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Concept Imagines iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island on iPad
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I could only see the Island coming to iPad if it wasn’t accompanied by a physical holepunch for camera and sensors. An entirely virtual Island would be doable, but I cant see Apple adding hole punches and locking iPad users into either portrait or landscape.
Similarly for the Mac. The cursor wouldn’t be able to move on top of a physical cutout. Either they’d have to go iPadOS style and make the cursor focus and wrap around the Island, or they’d have to change how it works entirely.
Similarly for the Mac. The cursor wouldn’t be able to move on top of a physical cutout. Either they’d have to go iPadOS style and make the cursor focus and wrap around the Island, or they’d have to change how it works entirely.
Depends you you use your ipad. I mostly use mine with a keyboard. I thought current ipads could also tell when you're touching some of the screen as holding it and not act as a screen touch? Could be wrong though.
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I would not mind smaller bezels on the iPad, AS LONG AS the cameras fit inside it.
An intrusion into the iPad’s screen is not acceptable.
I also don’t see Apple switching the camera to landscape.
The iPad is primarily designed as a hand-held device, and holding the iPad in landscape is harder than in portrait.
An intrusion into the iPad’s screen is not acceptable.
I also don’t see Apple switching the camera to landscape.
The iPad is primarily designed as a hand-held device, and holding the iPad in landscape is harder than in portrait.
No on iPads but I can see something like this replacing the new MacBook Pro notch. But Apple will probably want to rearchitect how they handle the whole status icon section. That whole section has become a hodge podge of disjointed icons with developers doing anything they want.
This would be the ideal and obvious way to go regarding the MacBook's notch. Just build a pill shape cutout into every display and go the Dynamic Island way..
I just hope that, if they did do these things, that they wouldn't limit it to only M1 & up devices, like Stage Manager. I'm sure my 2018 iPad Pro w/ 1TB of storage could run it. Or even my Intel based Mac mini with a 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 and 64GB of RAM.... Works alright on my M1 MBP with only 16GB of RAM...
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The bloody island is code for “we haven’t solved the under-the-screen camera yet”. Its a compromise, not a feature.
I'd rather Apple implement this via software only on larger devices, instead of add a pill just to implement this feature. Which is a solution in search of a problem. Although, if the MacBook Pro loses the notch and replaces it with the pill...I'm all in.
Everyone is expected to shell out another $300+ for the magic keyboard, so you never hold the iPad itself. I know I'm in the minority but I prefer white bezels, fingerprints were less visible on my old iPad Pro
Have you used an iPad, Apple has a virtual dead zone on the edges the detects if you're holding or tapping there. It's been there since probably the first iPad
I'm already not a fan of the whole punch-holes-in-the-screen gimmick and my current devices (iPhone SE 2, iPad Mini 5, iPad 9th gen) will be the last I own since they are most likely the last with a physical home button. The inclusion of the Dynamic Island will just seal-the-deal for me to ensure that these devices are my last.
Apple was wise to introduce the Dynamic Island now. It gives people time to express and work out their feelings about it so that when the devices are available, they'll be ready to plunk down cash for the thing they were complaining about just weeks before.
Apple was wise to introduce the Dynamic Island now. It gives people time to express and work out their feelings about it so that when the devices are available, they'll be ready to plunk down cash for the thing they were complaining about just weeks before.
With the accelerometer it could reject input from one hand since it would know it’s being picked up. I hate bezels.
The moment an iPad gets a notch in the display is the day I stop buying ipads.
Weird, it makes no sense to bring a feature designed to camouflage an area that can't have screen on it. Oh well, I guess people are excited about stage manager as well. Next thing Apple fans will clamor for will be a hardware cutout on the iPads.
Meh. I noticed when I pick up my iPad Pro my thumb looks like it's covering the bezel, but from an angle it's only half. These mockup bezels look close to how iPad Pro bezels used to be anyway.
Alternatively, they can make virtual bezels.
People still do that? 😉 Apple‘s iPad hardware (Keyboard) doesn‘t work in portrait either, not to mention multi tasking is much more limited in portrait. Landscape seems to be Apple‘s main direction. I’m just hoping they finally move (or add) the camera to the landscape side.
