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Well said. It’s always been a consumption device for me. I actually use my iPad Air 4 more than my 12.9 as its more enjoyable to use as a tablet. I only purchased the 12.9 to use for movie watching at the office. Well now that I’m remote, I have a nice 50” OLED in my home office for that. I was borderline going to sell my 12.9 and just rock with my Air 4, but with the new multitasking coming, and the new Universal Control in MacOS Monterey, I will use my 12.9 as a screen companion for my future 14” MacBook Pro 😜
You watch full movies at work and getting paid? You have a lot of down time or something?
 
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There were some gems in there, Universal Control, iCloud+ I liked, it just didn't satisfy the rumor crowd.
UC is the excuse to not give you Mac apps on the iPad for this cycle and even iPhone if they start using m# chips. We shall see what happens when they release the next ver of iPad Pro/mba if they merge them or something.
 
I’m really excited about a few things they announced today. Swift Playgrounds allowing for on-device app development, the new Focus features, tab grouping in Safari, Shortcuts on Mac (I hope there will be the ability to add shortcuts to the service menu, run shell scripts, run AppleScripts, which are really the only features I found useful in Automator), offline/on-device Siri, the iCloud+ privacy features, email tracking blocking. I’m most excited about Focus, especially Home Screen focus (I’d imagine the other apps are all in the App Library still, but I don’t usually use the App Library anyway).
 
Sorry you’re so poor to buy a second hand one.

I’m happy with my brand new M1 12.9. And it was a great upgrade from the iPad Air 2. I use it daily and has not yet let me down.
Nice insult. I just don’t have a disposable income. Apple products keep increasing in price, but 2nd hand gently used devices are a great value.

I tried out a 2020 iPad Pro 11” last year and returned it. Overpriced for the features and capability. I’d rather put the $1200 towards a new Mac that is a far more capable machine and better suited for my needs. iPad is a media consumption/entertainment device. I’d go as far as calling it a toy. Even the Smart Keyboard for the 12.9” model is too cramped and key travel is too shallow for my liking. If I need to type multiple long paragraphs, I’ll use my MacBook Pro or Mac Pro with a REAL keyboard.

Why were you using an ancient iPad Air 2? You don’t upgrade every time a new model comes out?
 
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All I wanted was full screen external monitor support at the OS level and left disappointed.
Yeah this is the one thing I thought might show up. Weird.
Not a dev but wouldn’t every app had to be optimised for screen with different aspect ratios? Isn’t it why it now works in certain apps? But Apple’s support for Home Screen external monitor support and apps (Safari, Files, iWork….) is still lacking... iOS/iPad OS went through several aspect ratio and resolution changes, so it should be doable.
 
Maybe this is the type of productivity and output that comes from “working from home”. Lol. *shields up for the incoming hate*
 
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Yeah, I rolled the dice and spent an extra $100 on the M1 rather than a clearance-priced 2020. Oh well, it’s still a nice machine!
I wouldn’t buy it on clearance either. If I was buying new, the extra $100 for the M1 is short money.

I bought my 2017 iPad Pro 10.5 (512GB) immediately after the 2018 model came out. Paid $500 and it was in brand new shape. Just had Apple replace it earlier this year due to a bad battery.

I’ll buy a 1TB iPad Pro 11 (2020) in a few months. Deprecation is terrible on iPad and iPhone. I bought a lightly used iPhone 11 Pro Max (512GB) for $800 in December. Had a warranty till March, paid $200 for AC+

$1000 for a practically brand spanking new 512GB iPhone 11 Pro Max w/ AC+ is a better deal than the 12 Pro Max for $1500 when 5G isn’t widely available where I live.
 
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UC is the excuse to not give you Mac apps on the iPad for this cycle and even iPhone if they start using m# chips. We shall see what happens when they release the next ver of iPad Pro/mba if they merge them or something.
Microsoft would give their left nut to have something as slick as universal control
 
Nice insult. I just don’t have a disposable income. Apple products keep increasing in price, but 2nd hand gently used devices are a great value.

