I really hope you’re right. A notch would be terrible on the iPad ESPECIALLY in landscape.
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Last-Minute Leak Insists 10th-Generation iPad Will Feature Landscape FaceTime Camera
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I really hope you’re right. A notch would be terrible on the iPad ESPECIALLY in landscape.
It makes sense for the Pros to have a landscape camera, but I'm not sure the rest of them will.
Before anything new happened, there was always something else that happened.
This is the much more exciting iPad launch today. The Pro hardware has well surpassed what the software is capable of at this point so any additional features are hard to get overly excited about.
Not the people I know. When I think of everyone I know with an iPad, it's about a 75/25 split, with way more using it in portrait. It's more natural in portrait for non-techies. If you're used to using a computer, maybe you prefer landscape - but everyone else (which is, "normal" non-technical people) use portrait. It's more natural and easier to use when reading (and not just books, also web pages, etc.)
I edit 26MP and 40MP Raw camera files on mine, any speed increase is nice.
If they keep 2 front facing cameras and put it into a new form factor then I think they just found a reason to put the price up.
Needless to say the expectation has to be there for a camera on the iPad Pro models too but is there room in the current case configuration?
Needless to say the expectation has to be there for a camera on the iPad Pro models too but is there room in the current case configuration?
I’m glad they are not having a live event. I don’t know if I can sit through another demonstration of augmented reality that I will never use.
Would work well if they used a 10.5" display in the 11" iPad Air/Pro body shell, plenty large bezel to fit a camera in and peripherals would then make sense.
I'm in the same boat. I bought the M1 11 with the hopes that it's a 5 year device. The only reason I would changee is the for the XDR display. But then I wonder, if this 10 inch looks like the air, I wonder what purpose the Air will serve?
Landscape front camera will also mean landscape Apple logo and back text probably. So this would be one of the biggest changes to the iPad yet and aligns it more with MacBooks. It's also the preferred orientation and with Stage Manager coming to all iPads in the future, it makes sense. Chances are even the base iPad will get the 4 window Stage Manager.
But the software is different. Even with an A14 it can only do 4 Stage Manager apps and no external display, correct?
I don't know that the solution is to have a landscape camera. That merely makes the problem shift to the portrait side of things. What is the front facing camera were at a corner? I don't know that that is a great solution either, but there must be a better solution than shifting the camera to landscape or keeping the camera in portrait.
Just put a landscape AND portrait camera and be done with it !
I use mine in both orientations. Frequently when I'm using the iPad as an e-reader, it's in portrait mode, especially when it's not docked to the magic keyboard. I prefer to read e-books with the iPad undocked from the Magic Keyboard and in portrait mode. In fact, I think any time my iPad is not docked to the keyboard, it is used in portrait mode, otherwise it's in landscape.
Shifting the camera to landscape mode won't solve the problem for me. It merely makes the problem go to the "other side" of the iPad.
There’s always the $150 Combo Touch from Logitech that is, in my opinion, almost just as good as the Magic Keyboard.
