Actually, the fall prediction feature they announced today has me excited. I have a history of sprained ankles. Sometimes it’s mild sprains, but I was once knocked out of commission for two months. Just this past Friday, I sprained my ankle. It happens often enough that, if the watch could observe my gait and give me a warning for when my gait might cause issues that would result in a fall due to a sprained ankle, that alone would significantly improve my life by helping me to avoid sprains.
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Apple Introduces iPadOS 15: First Look at New Features
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Still no Calculator, Health, full Activity, Weather and Wallet apps. They even redesigned the Weather app and didn’t make it universal. That was such easy low hanging fruit for them. Jus…..ugh.
I'm still baffled as to why people think Apple was going to do anything special with the M1 iPad. Does anyone see them doing anything special or different for the Mac Pro or MacBook Pro that can't be done on the iMac or MacBook Air? The same for iPhone Pro and just regular iPhones. There are some feature limitations but they all do the same things. Apple wasn't and isn't going to change that.
There ya go. Your big feature for today may mean nothing to many others here and that's fine. They have their own feature they consider big or must have. That feature will benefit you each day and hopefully, raise the quality of your mobility and fitness (if applicable).
What many here fail to see so often is that Apple is speaking to millions and millions of people who have some core attitudes and attributes common. Beyond that, the pyramid of preferences and needs and expectations of certain apps is as diverse as the people themselves. As such, your big feature looks meaningless or trivial to some while others see it as good but not offering enough, as well as every increment in-between.
Too often people see the presentation and come away thinking it was a failure because it didn't resonate with them hardly at all. It is my contention, that Apple wasn't trying to resonate with every person on every feature mentioned. That is why you see so many angry, mad, or highly disappointed posts about today. If today wasn't member A's day, it is possible member A was looking at the presentation in the wrong light.
The type of greed that stifles innovation. They really don't know what to do with the Ipad anymore other than to bring these terrible incremental updates to it, otherwise it would compete with their MacBook line. They've kept the Weather and Calculator apps for the next IpadOS
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Why do people keep harping on the calculator app? Is it so hard to download any of the far better third party options? I haven’t used the stock calculator in ages, I’ve been a PCalc user since at least the release of the first iPad.
Watch the refurb store. I doubt anyone will return their machine because of iPadOS 15.
Or they come away disappointed because they bought a device thinking that such and such was going to happen because Apple offered this or that with the purchase. People should buy their devices on what they do now not what they think Apple might do with them down the road and they won't be disappointed.
This is why Android dropped the ball on tablets. Allowed Apple to have no competition in the iPad space, and look at the result. Complacency.
Absolutely. Hopefully, more and more Apple buyers will get that message and end the needless frustration.
That’s why I waited didn’t buy the new iPad Pro. Ordered a base M1 air with 16gb ram with a 100 dollars off.
I’m glad I opted out of replacing my 2018 12.9 and went with the M1 MacBook Air instead. The new features like XDR display and the extra RAM would be nice but really stunned iPadOS 15 is so minor in what’s new. Nothing to take advantage of the incredible hardware of the M1 iPad Pro, but that seems to be a recurring theme with iPad Pros and iPadOS.
People keep saying “Apple put the M1 in the iPad and didn’t do anything with it.” Well, here are a few things to consider:
1) The M1 is a gussied up A14X. The differences between the M1 and the A14 are almost identical to the A12Z and the A12 - double the performance cores, extra graphics cores, double the memory bus, etc. Apple’s not going to go through the trouble of making an A14X for the iPad Pro when the M1 is basically the same thing. There is nothing special about Apple putting the M1 into the iPad Pro as it’s the logical successor to the A12Z.
2) As another commenter pointed out, Apple is not going to add Pro-exclusive features to iPadOS and ignore the base model iPad which is the highest selling iPad. Much as macOS runs the same features on a MacBook Air as it does a Mac Pro, iPadOS has to be able to run the same on a five year old iPad Air 2 as it does on the M1 iPad Pro.
3) The extra memory in the 2021 iPad Pro is targeted primarily at multitasking, though the amount of memory available to each app is still greater than it was on the 2020 iPad Pro, and on 16GB models you can now run more apps at once without them resetting or being suspended.
4) Quite frankly, Apple doesn’t want you using your iPad as your sole computer. They want you to go out and buy a Mac and an iPad and an iPhone and to connect them all with paid iCloud services.
1) The M1 is a gussied up A14X. The differences between the M1 and the A14 are almost identical to the A12Z and the A12 - double the performance cores, extra graphics cores, double the memory bus, etc. Apple’s not going to go through the trouble of making an A14X for the iPad Pro when the M1 is basically the same thing. There is nothing special about Apple putting the M1 into the iPad Pro as it’s the logical successor to the A12Z.
2) As another commenter pointed out, Apple is not going to add Pro-exclusive features to iPadOS and ignore the base model iPad which is the highest selling iPad. Much as macOS runs the same features on a MacBook Air as it does a Mac Pro, iPadOS has to be able to run the same on a five year old iPad Air 2 as it does on the M1 iPad Pro.
3) The extra memory in the 2021 iPad Pro is targeted primarily at multitasking, though the amount of memory available to each app is still greater than it was on the 2020 iPad Pro, and on 16GB models you can now run more apps at once without them resetting or being suspended.
4) Quite frankly, Apple doesn’t want you using your iPad as your sole computer. They want you to go out and buy a Mac and an iPad and an iPhone and to connect them all with paid iCloud services.
For no reason either. But leadership in California has been in the toilet for decades.
Nothing that hasn’t already been said, but jumping in to say this was extremely disappointing.
Good decision. The M1 Air is amazing. That's the exact same model I recommended to my brother. He's been loving it.
It has become clear at this point that they do not give a single **** about what iPad users and reviewers want.
Everybody made the same requests and we were completely ignored.No wonder they want everyone back to the office.