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The iPad is such an amazing piece of hardware crippled by software in my opinion. My girlfriend has the first iPad Pro that came with an m1 and it's so well bui
by doix 2y ago
The iPad is such an amazing piece of hardware crippled by software in my opinion. My girlfriend has the first iPad Pro that came with an m1 and it's so well built. The screen and battery life are amazing, but I personally can't use it for anything apart from watching videos.
She uses it for drawing stuff in Procreate, and is pretty happy with it, but it feels like such a waste. The "desktop" experience is so bad that she also has a macbook pro for "real tasks". In reality, if the iPad wasn't so gimped by the software, she wouldn't need the macbook. I guess Apple realizes this, which is why they put in the limitations.
I really hope the end result is that Apple just ends up shipping OSX on the iPad pros instead of iOS. Highly unlikely, but a man can dream.
- goosedragons 2y agoYup. I liked my 2017 iPad Pro, hardware as decent and I mostly enjoyed the UI at the time but a lot of my work was simply impossible to do because of Apple's arbitrary software bullshit. I tried working around it by logging into my desktop at home but that was flakey and annoying for a number of reasons (sometimes WiFi networks would block the ports, sometimes I needed to see something not viewable over text, etc.). The iPad accessory ecosystem is also just ridiculously overpriced. $200+ to $300+ for a keyboard/mouse combo that will if you're lucky will maybe work on the next model you upgrade to and only works with a single device is insane. Then the stylus is $130 more. They make the MS Surface accessories look cheap. I don't want OS X on the iPad. I genuinely think that would be a bad experience but they do need to not cripple iPadOS.
- iamdamian 2y agoI’d be happy just being able to run arbitrary commands on a proper CLI.