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iPad 12.9“ 2020 review (A PC user’s perspective)

12 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago

A_No_Name_Mouse 6y ago
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akkawwakka 6y ago
Apple has done a nice job of adding a lot of power user functionality to iPadOS, and iOS in general, but discoverability remains a huge challenge. Multitasking is a kludgy set of gestures and dragging things around. There aren’t great affordances that help less sophisticated users understand the system. The only chance a new user has to discover the new obtuse gesture-based cut, copy, and paste system is a single dialog, shown once, that you are liable to accidentally dismiss. Oh, and don’t forget shake to undo. Seems that one thing Apple could do to help is offer a truly interactive user guide, manual, or tutorial like those we used to learn how mice worked in the 90s (“Mouse Practice”) [1]. Hey, maybe even add it to Tips.app. (Personally, for me, I’ve gone from an iPad productivity skeptic, to preferring using the iPad Pro w/Magic Keyboard for any computing task short of programming.) [1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlFnGgZHPzY https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlFnGgZHPzY
- michaelbrooks 6y ago
  I was a huge Apple skeptic before the iPhone 11, and decided to give the Pro a go. Much like yourself, I now use it for most of my productivity tasks. All of my blog posts are now mostly written on the iPad, and I love the pencil and magic keyboard. At first it seems overly expensive, but it is very much well worth the money if you can afford it. It took me a while to learn 2 fingers on the screen is undo and 3 is redo, and that's really as much as I know for gesture control. The split screen is nice, but like you say, there's definitely room for improvement. Thanks for reading, and I enjoy your comment and thoughts. :)
ebg13 6y ago
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iPad 12.9“ 2020 review (A PC user’s perspective)

12 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago

A_No_Name_Mouse 6y ago
https://outline.com/sG2n47 https://outline.com/sG2n47 for reading without signing up
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akkawwakka 6y ago
Apple has done a nice job of adding a lot of power user functionality to iPadOS, and iOS in general, but discoverability remains a huge challenge. Multitasking is a kludgy set of gestures and dragging things around. There aren’t great affordances that help less sophisticated users understand the system. The only chance a new user has to discover the new obtuse gesture-based cut, copy, and paste system is a single dialog, shown once, that you are liable to accidentally dismiss. Oh, and don’t forget shake to undo. Seems that one thing Apple could do to help is offer a truly interactive user guide, manual, or tutorial like those we used to learn how mice worked in the 90s (“Mouse Practice”) [1]. Hey, maybe even add it to Tips.app. (Personally, for me, I’ve gone from an iPad productivity skeptic, to preferring using the iPad Pro w/Magic Keyboard for any computing task short of programming.) [1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlFnGgZHPzY https://youtube.com/watch?v=BlFnGgZHPzY
- michaelbrooks 6y ago
  I was a huge Apple skeptic before the iPhone 11, and decided to give the Pro a go. Much like yourself, I now use it for most of my productivity tasks. All of my blog posts are now mostly written on the iPad, and I love the pencil and magic keyboard. At first it seems overly expensive, but it is very much well worth the money if you can afford it. It took me a while to learn 2 fingers on the screen is undo and 3 is redo, and that's really as much as I know for gesture control. The split screen is nice, but like you say, there's definitely room for improvement. Thanks for reading, and I enjoy your comment and thoughts. :)
ebg13 6y ago
This is content-free blogspam. It looks like all of this user's past submissions are too?