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Apple Product Managers Discuss Cool New iPadOS 18 Features

Why everybody from Apple always wears an Apple watch ultra?, do they really need an Ultra?, nobody wears Casio?, Omega, Tissot, Rolex, IWC, Oris, Seiko, not OTHER brand of smart watch, just a watch that "just works"?. That is not realistic. I wear my Apple watch series 6 on my right hand as a gadget and my mechanical watches on the left.
 
Simmias said:
I owned both Apple Pencil 1 and Apple Pencil 2 and never found a use for them. Now that I’ve upgraded to an M4 iPad Pro, I have no intention of buying another pencil. These new features look cool, but don’t change my mind on that.

As far as handwriting, typing is just a better and faster method of text input. As far as making diagrams or charts, this is easier and neater using shapes in Keynote or PPT. As far as math, apps like Soulver limit the need for handwritten equations.

I’m happy for visual artists or people who still like the idea of handwritten notes for nostalgic or aesthetic reasons, but I personally struggle to see the utility of Apple Pencil outside a few small niches. And Steve Job‘s comment on the downsides of styluses (“you have to get it and put it away…yuck”) still apply. I often lost my pencil when it detached from my iPad and spent a long time rummaging in bags and drawers to find it.
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So why did you buy them in the first place? I use mine a lot to draw in ProCreate.
 
What would be really cool is if we could handwrite html, css and javascript and it understood that properly. Get prettier style colouring and some sort of webpage dev environment.
 
Some great specific features, however iPad OS as we know is stagnating. Hopefully next year we will see more important to multitasking.

Simple things like trying to scroll in google docs/sheets in Safari on their "desktop class web browser" it doesn't work. And the google apps are atrocious which isn't Apple's fault, but if you're in their browser why does it not work exactly like in Safari on Mac?
 
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Simmias said:
I owned both Apple Pencil 1 and Apple Pencil 2 and never found a use for them. Now that I’ve upgraded to an M4 iPad Pro, I have no intention of buying another pencil. These new features look cool, but don’t change my mind on that.

As far as handwriting, typing is just a better and faster method of text input. As far as making diagrams or charts, this is easier and neater using shapes in Keynote or PPT. As far as math, apps like Soulver limit the need for handwritten equations.

I’m happy for visual artists or people who still like the idea of handwritten notes for nostalgic or aesthetic reasons, but I personally struggle to see the utility of Apple Pencil outside a few small niches. And Steve Job‘s comment on the downsides of styluses (“you have to get it and put it away…yuck”) still apply. I often lost my pencil when it detached from my iPad and spent a long time rummaging in bags and drawers to find it.
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There are cases that let have a dedicated space for the Pencil, Spigen has an excellent one that I got for my M1 iPad Pro and I'm pretty happy with it.
 
Math notes looks AMAZING! Graphing, slider to adjust value of variable and graph adjusts. All with hand written equations.
 
RedWeasel said:
Does Apple ever do anything less than „reimagine“ and „magic“?

Their marketing speak really is getting a little long in the tooth.
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The hyperbole is strong with them. I quite literally laughed out loud when they described the M4 iPad Pro's display as "Ultra Retina XDR".
 
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