Curious what you do with 2 iPads 2 inches apart. What does one do that the other can’t?
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All iPads No evolution or revolution for iPadOS 18
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For the few times you get 120 Hz? I mean promotion is variable refresh some sometimes you only get 10 Hz when the iPad Air will give you 60 all day long!
Can’t you remote in to your laptop or desktop Mac if it’s at home and you are on your iPad?
Good idea, however I have consumer-grade Internet at home and this, the ISP doesn’t allow static IP addresses…
Agreed. And some of the things they previewed with Apple Intelligence could be absolutely revolutionary for multitasking. 👍🏻
You don’t need a static IP if you’re using a client that has an agent.
Nope. Just a big fat nope. “We pointed”. Yeah totally because what a sample size to draw from huh? Surely nobody in the iPad forums or iPad Reddit or anywhere else can possibly use their iPad as their main computer. Oh right. They do. People do. People have for years. This exaggerating that iPad is a toy that’s completely useless for anybody without a MacBook to pair it with is just plain false.
People have different needs. For whatever freaking reason, the people that have a negativity bias always love posting here and circle jerking with other salty people about how pointless iPad is for THEM and make it apply to everyone.
Criticism is fine. Wanting more features is fine. We all want that. Framing iPad as a completely useless device that can’t do anything for anybody or be a main computer for people? Even pulling out the “what’s a computer” ad as if to say it couldn’t be anybody’s main computer? Yeah. Same silliness we’ve seen on the forums for more than a decade.
“It can’t do x? Not a real computer!” Never heard that one.
Apparently people were disappointed with the Mac portion as well so I guess nobody can ever be happy.
People just don’t have an imagination. Their world view is the only one that exists.
Blown up iPhone app 😂 years of working on it and nothing, can't use a floating calculator window in notes or anything.Come on man, that calculator app is huge....literally!
What is the reason on these forums that people insist on ignoring new features? Math notes alone is completely new, the calculator app is just the showcase for it.
You may not *care* about it, which is fine, but MR year over year is becoming just a cesspool of “hot takes” that are just factually wrong and nobody seems to care.
I use my 11” for media consumption and my 12.9 with MKB as a laptop replacement. The 11” gets used more. I’d love to settle on one but I have big hands and its just too cramped to type on an 11” MKB for me.
Apple is mostly just about extracting rents now
They are out of any good new ideas of their own
They are out of any good new ideas of their own
Idk, there’s about to be millions of *regular* people who are going to be introduced to useful “AI” in a way that doesn’t require being a query nerd.
Makes me think that the Meta’s, Microsoft’s, etc are going to be reworking the UX for their offerings over the next year 🤷♂️
I don’t care at all about ChatGPT, but if my phone can organize the plans I’ve made in passing on my text messages that will actually be useful to me.
Apple introduced a ton of quality of life features with their “AI” yesterday that is going to be used by millions of people who don’t know or care that it’s “AI”.
So glad I dipped on this FOMO , imagine owning an m4 ipad pro and to still have no real usage for it or a real OS for that matter.
When are you people gonna learn ?
When are you people gonna learn ?
I mean, depends on what you use it for.
I shelled out big bucks for the M4 and I don't feel insulted. I knew what I was getting, and I didn't buy it on some wild expectation from an unannounced OS.
So glad I dipped on this FOMO , imagine owning an m4 ipad pro and to still have no real usage for it or a real OS for that matter.
When are you people gonna learn ?
Maybe we people have already learned how to fit the iPad Pro into our workflows, and we don't need any such "real OS" you speak of? The hardware is amazing though, so I can understand why you are frustrated it doesn't fit your needs on the software side.
I’ve used both. But just one at a time. I prefer the bigger screen for my eyes, but the 11 inch is so portable. I move around a lot during the day, I’m a principal of a school so I’m in and out of classrooms almost daily. Try to get to 10 classes a day. And if I need bigger space I jump on my Mac mini/studio display.
This. I understand the frustration but it’s not the paperweight some people make it out to be.
This is my use case as well. I am a Middle School Asst. Principal and would love a more portable setup for evals, etc vs my HP laptop that my district provided that is just so cumbersome.
I have been leaning 11" but I am a big guy and struggle a touch typing on the MKB for the 11".
My plan is to prob buy the 11" tonight and use it a bit and decide before the 14 day window closes as I'm leaving for the East Coast trip and could play with it on the long bus ride. Also looking for the Back to School promo that hasn't dropped yet so will prob return it to get the promo.
I have been leaning 11" but I am a big guy and struggle a touch typing on the MKB for the 11".
My plan is to prob buy the 11" tonight and use it a bit and decide before the 14 day window closes as I'm leaving for the East Coast trip and could play with it on the long bus ride. Also looking for the Back to School promo that hasn't dropped yet so will prob return it to get the promo.
It's not at all. People are just frustrated because of what it could be. If you can live with the limitations of iPadOS in your workflow, then you are set. But there are a few big pain points that could make it so much more useful without ruining the experience of the iPad.