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abraham linksys posted:if I get a USB charger beefier than this 12W one the iPad 10.2 comes with, will it charge faster? i've been spoiled by USB-C and don't expect miracles but it seems like this thing takes 6+ hours to charge while in use, and of course the Lightning cable that comes with it is like 3 feet long so I can't easily keep it plugged in while using it. it also charges hilariously slow when plugged into my Macbook with a USB A->C adapter, to the point I'm surprised it even bothers showing the charge icon (and, to be fair, I get that tablet batteries are way bigger than phones and this is basically like if you plugged a laptop into another laptop to charge) You can just play Apple Arcade games straight on your MacBook, which also should work ootb with your DualShock 4/Xbone controller. I think it saves your progress between devices too. I’m pretty sure Safari’s still the better browser but that’s entirely apple’s intentional doing with their WebKit licensing.
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Ok Comboomer posted:You can just play Apple Arcade games straight on your MacBook, which also should work ootb with your DualShock 4/Xbone controller. I suppose it says a lot about the state of Mac gaming that at no point in the last year did I ever hear a single person mention that Apple Arcade works on Mac I guess it's new with Catalina, so maybe it's my fault for not upgrading yet, but eesh. Does it only have games that opted into a Mac release? also my big problem with Firefox is that they built this separate Firefox Focus app that has adblocking built in, and you can configure Firefox Focus as a content blocker for Safari so Safari has ads blocked, but I can not find anyway to use adblocking in the actual Firefox app. I lived without adblock on mobile but now that I'm seeing desktop sites with way bigger ads on iPad it's way more annoying abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 22:02 on May 26, 2020 |
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abraham linksys posted:if I get a USB charger beefier than this 12W one the iPad 10.2 comes with, will it charge faster? i've been spoiled by USB-C and don't expect miracles but it seems like this thing takes 6+ hours to charge while in use, and of course the Lightning cable that comes with it is like 3 feet long so I can't easily keep it plugged in while using it. it also charges hilariously slow when plugged into my Macbook with a USB A->C adapter, to the point I'm surprised it even bothers showing the charge icon (and, to be fair, I get that tablet batteries are way bigger than phones and this is basically like if you plugged a laptop into another laptop to charge) The 2019 iPad charges at up to 30W and you will see a huge difference. I use a RAVPower 30W USB-C PD charger and it charges my 10.5" iPad Pro in no time. https://amazon.com/dp/B07GNHJN9H/ Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 22:13 on May 26, 2020 |
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abraham linksys posted:if I get a USB charger beefier than this 12W one the iPad 10.2 comes with, will it charge faster? i've been spoiled by USB-C and don't expect miracles but it seems like this thing takes 6+ hours to charge while in use, and of course the Lightning cable that comes with it is like 3 feet long so I can't easily keep it plugged in while using it. it also charges hilariously slow when plugged into my Macbook with a USB A->C adapter, to the point I'm surprised it even bothers showing the charge icon (and, to be fair, I get that tablet batteries are way bigger than phones and this is basically like if you plugged a laptop into another laptop to charge) Yes. For example, I bought this one last year (which is overkill) and it'll fully charge the 12.9 pro in a couple of hours
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:The 2019 iPad charges at up to 30W and you will see a huge difference. I use a RAVPower 30W USB-C PD charger and it charges my 10.5" iPad Pro in no time. https://amazon.com/dp/B07GNHJN9H/ well, I assume the 10.2 iPad isn't going to support USB-C PD because the 10.2 iPad is... not USB-C? or is it able to do fast charges via a USB-C to lightning cable? the cable/adapter that ships with the iPad 10.2 is lightning to USB-A, because of course it is, so I also have to factor in another $20 for lightning to USB-C
