Tbh, I don’t even remember the keynote for that. Perhaps, I wasn’t really concern with the 2020 model at the time… given the leaks.
It’s more to that… iPadOS hasn’t seen a huge update in quite a long time. It’s as if the stars were align to bring a special feature to M1 iPP users, I woulda took anything…tbh. Multiple audio streams simultaneously… virtualization support, give us something to take advantage of this hardware.
What exactly did you expect ? It is still a mobile device. When’s the last time Microsoft has brought something earth shattering to a desktop ?
No. Ipad Pros 2020 were introduced only through press release (twitter tweet), there was no conference.
Mobile device? Not sure what that even means. But I believe I mention what kind of features I expected... features that can take advantage of the hardware. Wasn't looking for anything earth shattering.
I’ve had both since 2017 and rarely listen to my iPad without headphones or other speakers and really don’t notice the difference in ProMotion and my non-ProMotion devices.
Yeah, I seen a few post regarding that. But I think its a bug... I wasn't able to replicate it in the beta. And in addition to that, it would of been something Apple would of announced.
I understand what a mobile device means... just didn't understand in the context that you meant. It's as if you were trying to belittle the idea of having an iPad.
I don’t think people are angry with the 2021 IPP (only due to software). It’s more that they spec’d out the 2021 IPP (ie with 8 gb ram, thunderbolt connection and an M1). That leads people to rightly speculate that Apple is setting the stage for the IPP to “break out”. What did WWDC bring? Not much! So, people that bought the 2021 IPP at launch are kind of in a strange place. They’re stuck with the best iPad Apple has ever made, but the can’t use It to it‘s full potential!
Base on WWDC from 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017... Yeah this one was a major letdown. Honestly, EVERYTHING they said could have just been in a press release. Nothing that exciting.
Except, the n (2020 iPad) and n+1 (2021 iPad) had, at the higher config, a jump of 12 GB of RAM - 2020 iPad only had 6GB of RAM where the 2021 iPad higher config has 16GB of RAM. Yet, iPad OS did not introduce new ways to utilize that RAM.
Xcode Cloud was really the only thing that was exciting to me. As someone that uses Azure DevOps and likes the whole CI/CD pipelines, it was nice to see on the Apple side too.
Yeah a laptop (especially an ultra portable and/or a convertible) blurs the line between a desktop computer and a mobile device, and can do some spectacular things. Look at the original MB Air (or the Surface Pro line). The iPad Pro has the hardware specs to do so too, but the software is lacking.
Geez its about time. Part of what drives me crazy about iPad is that some apps still require portrait mode. Meanwhile every popular case - including Apple's make your iPad landscape.
What good is that for iPad, if all you can do is play candy crush and edit your memoji ?♂️?
Well in regards to iPad, then yeah its been the same since 2017. But in regards to your specific comment, you made it seem like Apple in general has not innovated recently. But not talking about the M1 in the iPad, just M1 in general is a massive innovation. And the fact that the M1 Mac mini competes with my 2019 i9 iMac is massive.
Developers will not take iPad more seriously if Apple doesn't. Having professional software from Apple, will increase professionals using iPad which will lead to more developers making more professional software. As it STILL stands, iPad is just a slightly enhanced iPhone.
