Federighi said the iPad's new cursor experience was inspired by the Apple TV:
He told the developers, “Don’t do that, or you’re fired.”
Federighi said the iPad's new cursor experience was inspired by the Apple TV:
Well they made it distinguished from the way it was pre-13.4, on iOS 13, and made a big fuss about it.
so that's what I'm asking about. Comments like these aren't helpful at all
I always go back to the puck mouse...I don't think Apple has EVER done anything as ridiculous as this in it's history.
I always go back to the puck mouse...
I always go back to the puck mouse...
I'm guessing most of these execs have quite a bit of life left as far as retirement goes. However, there is no guarantee that new minds bring fresh air. The air could be as stale as the San Fernando Valley on a hot summers' day.I can't wait for this old guard of Apple execs to step down and let some new minds and fresh air into the company, than have them geek out about a cursor on an otherwise unchanging (and buggy af) OS and experience.
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Which FPS game? I tried one at random and it tracked the cursor fine. My iPad is set to treat a touch as a click, though, so that may be a difference?So if you visit a website that you need to click in to and control, like a FPS game or something, it won’t move the screen unless you click the button and hold it down like you were touching the screen.
I’m still wondering why the first gen Magic Mouse can’t scroll on iPadOS. Somebody ask Craig about it.
"There was a process to figure out exactly how various elements would work together," Federighi says. "We knew we wanted a very touch-centric cursor that was not conveying an unnecessary level of precision. We knew we had a focus experience similar to Apple TV that we could take advantage of in a delightful way. We knew that when dealing with text we wanted to provide a greater sense of feedback."
Ridiculous $700US pricing for optional wheels of the Mac Pro - I don't think Apple has EVER done anything as ridiculous as this in it's history.
I’ve turned that feature off (Settings -> Accessibility -> Pointer Control -> Pointer Animations). I’m actually fine with the animations, it’s the cursor disappearing while they animate that’s the problem, it means you’re not 100% sure where it’ll appear when it comes out of the other side, which spoils the smooth flowing feeling of moving the cursor.
Yeah so they added a standard cursor to the iPad. which is great btw. but should have been there from the beginning....
- With animations turned off I find it’s exactly what a cursor should be, does what you’d expect almost all of the time. There’s nothing special about it, good or bad. Honestly being a circle rather than an makes no difference at all for me.
- With animations turned on (as they are by default and the setting is hidden) it’s a slightly subpar experience in my opinion.
- Not getting tooltips on mouse-over in Safari is unintuitive.
so what's novel about the ipad's cursor? at best it's how all these things work together in 'novel' way...
The remote is a design for trying to barely meet a solution for multiple scenarios and trying to hodgepodge it into one device, while not being able to do any one particular solution really well.Well, to be fair, my Siri remote is at a constant health risk of me throwing it off my balcony to the rocks below, because I despite that piece of trash. Can I disable that completely-useless PiP option that constantly gets in the way when I try to rewind or fast forward? How about making the rewind/FF actually operational and be consistent? Too often, I get the "(10)" in the circle but clicking does nothing... ugh. Then a slightest twitch makes the giant PIP option highlighted (which is barely noticeable, so I can't tell), then BAM... my enjoyment of the content is trash and I'm missing parts of the episode. Grrr.
I'm infinitely-close to throwing out that remote and just using my iPhone instead from now on. I *hate* that remote. I found my old ATV 2/3 stick but it didn't seem to work on my ATV4K. :-/
omg i love apple products but leave it to them to make it out like adding a cursor is some Davinci moment. You added mouse/trackpad functionality and need there to be a visual onscreen cue--big deal. Like every computer in the known universe hasn't had a cursor since the 90s. Please.
The remote is a design for trying to barely meet a solution for multiple scenarios and trying to hodgepodge it into one device, while not being able to do any one particular solution really well.