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Nah Apple takes advantage of their walled off system. They know they have users and changing to an alternative is too difficult.
by 76543210 7y ago
Nah Apple takes advantage of their walled off system. They know they have users and changing to an alternative is too difficult.
- saagarjha 7y agoYou can use any Bluetooth keyboard with it.
- jkestner 7y agoAnd I’ll bet my Bluetooth trackpad works with this now too.
- evilduck 7y agoStandard bluetooth mice already work, they've just buried mouse/trackpad support under the accessibility settings in iOS13.
- dunnevens 7y agoIt probably does. I have a $20 no-name Bluetooth KB + Trackpad. It works perfectly with the current iPadOS.
- jkestner 7y agoTo follow up, yes, it does. But because iPadOS doesn’t support all the swipe gestures on my first generation Magic Trackpad that my Mac does—notably scrolling—I’m disconnecting it. If I’m going to have to touch the screen to scroll, why have the cursor?
- braythwayt 7y agoIt is not my experience that keyboards are part of their garden wall. I have used bluetooth keyboards with my iPads going back to the first generation of iPad Mini. What their keyboards do offer is tighter integration. That’s not a wall, it’s more like growing enticing apples in the orchard within the garden. Not much different than the situation with upgrades for my Volvo. The Volvo stuff is tightly integrated. OEM stuff sometimes involves compromises, like plugging things into the port and fiddling with bluetooth.
- ogre_codes 7y agoI'm not sure what you're getting at here, bluetooth & USB keyboards all work fine. I've used aftermarket keyboards exclusively for the past... 6 or so years on the iPad.