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Apple Shares New Series of How To Videos Focusing on iPad and iOS 11

iOS is slowly becoming more and more Mac-like. I can definitely see Apple migrating both platforms together and ditching intel. Maybe we'll get much faster speeds and more tech when that happens.

My 2016 Macbook feels just marginally faster than my 2012 Macbook. 4 years of processor updates and not much to show - perhaps only a 20-25% increase in speed??
 
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odd that Apple released videos on features you can't currently do. Maybe iOS 11 is coming sooner than Sept?
 
Appleaker said:
Nice videos, not as effective as the PC replacement ads, but also not annoying.
Outdated icons and there could be more features highlighted, but I like them. Very useful since iPad will be harder to get used to after iOS 11 (not everything is obvious).
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Thoughts exactly. They're are also fun and to the point.
 
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Zirel said:
Here's how to sign a document on Linux:

1. Recompile your kernel
2. Install the scanner driver
3. Download a Windows driver for your scanner that will get emulated to Linux (this actually happens for WiFi)
4. Find out there's a bug with your scanner, buy a new one
5. Find a PDF program that does one thing well, but doesn't do another things well
6. Change your distro, because the package for that particular PDF software is outdated and you really don't know how to compile the source by hand
7. Finally sign the document
8. Save the document to /tmp
9. Open your mail App
10. Send the PDF in a tar.gz
11. Recipient doesn't know WTF is a .tar.gz
12. Succumb to .zip, and send it again.
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Linux is a nightmare. Only masochists use it :D
 
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If the designers had done their jobs right, it would be clear enough to do these things without having to watch instructional videos.
 
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Zirel said:
Here's how to sign a document on Linux:

1. Recompile your kernel
2. Install the scanner driver
3. Download a Windows driver for your scanner that will get emulated to Linux (this actually happens for WiFi)
4. Find out there's a bug with your scanner, buy a new one
5. Find a PDF program that does one thing well, but doesn't do another things well
6. Change your distro, because the package for that particular PDF software is outdated and you really don't know how to compile the source by hand
7. Finally sign the document
8. Save the document to /tmp
9. Open your mail App
10. Send the PDF in a tar.gz
11. Recipient doesn't know WTF is a .tar.gz
12. Succumb to .zip, and send it again.
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1. Why?
2. Why? SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) takes care of scanning like CUPS does printing.
3. See 2.
4. A bug in your scanner effects all operating systems.
5. Things that do "one thing well" is the Unix philosophy; you know the same Unix macOS is build on.
6. But you do know, you did it in step 1.
7. Just like any OS.
8. ./tmp is a sub-folder of Root, you would have to give permissions to save there. You would use your Home directory.
9. Just like any OS.
10. Why compress it at all?
11. macOS will open .tar.gz just dandy.
12. See 10. & 11.

Here's how it goes it reality

1. Scan document using Simple Scan (a front-end for SANE).
2. Open PDF ,ANY PDF program will do.
3. Print to PDF using CUPS (Common Unix Print System , yes the same macOS uses).
5. Sign document.
6. Save to your./home/USER/Documents.
7. Open your mail app, attach and send.

Either you haven't used Linux for sometime or you used it badly.
 
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ErikGrim said:
Odd how these are released now without even noting that iOS 11 isn't out yet, coming soon etc. Are we looking at an early release?

EDIT: Microscopic grey on grey disclaimer says iOS11 will be out by end of year.
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Yeah and most likely by the middle of next month!
 
WatchFromAfar said:
Here's how it goes it reality

1. Scan document using Simple Scan (a front-end for SANE).
2. Open PDF ,ANY PDF program will do.
3. Print to PDF using CUPS (Common Unix Print System , yes the same macOS uses).
5. Sign document.
6. Save to your./home/USER/Documents.
7. Open your mail app, attach and send.

Either you haven't used Linux for sometime or you used it badly.
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1. Make an iPad photo
2. Send it via iMessage

3. Try to remember when you last used Linux?
 
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Good videos. Simple and effective demonstrations of what iOS 11/iPad can do over and above using it as a giant phone screen. Nothing new for those of us posting here but for Joe Public, this is a quick and light hearted illustration of a bunch of things they probably didn't know iPad could do.

Getting closer and closer to replacing my 2017 iPad and 2011 MBP with an iPad Pro and keyboard cover. 90% of what I use my laptop for I now do on my iPad anyway.
iOS 11 can bridge probably another 5% in a way more portable & convenient package.
 
Zxxv said:
Apple. Its so simple to use. Boss, we need to make tutorial videos on how to use it.
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I see it as more of getting the word out there that the iPad will soon be capable of all these aforementioned features. This way, it can help boost iPad sales which in turn eats into sales of competing tablets. Double whammy there.
 
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I like the videos, maybe a bit childish, but common, there's nothing pro about them. I hate the example of the designer sending some of his "work" to the customer using iMessages. Is this the let's-all-play-together-and-pretend-it's-work-generation?

My work is a messy, multitasking process requiring a real tool like a mac. I tried using my iPad for work, but I quickly gave up in frustration. iOS 11 might take some of the edges off, but calling it pro is a far stretch.

And hoorray, they finally have a Files app in 2017. Rather than celebrating this, they should admit the whole vision to hide the file system was a failure. And are we still stuck with the mandatory folders for each app fiasco in iOS 11, or is that finally gone?
 
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In the second video is shows the user long pressing on a dock icon, which brings up a list of the most recently opened documents. Is this an unannounced feature? I’m running the dev beta for iOS 11 and this doesn’t work - icons just start “doing the wiggle”.

EDIT: It does work.
 
The current iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) is a lovely device which will realise its full potential with iOS 11. This is how Touch Screen Computers are done by Apple. And yet for me, this new device in all its glory still promotes using both the MacBook Pro 15" and the iPad Pro 10.5" to fully benefit from the designs of both devices in different situations.
 
I hope the file app will be that seamless when iOS 11 finally launches, when I click on Onedrive I just get a TouchID popup and it takes me into the app like normal, it's not really properly integrated into Files.
 
hagar said:
I like the videos, maybe a bit childish, but common, there's nothing pro about them. I hate the example of the designer sending some of his "work" to the customer using iMessages. Is this the let's-all-play-together-and-pretend-it's-work-generation?

My work is a messy, multitasking process requiring a real tool like a mac. I tried using my iPad for work, but I quickly gave up in frustration. iOS 11 might take some of the edges off, but calling it pro is a far stretch.

And hoorray, they finally have a Files app in 2017. Rather than celebrating this, they should admit the whole vision to hide the file system was a failure. And are we still stuck with the mandatory folders for each app fiasco in iOS 11, or is that finally gone?
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Work is whatever people decide it to be. I am a teacher using my iPad for work and iOS 11 looks set to supercharge my workflow even more. There are things I do on my iPad which would be an even greater hassle to carry out on my Mac.
 
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