Hey Apple, how about a slimmed down iPad mini version similar to the iPhone X with FaceID?
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Apple Developing Redesigned 2018 iPad With Face ID, Slimmer Bezels and No Home Button
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Is it that much of a hassle to look at your phone right side up? That must be soooooo terrible for u!!!!
NO!!!
I just bought a 10.5" iPad Pro, and I love Face ID. I've been thinking lately how much I wished my iPad had Face ID and no home button. Pressing that home button is so out dated.
Then why the “NO!!!”? It sounds from the rest of your post that you think this is what Apple should be doing.
i'm talking about the ipad...you know, the subject of this macrumors article that we're all commenting on.
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i'm talking about the ipad. my ipad pro sits on the keyboard cover in landscape much more than in portrait mode. if i have to take my ipad out from the keyboard cover to rotate to unlock my ipad, that's a huge problem.
Because it mounts nicely on the yoke of an airplane and displays all the approach charts as well as enroute navigation charts.
Looks like my Pro 2 12.9 inch will stay with me for at least 2 years then!
I am worried how will this affect games, some games are already having problems with multi-touch gestures that can be thankfully be disabled but the enforced swipe up gesture to replace the Home Button is another level altogether
I am worried how will this affect games, some games are already having problems with multi-touch gestures that can be thankfully be disabled but the enforced swipe up gesture to replace the Home Button is another level altogether
That's EXACTLY what I was going to say.
It's bad enough for it to only work in portrait mode on a phone (I hope they will fix this in a later model) but on a tablet it would be absolutely unworkable, imagine a tablet on a stand (Apple Keyboard case) and needing to pick the whole device and case up, rotate it, unlock it, and put it back down again.
Hopefully when they solve this for the iPad, which they MUST, then can introduce the "Solved" version into next years iPhone X1
I don't really want the iPad's to have less bezel.
It's really nice to have somewhere for your hands to easily and securely and comfortably grip the device without obscuring any screen.
It's minimal enough as it is on the 10.5" if you ask me.
It's really nice to have somewhere for your hands to easily and securely and comfortably grip the device without obscuring any screen.
It's minimal enough as it is on the 10.5" if you ask me.
Or from another perspective, with my AW3 w/LTE and my iPad, my (lame) iPhone has become really nothing more than a glorified router. Each to their own, I guess.
It should be possible to eliminate the notch, but knowing Apple, they may want to provide a "consistent" experience across all devices.
I noticed that trend as well.
Yet, I still had to rush out for a 256GB iPhone 8. I have a disease,
Do you have an x? Right now switching between my X And going back to my iPad is not a pleasant experience .
The Essential phone has a notch too, and reviewers are generally embracing that too...
On the phone for me personally very much so. I for example look over and quickly unlock my phone often to check alerts or in the case of apps without alerts other badges. Never even pick it up, Touch ID is great for this, usually even if grabbing from my pocket it is unlocked before it is even out. While driving my wife can unlock with her finger if I am driving. With Face ID its only either the face or code. And having to pick up a phone or iPad up and stare at it, well I'm not just there yet.
But honestly on the iPad it may be not be such an issue and I guess I could live with it. But, given my personal interaction with my devices Touch ID works exactly the way I had always hoped for. I would say the same for a home button. Just my personal thinking I admit.
If they get rid of the home button ..... and not add the notch, they will introduce a 3rd way to navigate an idevice..... a mess
Now that I've become accustomed to swiping on the iPhone, the home button on the iPad really throws me off abd feels archaic!
Though now imagine an iPad without a notch but faceid, a third navigation flow.
Things like removing apps or closing apps....is archaic on the X....feels like hacks
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No improvements in battery = NOT WORTH IT
It’s as simple as that.
I will not buy another iPad unless it can last at least 15 hours instead of the actual 10.
It’s as simple as that.
I will not buy another iPad unless it can last at least 15 hours instead of the actual 10.