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SlowBloke posted:You are off your rocker, the biggest ipad markets are education, point of sale and media consumption(all running on the lowest end ipad/ipad mini) where being thin is actually detrimental(as you will need to fit them in a shock/child/manchild proof case anyway, so who cares about cutting one extra millimeter) and cost is king. Clueless c-level that need an all apple ecosystem from iphone to apple chair wheels are a drop in the ocean. Man everyone who responded negatively to my post seemed to miss that I was talking about iPad Pros specifically, not all iPads. Context matters, we were talking about the Pros at the time. Personally I get the feeling that most people rocking a current-gen Pro have iPhones, and frankly, probably pretty good ones, hence why I don't think those users need a camera on their tablet. That space could be used to remove the bump, provide more battery, whatever they wanted, and it would significantly decrease material cost. Like, even if you do have a current gen Pro, and even if you love your ipad camera (btw I'm interested in who you are if you are this person) do you want to pay for that camera when your phone has a better, constantly improving camera gen over gen, and is usually right by you? I honestly don't get why this is even controversial. You replace your iPad Pro, what, every 3-5 years, maybe? The iPad camera is going to lag behind compared to just the iPhone 12 camera, let alone next year's camera and so forth. It's like Carplay- it uses your phone, so it always has the best features. If Carplay was a module you just inserted into the car, it would suck in like 4 seconds compared to everything on the market. That's why if you're a Pro-level Apple user, and have a thousand dollar iPad Pro, maybe its ok to assume you have an iphone too, and hey, maybe even that you upgrade that iphone every 2-3 years, so maybe just use the better, upgradeable camera you keep in your pocket instead of the tablet camera you won't replace until 2025. I'm not even saying that the camera-free model has to be the only one, just give us the option. Except, I'm guessing if they released a cheaper model without a camera, so few people would buy the camera version it would be gone in a couple of generations. The cheap iPads can keep their camera, it makes way more sense there. But if the camera on my iPad Pro fell off tomorrow, I wouldn't give a single poo poo. And as for the Edu/Corp argument, these people aren't furnishing Pros in the vast majority of cases, so it's unimportant to the overall debate. Taima fucked around with this message at 22:40 on May 26, 2020 |
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Taima posted:But if the camera on my iPad Pro fell off tomorrow, I wouldn't give a single poo poo. This sentence has always been said by people that never experienced an ipad 1. The lack of cameras cripple the device to a overglorified kindle/archos, jumping from a ipad 1 to ipad2 was night/day.
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SlowBloke posted:This sentence has always been said by people that never experienced an ipad 1. The lack of cameras cripple the device to a overglorified kindle/archos, jumping from a ipad 1 to ipad2 was night/day. Front facing yes. Rear one? Lol absolutely not.
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MarcusSA posted:Front facing yes. Rear one? Lol absolutely not. A good number of ipad as a point of sale systems rely on the rear camera for qr/barcode scans...doing selfies on a ipad to scan codes would be awful
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the nice thing about the tablet fad completely dissipating is that the scourge of idiots at concerts holding up tablets to take videos has been vanquished. with this being the case i suspect most people really don't need a rear facing camera on their tablet anymore of course now it's idiots holding up 6.6" phones that are just annoying, but still
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# ? May 26, 2020 22:53 |
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I appreciate the bigger viewfinder when scanning stuff on the iPad
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SlowBloke posted:A good number of ipad as a point of sale systems rely on the rear camera for qr/barcode scans...doing selfies on a ipad to scan codes would be awful POS systems aren't buying iPads Pro. But also the top of the line model lacking a feature the rest have would be silly.
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abraham linksys posted:I dunno if I can then like AirPlay from my iPad to my Macbook so I can play it on a larger monitor? I assume this would not support Chromecast for playing on a TV, and no I will not buy an Apple TV New page and all but if you’re still interested in this functionality, I used to use a program on my MBP called Airserver that lets you mirror/airplay an iPhone or iPad to the MacBook screen. They offer a 30 free trial period also (15 bucks one-off after).
