• BradleyEd03@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    A journaling app…doesn’t support…an iPad… I honestly can’t believe how much Apple clearly doesn’t care about the iPad. iPhones and Macs are receiving updates with lots of features and iPad just gets last years iOS features. I could maybe understand no Mac support, but no iPad support is wild.

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      1 year ago

      Clearly there is something cooking in the background for years now related to iPads, and thats why the neglect, its like thermal issues on latest intel macs before m1 dropped, they didnt care because they new its going to change. We just don’t know yet what it will be, but I personaly guess ipads will be axed and merged with macs, basically you would get an ipad pro but it would be running mac os, and be called a mac.

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        1 year ago

        My theory is that Apple, at some point, had a clear(er) vision for iPad development but once Vision Pro development began, they shifted resources to that. And now the iPad seems kinda directionless.

        And I know that many people theorize that Apple intends (or intended) to put macOS on iPad. But I disagree. I don’t think Apple would have put in all the work to build out iPadOS in all the ways they did if they intended to scrap it all and out macOS on it later (mouse support, external display support, multitasking, etc.).

        Instead I believe that Apple intends to build out iOS/iPadOS into a full desktop operating system and eventually make that available on your iPhone. Basically Samsung Dex but more functional. The iPad is almost there.

        Many people say this wouldn’t make sense because Apple would cannibalize Mac sales by doing this. But it actually has a couple advantages. iOS brings in App Store revenue unlike a Mac. And also we can’t assume that every customer currently has an iPhone and a Mac. Lots of people have an iPhone and a garbage $400 windows laptop. So it wouldn’t cannibalize a Mac sale in that case.

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          1 year ago

          You are forgetting that apart from the visuals, they are all the same OS. Apple intentionally disallows running macOS apps on iPads. There is no reason for iPadOS to not support them, or rather the apps not supporting iPadOS.

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        1 year ago

        Lol. Have you ever tried using a desktop Windows app on a Windows tablet touchscreen? Obviously not or you wouldn’t have written that.

        The problem isn’t getting the OS to run on the same hardware in a different form factor. The problem is decades of software written for keyboard/mouse and pixel-accuracy when touchscreens are for big fat fingers.

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      1 year ago

      No Mac support makes this a pointless app for me. I don’t like typing on my iPhone much, especially if I’m trying to type a journal entry. I was holding off getting day one for this so I can use this to make entries on my Mac, but still have it on my phone, I’ve been using the notes app, but it’s limited. They should wait until the app is ready for iPad, Mac and iOS, but it is what it is.

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      1 year ago

      The iPad’s biggest weakness has been its OS. To this day. Hardware always very solid, albeit “fragmented” with a ridiculous 3 pencil and connected keyboard ecosystem… but more or less solid.

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        1 year ago

        Seriously. Now that the rumored 12in MacBook is coming back it seems even more silly that my M2 iPad Pro can’t run MacOS or something close to it. If I could run desktop applications like Sketch on my iPad I would never bring my MacBook anywhere.

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          1 year ago

          If I could run desktop applications like Sketch on my iPad I would never bring my MacBook anywhere.

          That’s why they won’t upgrade the OS. They want you to own ALL the devices and be stuck in the ecosystem.

          It’s annoying because you hear “they don’t want to cannibalize MacBook sales”, but it doesnt work like that. The kind of person that wants a Surface Pro is different than the person that wants a dedicated laptop or tablet. But there aren’t enough Apple users that are that technologically inclined so here we are.

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      1 year ago

      It took them forever to make the lock screen feel like something other than a large iPhone. It’s crazy how underdeveloped the software feels.