To those who reviewed the new iPads and concluded that the hardware is great but iPadOS is the limiting factor: it is becoming tiring. The iPad is not and probably will never be a Mac. If you wanted utter flexibility, it’s the Mac. Why is it so hard? Can you just move on to something else? Thanks.
@numericcitizen But, it could be. That is why they keep writing that. The iPad Pro could be a Mac if Apple decided to do that. There is nothing other than Apple stopping it from happening. MacOS and iPadOS run on the same chip that are in both the iPad Pro and MacBooks. Utter flexibility would be an iPadPro that ran BOTH MacOS (when it was in keyboard mode) and iPadOS when it was not docked in a keyboard. The potential is there. If the potential is there, people will write about not living up to the potential.
@numericcitizen I absolutely agree. There have been times when this narrative has made sense such as when Apple touts that this could/should replace your computer, but when it’s such a creative focused session, focus on those use cases. Now, I have heard a good critique in that line. Someone pointed out that if you put Logic Pro 2 in the background while it’s doing a heavy processing task, it will get killed, even if you go right back to it. That’s a worthy limit to complain about IMO, but one focused on the uses being promoted.
@ChrisJWilson @numericcitizen that Logic Pro point is very real. And to a lesser level what made me drop using my iPad for many things. You are happy playing a game. Remember about adding something to Things and when you are back to the game, it was terminated. So you have to start back from a previous save. I’ve also lost photo edits like this and some drawings. So I just avoid iPads. Maybe it’s better managed nowadays. But I wont commit a lot of money to try it. The Mac never does that.
@pcora @ChrisJWilson @joelhamill @numericcitizen while I agree macs/iPads have their individual strengths and sometimes people expect too much and should use the other one, I found myself agreeing with a lot of the iPad OS criticisms here www.macstories.net/stories/n... it would be great if the OS could do things that let one make the most of the incredible hardware.
@pcora I’ve never had anything that bad but I understand why it put the fear of god in you! My 2018 iPad rarely hits a memory purge issue like that even if I’m writing or making a big sketch in procreate. And the auto saving has helped when an app (procreate) has crashed mid drawing for some reason. I’m not saying it’s perfect nor that it works every time, but it’s not been too much of an issue for me.
@numericcitizen Apple keeps throwing more power at a device that can’t utilize it. I think that is why folks keep hammering it’s limits. And it does have some ridiculous OS limits for such a powerful device.
@numericcitizen sitting with the same opinion… but (as others allude to), the iPad isn’t the same shape of device. I’m using the term contemplative computing to describe tablets and some use of software in the tools-for-thought space (versus consumption computing, productivity computing, mobile computing, and spatial computing). I’d argue, such a focus would be major help to both tech media, and Apple
