Everyone is complaining about the home screen. What is so terrible about the home screen?
What should the home screen look like if it was on your wish list?
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Everyone is complaining about the home screen. What is so terrible about the home screen?
What should the home screen look like if it was on your wish list?
I think people want a more dynamic home screen with more widgets and direct access to files.
What are you using the iPad for that you find so lacking?
The basic iPad a lot of people use it for e-mail, internet, netflix, social media, basic note taking, basic gaming and basic office work.
What are you trying do that so lacking?
If you are hoping for a full browser app like a desktop FireFox app that will not happen as 90% people that own iPads have less than 3GB of RAM.
I'm sure widgets will come as why have it for iOS but not iPadOS that makes no sense.
But making folders on the home screen? I don’t think Android does that.
It's been the same home screen since at least IOS 7. One thing they can improve is utilizing space better.
The iPad is not powerful enough for doing any programming with out getting the iPad pro. And Apple is not going to give you a feature in iPadOS that would crash most iPads people own. So no programming coming for iPadOS that would crash most people iPad.
I’m not sure 95% of people wanting a terminal or command line.What you must do in terminal you cannot do touch?
What do you want to be able to make folders or app shortcuts on the home screen? You want more windows 10 like desktop home screen?
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I think I just want it less restrictive than it is, but then that's pretty much Android. I mean the put in Widgets, but even the smallest widget is a little big. I also would love interactive widgets because the current format makes the widgets seem a little senseless.
Remember, though, that the “replacement for the trash can Mac” crew did it, too! To the tune one one $6,000 system
Example: I want to add a contact to an existing Contact group. Cant do on iPadOS.
It’s awesome now you can only charge from one single port of your left hand side. USB-C charging anywhere was sooo dumb /s
Who is to say that Apple will take USB-C charging away, if/when they add an alternative?
I hope got any feature for the M1 iPad that makes it more attractive for me as a DevOps engineer.
since I’m in DevOps, I can find ways to use the iPad as a development machine.
but now that Docker can run on M1, I wonder if there is some way to bring it in some form to the iPad. But I think that will be a distant dream.
since I’m in DevOps, I can find ways to use the iPad as a development machine.
but now that Docker can run on M1, I wonder if there is some way to bring it in some form to the iPad. But I think that will be a distant dream.
Android allows you to move the app any where you want on the home screen!!
Well apple does not allow you to do this. Apple does not want you to move the apps around.
But not sure if this is a feature most want.
I don’t think android allows you to make folders on the home screen.
Android also has app library at the button where you can remove all the apps from the home screen but the apps you use the most. Where you bring up the app library to see all the apps you have installed. And bring up the app you don’t use most often from the app library. Making the home screen look clean and only the apps you use.
But again not sure if most people really want an app library.
And android does have similar thing that looks similar to dock like thing at the bottom where 3 or 4 apps always sit there.
I mean really what else is iOS or android going to use a taskbar or windows 8 mentro interface. Is that want people here want?
So there not much I can see changed other than people bored with the way the icons and themes look.
May be people want Apple to make flat icons that look similar to Android where all the android icons are really flat looking now than showing a sort of 3D icon look apple use. Well not as 3D look as first iOS icons but no where as flat as android icons now.
Or you want rounded icons like android?
Thats what a few people are posting they want. It’s not, IMHO, what most people want. Check other threads on product line refreshes. There are always posters with wishlists of ‘I want A, I want B, I want C….’. It may be good for them to have it but for many it’s not relevant (folders on Home Screen? Better widget control? Not relevant for me).
And Apple and Android are for profit corporations (see their quarterlies for Q1 to confirm that). Tangible market success is check box 1. Undoubtedly some nice product offerings never get to check box 2 because they fail the first check box test.
It's weird, but more people like the touch bar according to this poll. Maybe that's why Apple got rid of it.
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What do I want from iPadOS? Large recent apps widget and App Library. The two things I use daily on my iPhone that were introduced in ios14. Easy.
There will be no new Macbook Pros. August/September event for the new MBPs.
Would the store have gone down by now, given that we're eight hours and ten minutes until the keynote? I'd imagine that this will dictate whether or not we see hardware announcements.