I don’t use navigation or astronomy apps on my iPad.
The convenience of cellular for internet and file access is very nice however, without the hassle of tethering from my phone and without killing my iPhone’s battery.
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The convenience of cellular for internet and file access is very nice however, without the hassle of tethering from my phone and without killing my iPhone’s battery.
I’m hearing all kinds of rumors about the coronavirus, so I need to ask this: Because the new iPad Pro will ship from China, has Apple decided if the purchase price will include a CDC-certified hazmat suit?
Absolutely no way this rumor is true. There is literally nothing that needs to be updated in the current iPad lineups that would enhance any major functionality rather than a bunch of little “nice to haves.” A more relalisti timeframe will be after iOS 14 is released, and after developers can develop games/apps for them and have adequate time to stage their dancing demos for the October event.
People saying they don't use the camera, is that partly because it's not that good and needs an upgrade?
So because you don’t think it needs updating that means it won’t be updated?
Of course you can use your phone, but taking notes on a small phone isn't the best experience. I keep my ipad with me to take notes in meetings as well, so I use the apple pencil quite often and I prefer to have the bigger screen to work with.
It's a question of preference really, it's like watching movies on a 32inch TV in your living room. It can be done, but I'd prefer a 55inch TV.
All I ask for is a frikin’ built in calculator. It’s a $1000 computer, right?
And no, I won’t pay for one or download a free crap ad-filled app.
And no, I won’t pay for one or download a free crap ad-filled app.
I want an iPad Pro with No Camera bump. So I can lay it flat on the surface.
I hope you also realize that none of these things will ever happen.
Pop it in a case, done!
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Tbf.. the iPhone 8/X is more then enough for everyone.. the cameras are still solid. Why bother making the Xs/11?
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I guess this is an attempt at a Joke?
Sure, but what would a 3-camera iPad Pro do for you that an entry level iPad wouldn't?
Me too. I haven’t been excited about ANY of the new iPad rumors until I heard about them releasing a new backlit keyboard. That really buttered my biscuit
I use an iPad mini as a dedicated Skype camera. It sits on a small tripod. I could see people using Minis as dedicated Facetime, Skype, etc devices. I know I do it.
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Distance learning. I have a dedicated mini just for this purpose sitting on a small tripod and already on and ready.
It's be great if we could use it as a 3D scanner. But to be useful it'd have to be way more accurate than the current measure app.
I know, it is my wishful thinking. 😔
The iPad is so behind, last week I had a meeting from the field, I had to share my screen as were the other Engineers and it was impossible, the were using Surface tablets, and I literally had to take a screenshot of everything I wanted to show and share it that way.
I could not work on the data I was collecting, I had to wait every night until I got to the hotel, exhausted, to work on it on a proper computer... But hey, at least today we can connect an external drive and access files, before that was also impossible.
I love my iPad Pro, but it really is no computer replacement yet.
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The current Measure app is incredibly imprecise.
I'm close with my family and have to be on the other side of the country for work, so I use Facetime all the time. It's very different from just talking on the phone, something about seeing the other person makes it seem like they're right there.
yea but how do you hold it when out and about? hand all over screen . the bazels kinda help to have grip. I also walk and read with mine. the top bottom bagels could be cut in half though.
Ok. Agree it is preference. But given the way iOS works, it Is incredibly simple to use your phone to take the picture and your ipad to mark it up. Best tool for each job, as they say.
Maybe you already know this, but you can scan documents on your phone by using Notes.app
Open Notes, click the little camera icon, and the menu will give you a "Scan" option.
I mention this because it has many advantages over taking a photo as a scan:
(1) the scanner app will automatically align and crop the document you are scanning, so you don't need to be able to see a big version. You just point the camera sort of in the direction of the document and give it a few seconds; it will do the rest.
(2) it takes the scan automatically as soon as it locks onto the image, you don't even have to press a button. Even better, you can put a second page down (or turn the document) and it will take a second scan, then a third, fourth, whatever, to create a multipage PDF. The only button you have to press is after all your pages are done, when you say "Save".
