenticating passwords, it was just as creepy and unwelcome.
There is also a flaw from the standpoint of ergonomics, at least for me with FaceID. I hold my iPad in landscape mode with two hands. It's very easy to authenticate with Touch ID on the 2nd Gen by simply placing my right finger on the home button when requested, which I can easily reach.
On the third Gen, Face ID returns an error if your hand is resting on/holding the center left side of the display in landscape mode if that happens to be where the front facing camera is. That’s a deal breaker fo me.
I kept the iPad for about an hour, initiated a return and dropped it off at FedEX.
I have now returned the XS Max, XR and 3rd generation iPad. This seems like the end of the line for me with these products. If the current ones stop working, I will have to get new ones or I will retire them and figure out how to get a Jump on Demand upgrade for the same 8 Plus phone, which will require a bit of planning.
