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Especially #3. That would be a whole rewrite. Apple will never make iPadOS like MacOS and risk canabalizing Macbook sales. So I think a MacOS on an iPad is a unicorn that will never, ever happen.
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Especially #3. That would be a whole rewrite. Apple will never make iPadOS like MacOS and risk canabalizing Macbook sales. So I think a MacOS on an iPad is a unicorn that will never, ever happen.
Can’t see Apple using a Titanium case: For lower end iPads it’s too expensive and for the Pro models it’s too heavy (~70% heavier than Aluminum) - the 12.9 is already borderline too heavy.
Yes, Titanium is also quite a bit stronger, but unless Apple is either working on a stationary 27” iPad (as replacement for an iMac, to leverage economies of scale :-D) or just gathering experience with the material to later use it in the rumored AR/VR glasses, I see no benefit from using Titanium over Aluminum for an iPad case.
Yes, Titanium is also quite a bit stronger, but unless Apple is either working on a stationary 27” iPad (as replacement for an iMac, to leverage economies of scale :-D) or just gathering experience with the material to later use it in the rumored AR/VR glasses, I see no benefit from using Titanium over Aluminum for an iPad case.
Having owned and used a MS Surface RT, the last thing I want is a wide aspect ratio tablet. They’re unwieldy, clunky messes and you can forget portrait usage as well. The 4:3 aspect ratio is just fine.
Enough with the crying about bezels. They’re necessary and give people a place that is comfortable to grip from. Psychologically, no bezels is an awful UX all but the tiniest minority of users.
Yes, Apple should create a larger iPad (~14.8”) for those of us who would like a larger iPad Pro. However, as has been pointed out ad inifitnum, iPadOS needs to evolve Big Time. WWDC 2022 will tell us if they have gotten the hint yet.
So just another update where Apple adds hardware or features months to years after a competitor? Typical.
I was suggesting that the camera and faceID could be moved to the long edge and that would get it out of the way of your hand. The corner might be an acceptable compromise between portrait and landscape use.Probably you have some problems with understanding what I wroteI have no wish to change the sensor in favor of Touch ID. Just I think it should be placed somewhere else, not even in the long edge. Maybe it should be placed in a corner where it will be always visible? I love Apple toys and the design, but devices must be convenient and practical too. It is not a painting of the Mona Lisa just for admiring. People are working on them too.
Because Titanium is so much stronger than Aluminum you would need much less to get the same or greater strength. So the weight is not a problem with Titanium giving a stronger case for probably the same weight.
The problem is that Titanium is expensive and expensive to work with. Trying to get a unibody Titanium case is probably not practical. Though if any designers and fabricators can do it, it would be Apple. The other problem is that Titanium scratches pretty easily so Apple would probably want to put a coating on it like they do for the Titanium Apple Watch. The “natural” coat is pretty soft itself and also scratches though it seems to harden over time. The other is the Diamond-Like coating which is much more scratch resistant but also expensive.
All in all, I’m guessing it wouldn’t be worth it.
They did make the "not unibody" Titanium PowerBook G4's.
I miss that one. I should never have sold it.
I really wouldn’t want a non-unibody Mac or iPad.They did make the "not unibody" Titanium PowerBook G4's.
I miss that one. I should never have sold it.
How do you hold it for video calls? portrait or landscape? that would be the telling factor.
I agree with you, but how much closer to a MacBook Air are we getting with the iPad Pro? They're not too far off, with the exception of screen size and OS (there may be more differentiating factors, but I'm too lazy to look at the moment). A fully fleshed out macOS running on an iPad would be a game changer I think for many folks, but like you, I agree, it will never happen.
They would still need to build the Wacom sensor system into the displays of each of those devices. The charging on Apple Pencil is easy
Charging Apple Pencil 2 is easy. The original Apple Pencil, not so much. Well I guess it is easy but definitely not convenient.
I’d wager just a screen tech change for the 11” but otherwise remain the same. I just don’t see a big change on the horizon so soon with the delays they’ve had previously. Like pre-M1 it went from A12x to A12z rather than a full replacement model.
Apple sells ~45M iPads every year. It's hard to imagine that even a third of them are Pro models.
Meanwhile Apple sold 6.5M laptops in Q3 2021, suggesting annual sales of ~25M?