(3) This is all hooked into what is called Continuity Camera which means you can do it from your Mac. Open a Note on your Mac and you can, likewise, click the appropriate icon to get your phone into scanner mode, and the scan will dump into the Note on your Mac. In THEORY you can also do it from Mail, but in Mojave that doesn't seem to actually work :-( Maybe it works in Catalina, but I haven't tried yet.
It's supposed to work in a few other apps as well, but Mail is the one I care about (wish it worked!) and Notes (use it all the time).
Continuity Camera: Use your iPhone or iPad to scan documents or take a picture on your Mac - Apple Support
Use your iPhone or iPad to scan documents or take a picture of something nearby and have it appear instantly on your Mac.
BTW if you do this in Notes, it is supposed to OCR the scan and if you search (iPhone or Mac) the relevant note should come up if it includes what you're looking for. This appears to work (has always worked for me), but Apple doesn't (yet?) give you full access to the OCR'd text, only indirect access by search. Maybe they don't yet trust the quality of the OCR, so they don't want people being disappointed by a high error rate (one error every sentence or so?).
If you care about OCR, IMHO BY FAR the best solution today (though it's a little it of a hassle) is to drop the PDF scan in a Google Drive, then open your Google Drive web page and ask to export the PDF as some sort of text document. This is a hassle as a frequent work flow, but works so well if you have infrequent OCR needs, especially if the source material is pretty low quality.
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You need to think laterally. Eg it can be useful at the supermarket, where you can show someone "Are these the veggies you want? How about those ones?" Same thing when buying clothes, furniture, so many things when someone else's opinion might matter.
Think of it as image teleportation, not JUST as a way to see other people's faces.
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Not sure EXACTLY what you mean by "share screen", but if this is a common problem"
- one solution is to have a large screen with an aTV connected to it. Everyone can view the large screen. An app like Air Parrot allows Surface to broadcast to an aTV, so everyone gets their turn to present to the group.
- there are also cross platform screen sharing solutions (like WebEx Teams) that will allow you to share the iPad screen to Surface (and various other devices) and vice versa.
My guess is the aTV solution is probably better, everyone looking up at a single large screen, but point is multiple types of solutions do exist.
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If the new iPad Pro consists of an A13X, Wi-Fi 6 and the cellular version has the improvements to 4G/LTE that the 11 Pro has, alongside improved dual camera or triple cameras, they’ll have a winner. I wish they would make it a touch thicker and put the headphone jack back on it. Yeah, I know, I’m a Luddite. I just thought that removing it was completely silly when the iPad doesn’t really need be that thin. Also, thicker and some adjustments to the plastic pieces might eliminate the bending issues. Seriously I use the headphone jack on my 2017 12.9” iPad Pro all the time while it’s plugged in or has an SSD plugged in to it. A dock seems a little silly just to get the audio jack back.
It was a remote meeting, people from Taiwan, USA, and Colombia, connected through internet.
If the iPhone 11 had Apple Pencil support, I would tend to agree with you. For me, I applied to do a freelance job photographing rental properties that required a cellular iPad and this upcoming one, if it ships with a triple camera setup would allow me to leave the DLSR at home, while giving me the ability to draw the required diagrams, take photos and upload all from a single device. Now, this may seem edge-case for a lot of people, but an 11” iPad Pro then becomes another tool altogether for a lot of vertical industries, which is where Apple needs to spur growth given the lackluster sales share that it had in Apple’s last financials. There is no reason to believe that Apple would raise the price for a triple camera setup. They kept the prices on the iPhone 11 models the same while adding lenses to each. I’m itching to see if the video quality improvements on the iPhone 11 show up on the iPad Pro. If they do, there’s an under-tapped market there as well.
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The camera is very handy if you use the iPad for note taking and need to add an image of something you are looking at, whether it's a whiteboard or a slide. You can annotate on the spot. Document scanning and using the camera to analyze things have also been quite useful. I'm sure not everyone uses it, but better zoom/wide angle is gong to be a pretty good improvement for those that do.