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Endless Mike posted:iPads Pro Nice
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Taima posted:Man everyone who responded negatively to my post seemed to miss that I was talking about iPad Pros specifically, not all iPads. Context matters, we were talking about the Pros at the time. Yeah but.. having a "Pro" product missing a huge feature in the cheaper products seems .. backwards?And irritating. I took a pic this weekend of my girlfriend's cat poking its head out of a cat tube with my iPad Pro that never would have been captured if I had to leave the area and find my iPhone in the next room, fumble with two devices and take the photo. I think you're making a couple assumptions here that aren't true in some important use cases. - The iPhone is always with you. It's not. Some people do set it down and use the iPad far enough away from it that it's cumbersome to find and use the phone. Sometimes a photo or document just needs to be scanned. If the camera's slightly worse than the iPhone, so be it. - Using one device to initiate a photo taken on another device is a seamless experience. No way. Can you imagine trying to do this more than once: initiating a camera mode in the iPad, putting it down, picking up the iPhone, selecting some kind of AirPlay-like option to beam the camera over to the iPad and then taking a photo. Yikes. You would just use the iPhone at that point, which makes a feature like that completely meaningless. Also, using the rear camera during FaceTime or Zoom or whatever meetings to show what you're looking at can be helpful. Similarly, this is a great point: hatty posted:I appreciate the bigger viewfinder when scanning stuff on the iPad I scanned some old photos and documents in and this was so nice. It let me get a better idea of how the scans were going to turn out/were blurry/etc.
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“iPad Pros shouldn’t have cameras.” 2 pages of pretty straight forward answers as to why that’s a bad idea. “No really guys, having a camera on an iPad Pro is a bad idea. I’m gonna double down on my statement against all odds.”
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Duckman2008 posted:“iPad Pros shouldn’t have cameras.” Do you think this type of comment makes you smart or interesting? I was, and am, happy to have an interesting debate about it, in my spare time, because we're just idiots on a paid internet forum. gently caress off. Last Chance posted:- Using one device to initiate a photo taken on another device is a seamless experience. If having an iPhone was assumed, Apple would have wide leeway to make it much more simple than you're imagining. Jose Oquendo posted:Folks, I wouldn't bother engaging Taima in any sort of discussion. This is the user who thought it was ok to continue using an Apple Watch with a bulging battery. Man I don't even know how to respond to this except to make a broader point that if having an opinion you don't like means I can no longer discuss anything, I guess we're in a pretty bad place as a forum that ostensibly exists to facilitate discussion. I'm sorry that my opinion got you so upset that you're going into other threads to shut people down. Taima fucked around with this message at 00:07 on May 27, 2020 |
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Folks, I wouldn't bother engaging Taima in any sort of discussion. This is the user who thought it was ok to continue using an Apple Watch with a bulging battery.Taima posted:So I have a weird rear end question. They refuse to believe this is a bad idea because there's no documented cases of an Apple Watch specifically causing a danger due to a bulging battery. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Taima posted:If having an iPhone was assumed, Apple would have wide leeway to make it much more simple than you're imagining. That's true, I suppose. There could be a more seamless/automatic way to do it in software, but at the end of the day you're still juggling two physical devices to take one picture and that's a poor experience.
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Taima posted:Do you think this type of comment makes you smart or interesting? I was, and am, happy to have an interesting debate about it, in my spare time, because we're just idiots on a paid internet forum. gently caress off. Doesn’t make me smart or interesting , but I did think it was funny. That said , yeah we are all idiots on a paid Internet forum, so if that cut too deep, my apologies sir.
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imagine hating a camera bump that much that you want it ripped out of all ipads in the most expensive product tier instead of just getting a case or something
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Before you can comment on the camera bump or the screen notch you need to post a list of what successful products you have designed and how many have been sold worldwide.
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FCKGW posted:imagine hating a camera bump that much that you want it ripped out of all ipads in the most expensive product tier instead of just getting a case or something I get not caring about the camera bump, but imagine arguing physics says it’s necessary lol. Also, if you want to eradicate the bump, that removing the camera makes more sense than increasing the width of the thing to make it flush and add like 50% to the battery size.
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The whole “need X to use Y” thing with Apple is an odd point to make/ask for when Apple has spent the last five years moving in the complete opposite direction. At the start you needed iTunes (PC) to do anything with the iPhone. Eventually we moved to OTA updates and with iCloud the iPhone is now a fairly independent device. The Apple Watch required an iPhone to function. With celular and watchOS 4 I believe they can now function Without ever needing a phone. Hell, I think the last watchOS made the watch App Store a watch app so you don’t even need a phone to get new poo poo. iPads are moving away from iOS itself with iPadOS, mouse support, and kinda become this bridge between laptop and tablet. They’re not there yet but it is very clearly moving in a direction where iPads will be their own thing in a couple of years.
