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Apple Introduces iPadOS 15: First Look at New Features
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Hot tip for the people who buy the maxed out iPad Pro. Apple is not including all that RAM and storage because they think you’ll need it. They’re doing that because they know some people will pay them hundreds of extra dollars because they want “the best”, and Apple is happy to drive up the profit margin.
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Notes tagging is just a Markdown feature that has been available already. It will be interesting to see how well the search function works with the tagging aspect.
This isn't the first time Apple has had this kind of presentation. It happens regularly. I think the problem was too many people have unrealistic expectations.
Apple is about incremental updates with a sprinkling of new features here and there. Big changes don't happen every year. People need to stop assuming facts (read: rumors) not in evidence. It will make for happier days.
Apple does the bare minimum each year with added features because they know their fan club will rush to buy it every year no matter what.
I wouldn’t give you great odds, I’d expect instead for the Weather app (and it would be branded as part of the Weather app) to have a widget (possibly only available in medium, large, or extra large [though extra large is probably iPad exclusive]) widget size) Dark Sky style precipitation-cast display.
not giving away the idea in a forum post. probably will write a blog post on medium
You are comparing storage and ram.... 2 totally different things.
When Apple releases a device like the iPad with 16gb of RAM and the OS only supports up to 5gb per app, people are bound to assume Apple was going to do something big with iPadOS this year. Instead they got widgets.
People shouldn't have assumed. Bad things happen (most of the time) when assumptions are made, especially tech purchasing assumptions.
True, but big changes need to happen eventually. That was the right time for it, with M1 Macs and M1 iPads fresh out of the oven. It's not unrealistic expectations to look forward to the kind of software that brings this hardware to life. Also.. when was the last year something big happened?
Pity there is nothing on the Files App - that is for me the most painful shortcoming on the iPad.
this was explained by Craig: they only do an app, if it is really exceptional - like e.g. the first version of the "stocks" App for the iPhone
Everyone was waiting with bated breath on iPadOS 15 to turn the iPad into the laptop replacement it was always meant to be… Still no updated Files app/library and no external monitor support. Once again we’re left twisting in the wind wondering what we’re going to do with all that wasted power.
iPadOS 15.....What a waste of development effort ....... Apple is lost in the wilderness with the iPad Pro....... Enough already.... Just support dual boot to MacOS 12 Monterey and let us get on with our lives......
You are forgetting much needed improvements like Widgets all over the place that were in Android for the past 10 years. The pen also gains functionalities that I liked a lot on my old Galaxy Note. Better late then never!
I agree with you about today. If Apple had chosen to do big today after releasing the new awesome M1's, it could have created even more Apple fervor, especially for this considering their first iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, or iPad. Apple chose (probably last year or earlier) what today was going to show. As an end consumer, I am happy with today. It didn't wow me but, I wasn't looking to be "wow."
I do think expectations in MR land were off the charts. I think a lot of that was due to editors fueling the fire and forum members convincing themselves of a perceived truth that was never there to begin with.
As to the last time Apple went big with features, I think that that is rather subjective and what you or I consider big (or not due to disagreement) may be different for others here.
With today, I think the new features related to privacy and security with Safari are big. That may not even register on the 'happy' meter for many here but, I embrace it. While it may not be an Apple magic feature, I think the health features today were big in that they will provide a more balanced medical profile for the user as well as family members. I see the direction Apple is going in that department and I like it.
As to previous presentation releases, I think Sidecar was big. I think silence unknown callers was a big feature. I also consider app tracking to be a big feature.
With the watch, I consider fall detection a big feature along with blood oxygen.
I could mention more but, no need filling the thread.
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That will be my favourite iPad Os upgrade ever. Granted we don't get that much but just a few years back we were not getting any features that were design for the iPad. Even in the past 2 years we did not get much so I think this is my favourite one as there are truly a few new features that I am happy about. They could have given us external monitor support though. Probably when they will introduce a new Apple monitor, now there is no money in it.
That’s what I take exception with. It’s not a laptop replacement, per se, nor was it ever intended to be. It’s something other than a laptop that happens to do a lot of the same things as laptops (also, how many people buy laptops just to watch YouTube, check Facebook, read email? Has to be a lot of people), but it does them in different ways. How to do those things is something Apple is still working on. The iPad is 11 years old now, when the Mac was 11 years old, the best Mac you could get were the first generation PowerPC Macs running System 7.5, which had just introduced the menu bar clock. Multitasking had just become a full system-supported feature in 7.0, and 7.5 was the first release with TCP support included and the first release with a hierarchical Apple menu.
Apple does not want it to be a laptop replacement or more precisely it does not want it to be a laptop replacement for someone who will also buy a MacBook as they want them to buy the MacBook. It is a laptop replacement for someone who does not need a laptop.
I don't have the link anymore but they kind of stated it themselves in the past.