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Apple Working With More Than 40 Tech Companies to Make iPad a Better Work Tool
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they gotta get this hooked up:
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/2...or-3d-gesture-control-on-touchscreen-devices/
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(at least for the picture being shown in the OP)..
it would (possibly) make 3d modeling on an ipad possible.. especially if they can come up with something a little less elementary than the examples in the patent.
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/2...or-3d-gesture-control-on-touchscreen-devices/
(at least for the picture being shown in the OP)..
it would (possibly) make 3d modeling on an ipad possible.. especially if they can come up with something a little less elementary than the examples in the patent.
Not when Apple will charge more than $500. Expect a 13" model to start at $600 maybe even more. A larger iPad will not save the tablet. Apple needs to cram OS X with USB C in the iPad form factor to move units. Not only does that help tablets but it get's OS X in more people's hands. Keep iOS in the current models and OS X in the big boy size.
People are loving Windows 10 over Windows 8. Soon you're going to find full blown Win 10 in sub $100 tablets. Apple better get with the program.
What's the point of having a tablet if you don't use it as a tablet?
Agreed!!
I hate to say it, but Microsoft was 1st with a viable tablet experience for enterprise. Apple really needs to think about OSX Tablet edition. Windows 10 is killer with switching to tablet and laptop modes (finally they got it right) and Apple is absent from the field all together.
All the apps in the appstore can't fix the issue. I somehow can't believe Apple isn't working towards that internally.... but then, I also thought buying beats they'd put decent speakers in new macs too. Even if you dont put beats in the category of decent speakers, it's a million times better than the macbook pro speakers.
because then you need to carry TWO devices ALL the time. The tablet is fully capable for word processing, spreadsheets, power point.... but have you ever tried doing more than viewing one? You definitely give it the finger.... but not to add text.
That's why we have Bluetooth keyboards. I'm just not getting the mouse thing. You have a fully touch enabled device but aren't using the touch functionality. A stylus is more prominent for this issue.
The irony is, Apple has patents dating back a few years related to multiuser logins - well before Android supported it. I was so sure Apple was going to support it when they included Touch ID on iPad but I guess that's not a priority for them.
Ok, so out of the MILLIONS of businesses that DON’T/WON’T buy/run iPads what would suggest it is? Without a survey I don’t reckon he/she is too far from the truth.
You mean what Microsoft does all the time?!?!?!
Businesses stayed with XP because it was better than Vista and was not worth training for. 7 was worth it and newer, and they finally made the jump. 8 scared consumers and businesses away, and you can be sure as hell no enterprise used 8, they always downgraded new computers.
Argument is completely and utterly invalid.
Judging by how furiously they seem to apply for these, ‘see what sticks and what we can keep to ourselves’ filings, Apple probably have patents for wiping my arse.
Three things left that I've wanted to see since iOS 1.0 to make it more useful for work:
1- A user and third party app accessible shared file space. Given the OSX guts, it should be trivial to make an iOS version of Finder. If security and stability are concerns, no need to make the entire file system user accessible, just a common storage space for user data.
2- Related to 1, the ability to connect external storage devices (like thumb drives) or connect to a computer and be seen as an external storage device so that files could be copied back & forth to the the user accessible file space.
3- Capability to work with off-screen pointing devices, such as a wired or wireless mouse or trackpad. The Mac based iOS development environment already does this in the iOS simulator, so it too should be a trivial addition.
The current workarounds for these deficiencies are unnecessarily clumsy and hold iOS back from reaching its full potential as a work tool.
1- A user and third party app accessible shared file space. Given the OSX guts, it should be trivial to make an iOS version of Finder. If security and stability are concerns, no need to make the entire file system user accessible, just a common storage space for user data.
2- Related to 1, the ability to connect external storage devices (like thumb drives) or connect to a computer and be seen as an external storage device so that files could be copied back & forth to the the user accessible file space.
3- Capability to work with off-screen pointing devices, such as a wired or wireless mouse or trackpad. The Mac based iOS development environment already does this in the iOS simulator, so it too should be a trivial addition.
The current workarounds for these deficiencies are unnecessarily clumsy and hold iOS back from reaching its full potential as a work tool.
They could have started by continuing to support the professional use and application they had eg photography through Aperture and made it compatible with the iPad instead of just dumbing it down in Photos.
To use the iPad as a work tool, and anything more than a half-hearted "viewer" of work performed on a desktop, Apple would have to create a "Pro" model, not as a mobile device as previous models have been, but as a creative slate tablet, like the world was briefly excited and then colossally disappointed over when Microsoft couldn't pull it off 15 years ago.
It is not 2002. Don't let 2002's limitations continue to hold back progress. Build the professional tablet: A large 13, 14 or 15 inch display, a wacom digitizer, Intel chipset, and the full OS X experience, WHICH DOES WORK PERFECTLY FINE UNDER FINGERTIP WHEN ON A LARGE DISPLAY.
Don't even pitch it as a mobile device. It's not. It's a hands-on creative notebook that is more portable than a notebook, and more accurate and powerful than a laptop with a mouse. It's what people in every creative field have been waiting for someone to make forever, and apparently only Apple has the ability to properly produce well. ...but won't, because that wouldn't fit with the self-limiting narrative they've filled your heads with up til now.
It is not 2002. Don't let 2002's limitations continue to hold back progress. Build the professional tablet: A large 13, 14 or 15 inch display, a wacom digitizer, Intel chipset, and the full OS X experience, WHICH DOES WORK PERFECTLY FINE UNDER FINGERTIP WHEN ON A LARGE DISPLAY.
Don't even pitch it as a mobile device. It's not. It's a hands-on creative notebook that is more portable than a notebook, and more accurate and powerful than a laptop with a mouse. It's what people in every creative field have been waiting for someone to make forever, and apparently only Apple has the ability to properly produce well. ...but won't, because that wouldn't fit with the self-limiting narrative they've filled your heads with up til now.
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u are a good person. i always take care of my apple products...it's just that...for some reason..after upgrades after upgrades...it just burns out...
Yeah, Wacom keeps getting closer, and perhaps their next model won't sound like a helicopter or start your desk on fire. Superior digitizer experience though. ...but as a whole, they're a ways out yet. Even Microsoft's Surface team doesn't seem to have the engineering resources apple does, because the Surface 3s, for their obvious utilitarian strengths, are still crude and clunky compared to an iPad. ...even those cheap knockoff iPads on ebay exude more quality. The first company that makes a tablet with the utility of a full OS & Passive Digitizer, with the build quality of an iPad, will win.
Surface 4 is due, iPad Pro is due.
Should be an interesting season.
Pretty much. The iPad will continue to go nowhere unless its productivity aspects increase. And I don't mean document processing, but just simply being useful to the average person beyond simply being a bigger screen to watch stuff on.
I've never understood why Apple thought that was a good decision. Everything in iOS is just too damn plain. I have button shapes turned on, which helps somewhat, but everything is still far too boring. Tons of black and white, the UI widgets are all boring and uninspired, etc.
P.S. If anyone tells me that the new UI is good because it looks "modern", I'm going to skin a cat. Please think of the kitties...