dk001
macrumors demi-god
Think about how many people use a keyboard. When doing video do most use portrait or landscape?
Unless an app requires portrait mode, my IPP11 is in landscape. I usually use it with a Magic Keyboard.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra vs. Apple's iPad Pro
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Think about how many people use a keyboard. When doing video do most use portrait or landscape?
Unless an app requires portrait mode, my IPP11 is in landscape. I usually use it with a Magic Keyboard.
dk001
macrumors demi-god
Why would you use it in portrait mode? Curious as the only iPad I use in portrait is the mini. All others have been or are in landscape.
jimimac71
macrumors 6502a
I have a 10 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab A from 2019. Also have a refurbished 2019 iPad 10.2 inch.
I can hold the Samsung in portrait mode in one hand. Almost never use in landscape.
iPad is too fat.
I don't like Safari and use Chrome, Firefox or Opera. Love Opera for Android as it word wraps automatically. Safari will wrap if you enlarge the text, but reader mode sometimes does not work. All I get are titles.
Saving bookmarks is a piece of cake with Android browsers. Not so with iPad.
Battery life is better with iPad.
For me, Android is a more stand alone computing OS for me. Can transfer things to my tablet with a cable to my computer. Can't transfer audio to iPad without iTunes. Can't move pictures or video without iCloud.
So it is a matter of OS versus hardware, as someone else suggested. iPad OS is too dependent on another computer. I don't have a Mac. So I'm helpless without installing and logging into iTunes and iCloud for Windows.
I only use iTunes to trans-code audio as it totally rocks for the purpose. Completely insane for Apple to remove the app from the Mac.
Many apps for iPad OS are not as good as Android for me.
I will say, Samsung has made their products very expensive. Got mine for about $250 new.
Kind of looks like a tablet from Lenovo may have to be my next choice.
Yeah, had a bad experience with them already.
I can hold the Samsung in portrait mode in one hand. Almost never use in landscape.
iPad is too fat.
I don't like Safari and use Chrome, Firefox or Opera. Love Opera for Android as it word wraps automatically. Safari will wrap if you enlarge the text, but reader mode sometimes does not work. All I get are titles.
Saving bookmarks is a piece of cake with Android browsers. Not so with iPad.
Battery life is better with iPad.
For me, Android is a more stand alone computing OS for me. Can transfer things to my tablet with a cable to my computer. Can't transfer audio to iPad without iTunes. Can't move pictures or video without iCloud.
So it is a matter of OS versus hardware, as someone else suggested. iPad OS is too dependent on another computer. I don't have a Mac. So I'm helpless without installing and logging into iTunes and iCloud for Windows.
I only use iTunes to trans-code audio as it totally rocks for the purpose. Completely insane for Apple to remove the app from the Mac.
Many apps for iPad OS are not as good as Android for me.
I will say, Samsung has made their products very expensive. Got mine for about $250 new.
Kind of looks like a tablet from Lenovo may have to be my next choice.
Yeah, had a bad experience with them already.
As is with most of the ones here who bash it.
As a digital artist, I looooooove 16:9 (or 16:10). Perfect for keeping palettes and layer stacks open on the side, while maintaining a nice central drawing space. I own a 2018 iPad Pro, but I’m upgrading to a Samsung Tab Ultra (when it gets back in stock).
The extra space is a killer feature for me… as is the massive, glorious size that movies display in.
ackmondual
macrumors 68020
FWIW, we won't hear people disparaging iOS as much, but outside of this MR, you do get quite a few "that phone looks great, but, it's an iPhone".
That said, people are going about as if Apple opened that up to licensing, people would be lining up to buy Samsung tablets running iOS.
MacBH928
macrumors G3
Google employees will probably enjoy looking at your daily activities and keyboard clicks on that device
I wish I knew the answer to how many use a keyboard. My wife uses a keyboard on her iPad Pro but takes it out of the case and uses it in close-up portrait mode when FaceTiming someone. It seems some people like to have the tablet up close rather than sitting on a table. Also not everyone wants to pay for a $349 keyboard or the cheaper alternative. Maybe the only solution is for Apple to put two cameras on the tablet, one in portrait, one in landscape. That would make everybody happy, but it might raise the cost. I'd be all for that solution!
MacBH928
macrumors G3
If you use an iPad constantly in widescreen with keyboard, why not just get an Macbook Air?
I used to use the iPad in vertical position to browse the internet all the time and it was great until they moved from 9.7 to ridiculous 10.2 and not it feels like a small TV in the palm of your hands vertically.
I used to use the iPad in vertical position to browse the internet all the time and it was great until they moved from 9.7 to ridiculous 10.2 and not it feels like a small TV in the palm of your hands vertically.
True. iOS is my preferred platform, but I could nitpick hard on all its faults. The tired/exhausted argument of ‘Android is a problem’ doesn’t fly anymore. Those who refute that, will never be objective, they prefer to be closed minded, because they don’t know how to be open otherwise with no direct experience.
jimimac71
macrumors 6502a
I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine. Have for years. I sometimes have no choice but to use Chrome on my iPad. I don't feel unsafe on my Android tablet or safer on an iPad.
I also use Malwarebytes for Android.
Apple has my address and phone number. No choice. Forced into it when creating my Apple account for my old Mac.
Google has none of my personal information.
I think you should worry more about social media.
It's not much better, but the S8 Ultra is 16:10. I find 3:2 trip be a good compromise between 16:10 and 4:3. This error keep propagating from one previous post.
Portrait split screen on the S8 is pretty nice. It maximizes the available area for both apps. I usually use it for watching a football game or something while browsing the web on the bottom.
It's not much better, but the S8 Ultra is 16:10. My preference is actually 3:2 but would go 4:3 over 16:10 and absolutely refuse 16:9.
S8 Ultra is 16:10.
I believe MicroLED is still some time away. The next step is QD-OLED from Samsung Display. This is already used on the new Sony flagship TV.I think I messed up the LED panel types - microLED would be the place Apple want to get to in the near future, and I apparently made up nanoLED ?
OLED is great, but it's just a pit stop to microLED. The next few years are going to be amazing for display technologies.
dk001
macrumors demi-god
Touchscreen.
My MBP is the ONLY device I have without a touchscreen. Now if that MBA had a touchscreen ....
NinjaHERO
macrumors 6502a
Yeah, I was shocked anyone said they use it in portrait mode. Especially the 12.9. I've never seen someone do that. Also, every single bit of marketing material Apple has used for years mostly shows people holding them landscape. Every keyboard accessory and cover stand work in landscape. I just find it odd that landscape wouldn't be the primary use mode for everyone.
Marshall73
macrumors 68030
I did, it’s on the daily express website, it was the first of dozens I could have picked regarding the same Android malware.
Jean Claude
macrumors member
People arguing the 4x3 vs 16x9 is better on a tablet need to have their head examined ... the 4x3 is sooooo dated, and just makes very little sense for media consumption and productivity (which is what most use these size tablets for anyway).
You hang out it an odd group of people. Way too judgmental.