All of the OSes are Darwin. They’re all using the XNU/mach kernel. They’re all the same OS under the hood with some different APIs and UIs exposed
Hell, technically they’re all really NeXTSTEP
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The iPad Just Got a Lot More Like a Mac Thanks to These 20+ New Features
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Hell, technically they’re all really NeXTSTEP
I‘ll excited about those features. Hope the work well. Love stagemanager on the mac but couldn‘t get familiar with it on iPad. Think the multitasking will do way better.
Touchback on screen mirroring would be nice. Writing on the tablet and/or on a connected board.
Touchback on screen mirroring would be nice. Writing on the tablet and/or on a connected board.
I had both. First of all, the air was 11.6”. And the aspect ratios were 16:9 and 16:10, respectively. The iPad is more like 16:11. The extra inch and wider aspect ratio make a noticeable difference.
My favorite change is that we get a normal cursor now instead of a circle.
Yes, App Store is beautiful and awesome. We all should worship this dimension where all credit cards are safe and free.
There is no extended display support on Ipad Mini. It seems as if the multitasking on the device is available to all compatible IPads including the Mini. However, extended display seems to be only available to devices that supported Stage Manager previously.
Are you just stating the obvious? No one said it was MacOS and the article used "Mac-like" a few times.
Maybe you're just concentrating on the negative comments. I've been reading through all the comments on the new iPadOS and the majority are positive with people being excited about them. Of all the updates announced today, iPad OS seems to have generated the most excitement. So "nothing but negative comments" is wholly incorrect.
I've always wanted the ability to use the phone on a BT headset and be playing music in the background to a BT speaker. As it is now, I have to use two phones to accomplish that.
Let me correct that for you, "Every year, Apple is making iPadOS like a locked down MacOS and . . . "
You're making quite a huge assumption considering this is Dev Beta 1 and the public release is months away.
"The cursor is now a true pointer, rather than a morphing circle."
It's the little things I love.
It's the little things I love.
It seems that apple’s system had the same root all along, yet they feel and look completely different. Fascinating I think.
I hear you but I'm not going to pack a Mac mini, Monitor, keyboard and mouse to take with me on a train journey or a plane. I'm really happy with this update I just don't understand why they are mimicking so much of macOS when they could just give us macOS?
They want the future to be with their more fully controlled (bu$ine$$ rea$on$) App distributions on iPadOS/iOS
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Based on these new features, any college students out there willing to way in on if this will allow them to replace their Mac with an iPad? I would be very interested in their perspective.....I have 3 kids in grad school, and they have both iPad and MacBooks. They tend to simply use the iPads for note taking and assigned reading plus as a secondary screen when traveling.
"Portable Mac" isn't a Mac mini, its a MacBook. Because they want to sell you a MacBook Air or Pro for that and thats not going to change.
I’m pretty sure it looks that way because the screenshot was on an iPad mini 7 in portrait. This is the same control in landscape.