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To a first approximation, that's what it still is all these years later. The software might be called iPadOS now but it's not fooling anyone that it's much diff
by frou_dh 3y ago
To a first approximation, that's what it still is all these years later. The software might be called iPadOS now but it's not fooling anyone that it's much different to iOS.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoIt is iOS in all but name, isn't it? Same version and basically same changelogs?
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI'm an Apple developer. When I release my apps, I only do so as iOS, and that runs on iPadOS. In the code, I check for the environment, in some cases, and do things differently, if it's an iPad.
- bombcar 3y agoTHE iPad supports a few things that the iPhone doesn’t, the main one being screen size, the two apps next to each other (iirc) and the pencil. But lots of apps can just treat it as a big phone.
- ghaff 3y agoThere are some specific use cases like creating digital artwork and certain gaming/video where the difference between an iPhone and and an iPad really is arguably a difference in kind. But, yeah, especially with larger iPhones (even sub-Max) I've come to see an iPad as increasingly optional for most purposes.
- longtimelistnr 3y agoYes, I would agree. I use an iPad Pro for 3D modeling as well as drawing and graphic design. For those applications (especially 3D modeling) the M1 and large screen make a massive difference.
- dpkonofa 3y agoYeah, but just like I said back then, that's like saying that a bathtub and a swimming pool are the same because they're both masses of contained water. The difference is explicitly in the size.
- inquirerGeneral 3y agoOT: yes this is still true for “create link” on iOS though Chrome and Edge both have the option From 2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33328944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33328944
- frou_dh 3y agoThanks for confirming. BTW, I vouch'd your comment because you seem to be shadow-banned.