The IPad Pro 13” is way too expensive and Apple’s App Store is one of the more evil things in the world, but it also may be one of my favourite computers I’ve used
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I really really want a cellular MacBook with iPadOS style slide over for vertical paned apps like messages, discords, Bluesky, etc so I’m not eating real estate when using them.
Alternatively I would accept iPad OS being allowed to run a Mac app in a fancy wrapper so I could have proper excel.
See I think the 13” is perfect for web-based Bluesky and other apps have been great. Can’t imagine doing spreadsheets on it but for me it’s perfect for typing, and i don’t feel like I’m in work mode
If Tim Apple wanted to be a real friend he’d use this new Apple modem to give me a 5G MacBook. I travel for work a LOT and WiFi is a real liability and hotspots are a hassle - I want to open it, work, close it, switch gears.
Also Tim Apple: turning the End & Accept button when call waiting pops up
Oh yeah - web based Bluesky is tremendous. My work flow is largely centered around ADHD so I either need dual 32” 4K screens or I need a singular focused screen that I can keep centered and slide distracting apps in and out of my view easily.
I got a 48” ultrawide at home and ADHD so I get it. I also get - I am a huge baby - weirdly focused on whether a computer is a work computer or a fun computer, meaning that I can’t just sit with my laptop out because it makes me feel like I’m working
Agreed (typing this from one in fact). As an artist, the excuse was easy — Apple Pencil, Procreate, tons of other apps for creativity. I only wished it worked as great for coding and development. And it could, but iPadOS is like a corset in that regard.
How possible is it to avoid or turn off the Apple intelligence stuff? I've started getting nudges about it on my older model, but I don't think it runs it natively, and I've basically resigned myself to never getting another one if the newer ones are a huge pain about it.
My sister got a Windows machine and she hated it. I told her Apple's systems cost a lot of money but they aren't infested with the crap she was seeing. She didn't know that.
Me with the M macs. Even before the Intel transition they were the only people with respect for battery life, and now it's a gaping chasm versus literally any other laptop.
The Apple ecosystem is such a walled garden but damn does it work so well.
Drafting a diagram on my iPad to airdrop it to my phone to throw in a teams chat was so smooth. I hate it. I hate how this sounds like a commercial rather than an actual useful concept.
I feel like the iPad is the best product Apple does. You can always find a phone with better stuff than an iPhone, or a more capable computer than a Mac; but the iPad has no competition and no alternative does what it does as well.
I occasionally need a portable touch device bigger than a phone. I'd love to get an Ipad Mini but the 650 USD price tag is just absolutely ridiculous. 250 I could justify. 650 is just waaaay too much for what it does.
I have an older model and have used the heck out of it but if an employer hadn't bought it for me there's no way I'd have spent money on an Apple product
It’s hard to judge how great or not great the iPhone is because so much of what makes it work is that you’re deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem. I like the UI and generally they work really well. But it’s also too expensive and “good” because of the monopoly.
I just found out that Apple doesn’t allow other browser than Safari to be available on the iPadOS, and all other browsers in the app store are just reskinned safari. How did Apple got away with this legally, while Microsoft couldn’t pull the same stunt with IE?
EU users have had the “permission” to use browsers not based on WebKit since January, 18.2 even extended that to Home Screen web apps but again only for EU users.
I’m only aware of Chromium’s efforts to port Blink to iOS and some other small projects but as far as I know no prod releases yet.
eBay is the best price corrector. Got one for 900 with just the tiniest scuff mark I would have done myself in ten minutes. All the accessories cheap too.
I can't really get into apple products anymore. Their whole ecosystem is designed to stifle interoperability. Not only that but every device is so thoroughly locked to an apple account, it's the antithesis of open source.
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Alternatively I would accept iPad OS being allowed to run a Mac app in a fancy wrapper so I could have proper excel.
Also - the ADP website makes me lift the iPad off the keyboard to get to the keychain prompt and that’s just stupid.
Otherwise it’s a 10/10.
Also Tim Apple: turning the End & Accept button when call waiting pops up
You hear me Tim Apple?
It’s may not make sense to anyone who isn’t me.
You try to pick the one that annoys you the least.
It's a negative scale where you pick the option closest to zero.
Kinda like in polit-[gets tackled]
Drafting a diagram on my iPad to airdrop it to my phone to throw in a teams chat was so smooth. I hate it. I hate how this sounds like a commercial rather than an actual useful concept.
To me, the worst offender is probably the iPhone. It costs an arm and is honestly not that great.
But once in their walled garden it “just works,” and the competition is terrible anyway.
The device disappoints me, especially coming from an 11 Pro. But the value iCloud provides is unmatched
I’m only aware of Chromium’s efforts to port Blink to iOS and some other small projects but as far as I know no prod releases yet.