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Duckman2008 posted:“against all odds” Well take a look at me now. There’s just an empty space. There should be a camera here That can sense IR To take photos of my face.
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Ok Comboomer posted:Well take a look at me now. As a lifelong unironic Phil Collins fan I heartily enjoyed this.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The whole “need X to use Y” thing with Apple is an odd point to make/ask for when Apple has spent the last five years moving in the complete opposite direction. I think it was in the iOS 13.5 beta but was pulled (I think we'll see it in 14) but they have an internet recovery mode like MacOS to do iOS reinstalls now. So you really won't ever have to connect the phone to a computer. Once they bring this feature to Watch OS, they could drop the phone requirement for those as well.
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will say i actually laughed out loud when i plugged my ipad into my mac for the first time and itunes opened automatically easy to turn off but what a strangely anachronistic thing in 2020. who is using desktop itunes sync? why does any of that functionality still exist in desktop itunes? even the actual music management part seems odd when they could just move it all to the cloud now (which i guess they did with itunes match, but even that's weird since they might as well just do direct mp3 uploads at this point, space is cheap)
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Well only people using older Mac OS since iTunes is gone and replaced by Finder for syncing and more importantly updating and restoring any iPhone or iPad
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abraham linksys posted:will say i actually laughed out loud when i plugged my ipad into my mac for the first time and itunes opened automatically You can disable that so nothing pops up. On MacOS some things are managed in the Music app, others in finder. And iTunes Match does do mp3 uploads. If your library has a song that iTunes doesn't have a match for, it uploads your file to the cloud so you can access it. You're right in that syncing stuff with iTunes is not always necessary and uncommon these days, but there's still legit reasons to do so.
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Need a way to sync my custom ringtones! Not that I've used calling on iPad in forever cause it’s still(?) a full screen modal alert that interrupts everything when someone calls.
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FCKGW posted:imagine hating a camera bump that much that you want it ripped out of all ipads in the most expensive product tier instead of just getting a case or something Having to put a case on an iPad is even stupider than the mandatory phone case situation we have now.
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You don’t have to put a case on it, you can always just ignore the bump.
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Some of you are really irrationally mad about a camera bump iPad Pro keyboard case will fix that problem for you I’m sure you’ll find something else to complain about though
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MrBond posted:Some of you are really irrationally mad about a camera bump Yeah, like the fact that it isn’t rendered useless when my iPhone isn’t in hand
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FCKGW posted:You don’t have to put a case on it, you can always just ignore the bump. Using a apple pencil with a naked ipad pro is annoying as it will be wobbly... That's my main crux with ipad pros, every now and then i keep my ipad naked (esp in the summer to slightly improve thermals) and having to get some spacers on the ipad to properly jot down stuff is some next gen cargo cult
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japtor posted:Need a way to sync my custom ringtones! I haven't done it on any of my devices in years but is that still a thing with iCloud Music Library on? Drag and drop is kind of hosed, so is there a way with the latest iOS/iTunes/Finder?
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SlowBloke posted:Using a apple pencil with a naked ipad pro is annoying as it will be wobbly... That's my main crux with ipad pros, every now and then i keep my ipad naked (esp in the summer to slightly improve thermals) and having to get some spacers on the ipad to properly jot down stuff is some next gen cargo cult Apple should sell a pack of 3 stick-on bumpers so one can use their iPad on a flat surface.
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In many ways I think the argument shows a lack of imagination on the part of some people. "I can't think of a reason why someone would want a camera in an iPad Pro" is not the same thing as "There is no need for cameras on the iPad Pro." I use my camera on the pro all the damned time while at home and I'd be super annoyed if it were gone. Additionally I can imagine that eventually Xcode will be running on it natively and it'll be a useful test bed. It already seems like Apple is positioning it as an interesting suggestion for mounting on a tripod for picturing/movie-ing.
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Ok Comboomer posted:Well take a look at me now.
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