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Apple Introduces iPadOS 15: First Look at New Features
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THE comment of the day.
Greetings to the usual suspects who were so fast to defuse critics with "bruh just wait for WWDC". Will they admit they were wrong, and those of us concerned about Apple not having a vision behind putting the M1 inside an iPad being proven right? Here's a big dish of "we told you so" to go with that koolaid.
Sad to see Apple being stuck in a literal infinite loop of meh iteration after meh iteration, and still not be able to deliver anything groundbreaking despite their unfathomable wealth, talent pool and capital.
Sad to see Apple being stuck in a literal infinite loop of meh iteration after meh iteration, and still not be able to deliver anything groundbreaking despite their unfathomable wealth, talent pool and capital.
If Apple wanted to provide external validation for my decision not to upgrade from my 2020 iPad Pro, they couldn't have done a better job.
Or native calculator.... because that feat of engineering and porting from the iPhone is too hard.
There were only two things that I wanted and that were realistic:
1)desktop class multitasking
2)a non-gimped files app
Got neither.
Honestly the only thing that is of even a mild interest is the Quicknotes. Nothing else is of any use. Even the multitasking improvements are just a simpler way of what we can already do. Just slapped on.
M1 is wasted on the iPad
1)desktop class multitasking
2)a non-gimped files app
Got neither.
Honestly the only thing that is of even a mild interest is the Quicknotes. Nothing else is of any use. Even the multitasking improvements are just a simpler way of what we can already do. Just slapped on.
M1 is wasted on the iPad
well, I guess no incentive to migrate from my 10.5" Pro after all . 
I don't think I've ever seen a WWDC keynote that has failed to meet the moment as much as this one.
They make it twice as powerful as my Mac Pro, and all this is all it gets for software upgrades…? Forget it.
While I will use the heck out of Live Text and tags in Notes, I have to confess some disappointment in no “Pro” features/apps that can take advantage of the M1 in the new iPads. And, what about multi-user capabilities, monitor support, eliminating the 5GB per-app limit, improving the files app, etc.?
Yeah they took a step back this year. Had no hopes for iOS 15 and was still disappointed with how little changed. I had fairly high hopes for iPadOS 15 and was completely baffled with how they managed to bring so little to such a capable device. I hope iPad Pro sales tank this year and Apple realizes they have to offer more in the way of software to take advantage of it. Otherwise, who the hell buys a 16GB of RAM iPad Pro???
Yawn. This will be the last "pro" ipad I purchase. No point paying extra for the pro over the cheaper models since apple clearly is going to keep the software 3 steps behind the hardware.
100% guaranteed to make your current iPad run slower than Ipad OS 14! All at no charge.
Also validating my decision to go for a heavily discounted 2020 12.9" iPP from Amazon. Let's be honest though. It's still money inside Apple's pockets. What is an order of magnitude of FAIL is how aimless and derivative they managed to make their latest and greatest. After so many iterations it was high time for an actual revolution, especially now that iPads and Macs are using the same hardware!
Hey but all those employees wrote that strongly worded letter to apple to let them remain working from home because they did the best work ever while at home. 😂
Agreed. From the intro I could tell that Apple almost didn‘t even bother to try. Pretty boring stuff. I will be in no rush to update my devices in September, never mind trying the public beta, like I always have.
At least with App Library in the dock I can finally remove the folder with all my apps from my dock.
Oh wait we still can’t organize apps as we want in the App Library …
Guess I’ll just hope we can disable it from the dock at least
Oh wait we still can’t organize apps as we want in the App Library …
Guess I’ll just hope we can disable it from the dock at least
Just a thought, but I’m wondering if Apple is truly being Apple and deliberately handicapping the iPad Pro with gimped OS in order to not completely lose most macOS users. They have made it clear they don’t want to merge the 2, but Jesus, they are just completely trashing the capabilities of the M1 iPad Pro. A 2019 iPad Air isn’t even challenged with iPadOS let alone any iPad Pro from 2017 and above.
Those multitask enhancements are pretty weak. I'd love true windowing - which was a breeze with Quasar (iOS5) / Milkyway 3 (now). Of course, jailbreak-only.
Silver lining…..possibly…..is that with these lack of features means they will concentrate more on stability. It’s been terrible the last couple years.
I'd love pen support in MacOS as I do a lot of, among other things, PDF annotating on my iPad Pro. I'd love NOT having to reach for the iPad for such tasks but do everything on my Mac.
Too bad iPadOS15 is still a toy - running on really expensive hardware (M1).
Yeah I thought I was going to migrate to an iPad Pro permanently after school, but with how basic the software continues to be, probably not. I feel iPadOS 15 on the M1 iPad Pro is even more disappointing than iOS 11 was that launched on the 2018 iPad Pro.