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I recently wrote an article that had a pretty negative tone, which was only partially intended. Some people took this as me giving the iPad a well-deserved thrashing, and that wasn't really my intent. The iPad is Awesome I use a 2021 11" iPad Pro daily, and it's the best
For many years I've argued that macOS and iPadOS should remain separate, and that you don't solve the iPad's problems by just throwing macOS on there. I believed, and still believe, that the touch-first operating system with additional user protections, ease-of-use, and accessibility advantages was valuable for millions of people.
If you wanted to see hands-on with all the new stuff in iPadOS 16, Chris Lawley has you covered.
Let's talk about Stage Manager for the iPad real quick*. I've been talking to a bunch of people in recent days about the feature, and I wrote about it on TechRadar and here on this blog. My opinion on the feature itself is that it's got a lot of potential,
Craig Federighi talking to Matthew Panzarino: “It’s only the M1 iPads that combined the high DRAM capacity with very high capacity, high performance NAND that allows our virtual memory swap to be super fast,” Federighi says. “Now that we’re letting you have up to four apps on a
Just over 2 months ago I made this video where I proposed something called studioOS that was exclusive to the Pro iPads and allowed them to run more apps at the same time in a fully-windowed environment. Here's the very quick mock up I threw together for it: So you
Mark Gurman has a new report out about advanced multitasking features coming in iPadOS 16, and while many in my feeds are happy about this, there is also some trepidation. Rene Ritchie, for example, expressed nervousness about this report, saying: We go over this same thing every year: 1. Rumors
There was a lot of good stuff in iPadOS 15 announced at WWDC last week. Hell, I’m running it on the iPad I’m using to write this post, and it’s made my iPad meaningfully better in some key ways. And yet there is a sense of disappointment
In my mind, “multitasking” in computers is the ability for the user to actively work on several things at the same time. Then there’s “parallelism,” which I think of as multitasking+. Yes, it’s partially me working on different things, but also the ability to me to tell my
Yesterday we got word that the new iPad Pros are not compatible with the Magic Keyboard that released almost exactly a year ago today. Let’s talk about it. Why the Change? While Apple didn’t give a reason for the change in compatibility, we can look at the differences
With my recent purchase of a MacBook Air, I now have two 13” computers in my life, the MacBook Air and iPad Pro (2018). What I find really interesting is that while my iPad Pro feels almost too expansive sometimes, the MacBook Air feels very cramped by comparison. Why is
If you’ve gone a few days without hearing someone say the iPad “just isn’t there yet” to be a real computer, just wait a second, someone’s sure to say it anytime now. I write this, of course, from my iPad Pro. I bought this computer at the
I've been using the Magic Keyboard everyday since it came out and I wanted to do a follow up review on what I thought of it after the initial hype wore off.
After listening to the most recent episode of The Talk Show, I'm not really sure what the argument about iPads not being general purpose computers even means. It sounds to me like we're debating a technicality but don't actually disagree on the outcome.
The Magic Keyboard for iPad came out in April this year and I’ve been using it everyday. I know some people said it was more of a dock than a case, but I use it exactly the same as I did my Smart Keyboard Folio, it lives on the