I bring all this up because iPad Pro volumes seemed to only justify one A#X chip every two years. But add in the Mac units and we're talking tripling, quadrupling the volumes.
So while in the past I have expected that perhaps Apple would only update the M# series every two years, the numbers suggest that they might see it as worthwhile updating every year, at least for the next year or two?
Which in turn means, IMHO, that rumors of an M2 (based on the A15 Avalanche+Blizzard) cores strike me as not totally absurd. One can wonder why such devices did not ship earlier, say in November, but many options are possible.
Perhaps the Covid Omicron wave upset plans?
Perhaps they want to switch from a two year cadence for A#Z cores to an 18 month cadence for M# cores?
Perhaps the M2 was specifically delayed because after the M1 shipped and could be tested in bulk, Apple wanted six months to figure out what worked well, what not quite as well, so that they could tweak the M2 to be a much better "Mac-level" SoC? (In other words the plan is M#s every year, but this M2 took a very specific six month delay so that those insights could be retrofitted to the A15 design?)
Aw shucks, I'm in the wrong place. I thought this was Mac innuendo...
Since Apple uncoupled the iPadOS from iOS and introduced the M-series chips in the iPad lineup the expectations have been very high. The sky is the limit for iPad was the thinking but somehow so far it’s been quite underwhelming.
iPad has less apps than iPhone (stock apps like weather and calculator but also 3rd party like Instagram and WhatsApp) and is completely walled off compared to a Mac. iPad is the worst of both worlds - less apps and no flexibility of side loading.
iPad has less apps than iPhone (stock apps like weather and calculator but also 3rd party like Instagram and WhatsApp) and is completely walled off compared to a Mac. iPad is the worst of both worlds - less apps and no flexibility of side loading.
Depends entirely on how you live. In you live in an urban area, the main problem with WiFi is congestion. If that is how you live, 6e would be a blessing, at least for as long as it takes to penetrate the market fully - you simply have much less competition for the newly available channels!
Your comment regarding "worse range" (pretty negligeable between 5 and 6GHz) indicates that you perceive less coverage to be a problem, whereas most people living in apartments curse the reach of all the nearby transmitters. That 6GHz are dampened somewhat quicker by obstructions such as walls is for most people a blessing. Extending your indoors coverage is rarely needed in an apartment, and fairly trivial to achieve anyway. Getting rid of outside interference however is pretty much impossible.
WiFi 6e is good stuff. It’s market window vs. WiFi 7 will be pretty short though, and I’d assume WiFi 7 to penetrate a whole lot faster. After all, it’s a whole number better! Marketing folks love that.
The big benefit of liquid metal wasn’t some magical quality of the finished product, but the ability to injection mold metal parts, similar to how plastic parts are often made, at least that’s what I remember about it.
I‘m one of the people who want titanium for all things Apple. It’s such an interesting metal with its strength and light weight, not to mention the hand feel it typically offers. Magnesium is another metal I’ve liked since I owned a Honda CRX HF back in the ‘80’s that had actual magnesium wheels (for light weight - the car was a fantastic hyper-miler back before people cared about mpg’s). But magnesium has a nasty habit of going up in flames, so it would never be used for an electronics product with a battery that could ignite it.
Pleased to meet you, I'm a professional and I use my iPad Pro regularly in portrait mode.
Yeah but you’re talking an entire reimagining the macOS to work with a touch based system. I don’t care if they add macOS or not. They could add many elements to the iPadOS UI to make it a much more productive software. For example floating windows, full resolution support for external monitor, not simply a 4:3 aspect ratio of the mirror image on the iPad display, redo the files app. That would be a great start. Also, why not allow 3 or more apps to run concurrently? Instead of the Split View mode.
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If they go with titanium I hope it means a thinner back (same weight) but thicker glass front and an anodized color finish!
I get that many feel the iPad Pro is overplayed. I personally don't want MacOS or "true" windowing on my iPad. I would like more/better professional apps (Logic and FCP to start) and an XDR 11" will likely be an instant buy for me.
I get that many feel the iPad Pro is overplayed. I personally don't want MacOS or "true" windowing on my iPad. I would like more/better professional apps (Logic and FCP to start) and an XDR 11" will likely be an instant buy for me.
On the move Always hold it in portrait. However video calls generally work better on landscape hence I use Magic Keyboard for it or the not so great Folio cover when I’m out. I just feel current layout let you use it both ways more ergonomically.