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Rumor Claims iPad Pro With Horizontal Cameras and Landscape Apple Logo in the Works
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The merger between macOS and iPadOS is almost complete! the M1 chip in iPad and native Apple Silicon apps were the first step.
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I HIGHLY doubt Apple is going to make fundamental changes to the iPad at this point.
The iPad is a tablet that can be "laptopped" when appropriate.
That means the cameras will stay where they are, the filesystem will remain as-is (with minor improvements) and that logo will not change.
MacOS fans that want a tablet Mac are SOL, and will continue to be so. No amount of griping will change that.
So learn to love iPadOS like I have fellas, 'cause (in Randy "Macho Man" Savage voice): "It ain't going nowhere."
I'll believe this rumor when I see it.
The iPad is a tablet that can be "laptopped" when appropriate.
That means the cameras will stay where they are, the filesystem will remain as-is (with minor improvements) and that logo will not change.
MacOS fans that want a tablet Mac are SOL, and will continue to be so. No amount of griping will change that.
So learn to love iPadOS like I have fellas, 'cause (in Randy "Macho Man" Savage voice): "It ain't going nowhere."
I'll believe this rumor when I see it.
Yes please, having the front camera on the side is so awkward in video calls.
I pretty much only use my iPad Pro 12.9 in portrait. Been doing that for years.
Yes, one of the biggest problems with iPadOS is the lack of true windows. That’s a major feature that would significantly improve iPadOS functionality. Instead of only having the ability to run 3 apps at once, why not allow virtually unlimited since the iPad Pros now have the same processing and RAM power of the M1 Macs.
Yep and the Magic Keyboard has solidified that for me.
Glass would be an absolutely horrible thing to put on the back of an iPad. They'd be breaking and cracking left right and centre.
Uh, according to Apple’s marketing it is? They said it, not me.
I don’t know anyone, including my elderly parents, who is baffled by file management.
Why? I pretty much always hold my iPad in portrait ... just feels more natural in the hand. If I'm watching something, I'll turn it, but the form follows the function, as it should be. One of the best parts of the iPad was always the ambiquitous nature with which you could use it. Trying to "force"' a user experience is the very definition of bad design.
Well i'm glad your anecdotal evidence of you and your elderly parents is all you need - I can counter that my elderey parents and my young girlfriend are both completely baffled by it. So we're even though.
I also think you'll find the multi billion pound tech company with more market research than you could imagine tends to know a lot more than either of us and it's been talked about A LOT with UX that file management is one of the most unintuitive things a new computer user has to manage - and this is coming from someone that loves it, I could never give up my Mac, but I understand why Apple are doing it.
That does it, I am finally going to turn in my Galaxy Tab running Android Cocoa Krispies for this new level of awesomeness.
I do find it interesting how so many people here on these forums want the iPads to become Macs. I wonder to what extent this thinking extends to the general population, or if it just a vocal minority (which is what I suspect).
The analogy I make to this desire to take something new and give it old traits is what we’re seeing in new electric vehicles from legacy auto makers vs new electric-only manufacturers. Whether it’s the general shape of a vehicle or the packaging of components, legacy makers are mostly sticking to designs that look and perform more like a conventional internal combustion vehicles, because that is the safe way to move forward, or at least that is how they’re seeing the path ahead.
And it’s clearly an easier thing to design new products to do and act like old products - just look at Microsoft putting themselves in the position of needing to design all new software to work with their decades old software, instead of forcing people and companies to move forward.
The same is true with the iPad for Apple. They’ve created a line of devices that performance-wise can be indistinguishable from a laptop computer, and because of that, some people want their iPad to work EXACTLY like a laptop. From where we were just a few years ago, it’s clear that Apple is trying to push ahead and add in many computer-legacy things to the iPad line, especially the iPad Pro’s.
The comparison between iPadOS and MacOS reminds me of something an engineer colleague told me way back in the ’90’s, as we were discussing the pros and cons between Apple computers and Microsoft based PC’s. He was quick to point out that both an Apple and a PC effectively can do the exact same thing, with the main difference being the visual interface between computer and human. The same sort of difference exists with iPadOS compared to MacOS and I can’t see Apple making iPads Macs anytime soon, though I didn’t expect them to make Macs be able to run iPhone apps either, so who knows who is going to win out in this “battle”.
The analogy I make to this desire to take something new and give it old traits is what we’re seeing in new electric vehicles from legacy auto makers vs new electric-only manufacturers. Whether it’s the general shape of a vehicle or the packaging of components, legacy makers are mostly sticking to designs that look and perform more like a conventional internal combustion vehicles, because that is the safe way to move forward, or at least that is how they’re seeing the path ahead.
And it’s clearly an easier thing to design new products to do and act like old products - just look at Microsoft putting themselves in the position of needing to design all new software to work with their decades old software, instead of forcing people and companies to move forward.
The same is true with the iPad for Apple. They’ve created a line of devices that performance-wise can be indistinguishable from a laptop computer, and because of that, some people want their iPad to work EXACTLY like a laptop. From where we were just a few years ago, it’s clear that Apple is trying to push ahead and add in many computer-legacy things to the iPad line, especially the iPad Pro’s.
The comparison between iPadOS and MacOS reminds me of something an engineer colleague told me way back in the ’90’s, as we were discussing the pros and cons between Apple computers and Microsoft based PC’s. He was quick to point out that both an Apple and a PC effectively can do the exact same thing, with the main difference being the visual interface between computer and human. The same sort of difference exists with iPadOS compared to MacOS and I can’t see Apple making iPads Macs anytime soon, though I didn’t expect them to make Macs be able to run iPhone apps either, so who knows who is going to win out in this “battle”.
Me too (apart from when using the magic kb obv). Much easier to hold and feels more natural for reading.
Perhaps this supposed 'push towards landscape' explains the nonsense iOS15 home screen layout where you can only fit 4 apps in a row if using widgets (leaving absurd borders on each side of the screen).
Just make the iPad more capable please. I can’t even create or edit smart playlists on my 2020 12.9 iPad Pro.
Oh and please where’s the weather app. Don’t tell me Apple hasn’t figured it out, and still is waiting to perfect it after 11 yrs. Apple has released plenty of mediocre stock apps over the years. Such BS listening to the reason for the hold up.
Oh and please where’s the weather app. Don’t tell me Apple hasn’t figured it out, and still is waiting to perfect it after 11 yrs. Apple has released plenty of mediocre stock apps over the years. Such BS listening to the reason for the hold up.
I use my iPad in landscape like 99.99% of the time. I would really like them to move the Face ID camera as well. My hand is covering that stupid camera about every time it needs to see me.
The only way to stop morons from shooting portrait videos 
is to put a square sensor in the camera and then crop it to landscape regardless of how the device is held.
is to put a square sensor in the camera and then crop it to landscape regardless of how the device is held.