Why were you using an ancient iPad Air 2? You don’t upgrade every time a new model comes out?
one of those with more money than sense maybe? lol. If I were her I wouldn’t go poking around for deficiencies… she’s bound to have her share. Insulting people for being ”poor” isn’t exactly a classy look.
 
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Maybe this is the type of productivity and output that comes from “working from home”. Lol. *shields up for the incoming hate*
You only need idea people to be together at most. Coders/testers/etc work from their own computer so the only difference is being in their more relaxed clothing at home.
 
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I suspect that the keynote video doesn’t cover all the new features. It seems like Apple actually had a lot it wanted to cover today, across the five platforms. But Pro apps aren’t necessarily something that needed to be launched at WWDC, Apple could easily just upload FCP for iPad, perhaps announced with a minor press release. But people seemed to want two to three years of updates in one year, and this year was a rough one in terms of the development cycle (the OSes last year were mostly finished before COVID, I’d suspect the bulk of Apple’s development work is done between September and December, while the time between March and June is probably reserved for finalizing and testing before the beta releases).
 
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Maybe this is the type of productivity and output that comes from “working from home”. Lol. *shields up for the incoming hate*
Interesting thought. I'm a retired S/W & H/W engineer and I had 175 engineers on the team I was leading on a complex system development and I've thought about how difficult my job would be under lockdown.
 
Every M1 12.9” iPad Pro buyer right now,




wake me up when an M1 iPad Pro can Do something the A12X iPad Pro from 2018 can’t or they fix the Thunderbolt 3 port speeds any update on that ?
 
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Sad.. I just got the new 12.9 iPad and I almost regret it now :(
Even just the news that they could start opening up the ability for some OS X apps would have been enough for me. I don’t know exactly what I was hoping for but something more than widgets..
Poor M1 all caged up, can’t stretch its legs.
 
Glad I didn’t upgrade to M1 (Already on a 2020.) No pro apps announced. Confusing new multitasking modes added.

Hopefully there are some more behind the scenes upgrades to allow more powerful app types that they didn’t announce, we’ll see in the state of the union.
 
I told y’all the m1 isn’t needed they only put it in there as it’s cheaper to use one chip, apple scammed us
 
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Microsoft would give their left nut to have something as slick as universal control
Meh, the reality is not many people will use it. I want to see how it taxes all your devices when it gets beach balled and all freeze at the same time unless you are using the latest hardware. Anywho, this is just airplay improved BUT turn on all the time w visual movers between them so it’s a good feature but I bet it’s less intensive/faster to just have the Mac app you needed in the iPad instead.
 
I think apple is fine to let iPad be its own thing. I can understand why, if they make it too close to the Mac then sales of Macs go down.
 
UC is the excuse to not give you Mac apps on the iPad for this cycle and even iPhone if they start using m# chips. We shall see what happens when they release the next ver of iPad Pro/mba if they merge them or something.
I don’t think Mac apps on the iPad or merging macOS and iPadOS aren’t ever going to be a thing, and Windows 10’s tablet mode provides a very good reason for keeping the two OSes separate. If people really expected Mac apps on the iPad (or even the iPhone), then, of course, they were going to be disappointed. The experience would be disappointing if they did!
 
I wanted to wait for WWDC to open my M1 iPad… I decided that I was going to keep it either way and stupidly had faith that Apple had a reason for sticking the M1 in the iPad.

I regret buying the M1 iPad now seeing that NOTHING announced today justifies its existence and reviews of the 2018, 2020 & 2021 show that nearly nothing has improved either. Neither of the 3 are any ‘snappier’ than the other. Web browsing is the same. RAM management is great on all of them. Export times on projects aren’t nearly as dramatic as you would think and Apple limits the OS to 5 or 6gb from what I saw on a previous post so even the 8 & 16gb of RAM is just a waste.

Now to figure out my return window.
 
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