I would be surprised if there isn't an engineer who has tried to voice their opinion on this dual boot feature (for the iPad) in that highly fortified bubble that is the UFO campus...
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Gurman: Redesigned Magic Keyboard to Accompany New iPad Pro
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Yes, I too try to keep as much on iCloud, and do stick with Apple apps, as much as possible, for better data integrity.
I presume your iPad's non-Apple apps have their individual config settings stored on third-party servers that are tied to your login credentials, while the app's data stays on iCloud.
But you've got to be careful with Time Machine and iCloud: TM only back's up files that are on-device.
So, yeah, looks good enough, just about !
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The above is why, to your question below.
There's not as much duplicated effort as you may suspect, at the core both platforms are similar, but iOS has the freedom from legacy software compatibility that macOS does not.
Apple can be more experimental without breaking things on iOS, before figuring out how to back-port things back to macOS without breaking things, or at a slow enough pace where the breakage (on the application side) is acceptable in small amounts.
The path is the same, the end-point is similar, iOS and iPadOS are just further down the line of evolution in some respects (security wise), but behind and evolving in other respects (feature wise, within the iOS security restrictions).
e.g., cut/paste on the IOS devices goes through an application firewall. that's not something that used to exist on macOS (Just had a shared clipboard anything could snoop) and why it had to be re-implemented.
re: dual booting
Take it from somebody who did dual boot windows/linux for over a decade - dual boot sucks. You end up sticking in whatever platform you're currently in because the time and effort required to reboot is more than the gain you'd get from being in the other OS.
It's wasted time that doesn't need to occur if you can engineer the one platform to work better.
Yeah, something similar to Samsung's DeX feature, but way more capable because Apple owns the entire stack (mobile + desktop).
$10k first gen Apple Watch Gold Edition didn't move on to a second edition.
Then what about the iPhone mini? Did those people leave too?
I literally created an account just to respond to this post, it so conflicts with reality as to spawn a psychological uncanny valley sensation that we’re living in a simulation.lol Myself and many others would not have chosen the “Pro” model of the iPad were it not for the ability to type as well as use the touchpad as it is SOOOOO much faster, seamless and more convenient than typing/reaching. I’m at least twice as fast on my iPad/MK combo than I am on my MacBook Pro. But don’t take our “anecdotal” word for it; instead, put it to a poll or just have a gander over on Amazon and see the nearly 5000 ratings at an average 4.7 (which even if some percentage are fake, still far exceeds the competition). And even the competition are providing the same invaluable product! Is it perfect? No. Can the UX be improved? Of course. Is it the best iPad accessory outside of a power cord? Probably.
I don’t consider my iPad as dependable as my Mac, especially for work, because the iPad doesn’t have a good versioned backup system. I too work around this by syncing to my Mac which runs Time Machine, but depending on the app and specific data I want to retrieve, it’s very much a workaround and not always even possible to recover.
I don’t know what form it would take, probably can’t be local, but I would really appreciate some native form of versioned backup system for my iPad, where I can confidently and easily retrieve any data from an old backup of my iPad that I need. iPhone too for that matter.
Are you ok? It literally made my mouse disappear because universal control was enabled by default and I didn't mean to move my mouse to my iPad.
Not that that's the main point but you're just completely wrong when you said "it would never ever be visible or affect you"
Are you really ok? What 4S antenna? You mean 4? You REALLY going to point to that screw up as the one that actually had lasting effect when the other phones by competitors had the same issue?
And Apple Maps is pretty good now.
Regardless you're missing the point.
Now you're just clutching at straws. Try harder to formulate a constructive argument.
It apparently is considering Apple is supporting iPadOS 17 on the A10 Fusion while the A11 in my iPhone X is not.
4.7 rating on Amazon for butterfly switch MacBook Pro with touchbar and about 5000 reviews. What's your point? Does this mean Apple should have kept butterfly switch keys and touchbar?
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I wouldn't say "No" to time machine or version management for iCloud backups, just that with Time Machine already backing up my mac's copy of it, its less necessary for me.
I'm pretty sure you can actually restore from multiple different iCloud backups (i.e., different points in time) but it's been so long since I did a restore from iCloud I can't remember. But pretty sure when I did, it gave me several points in time to restore from.
You said watch. I pointed you to a watch failure. Now you don't like your own argument. That's amazing.
Have a good one.
I said more than the word "watch".
I said the watch took until the s4 to be good. Maybe read and understand before just spraying at random words selected from posts.
It's not just games.
Books, for example, (whether kindle or iBooks) are just naturally easier to read in portrait, but the Magic Keyboard makes that next to impossible.
Good thing it detaches
The keyboard I use (Not the Magic Keyboard because IMHO that's massively overpriced) pops off and reverses to clip onto the back of the tablet so you can use it in portrait.
So on one single occasion, you moved your mouse on your Mac and it ended up on your iPad. How is that Apples biggest mistake compared to the examples I gave and many others?
What point am I missing?
That might help, but whether restoring from iCloud or Mac, the process of retrieving the data is very convoluted, as you have to first backup the iPad (of course), then guess which backup version has the data you need, then restore the entire state of the device to that backup, go to the app that contains the data, somehow extract the data (if that’s even possible depending on the app), then restore the iPad back to the most recent backup, then reimport that data (if possible depending on the app).
I’ve done this a couple times and it ain’t fun.
You probably missed the part where I said "Not that that's the main point "
Instead of Apple having engineers making multitouch/multitasking better, they're spending time on half-baked solutions for mediocre experiences that a Mac has already solved. Waste of resources that a portion of my $799 paid for and has a large opportunity cost.
Better example is probably documents. They’re often portrait oriented, so it’s naturally easier to keep them in portrait while typing/working on them.
That was a great product as well. Evolving and improving a design go without saying BUT you keep the product and don’t just discontinue due to the fact that it’s not perfect or you think an enormous company can’t focus on multiple products. People find ways to complain about literally everything. Ironically, I have both the butterfly keys and touchbar on my MBP and they’ve worked flawlessly. No need to get into the pedantic weeds on this debate though; put simply, an iPad keyboard and touchpad (from whatever brand) is a hugely useful and successful peripheral device catering to a very large market demand that Apple would be foolish to ignore. Those facts are beyond debate.
Hardware is NOT the problem. Apple's stubborn refusal to finally run proper software on iPads is.
removing touch bar + going back to function keys and undoing changes to keyboard today sounds like a revert, not an evolution.
You suggested " instead, put it to a poll or just have a gander over on Amazon". So I did as you suggested and had a gander over on Amazon. Not really "pedantic weeds"
Well, we’re fresh out of straws because you’re obviously clutching them all. It’s been…entertaining, cheers!