Hi y’all, If you’ve not yet read these articles you may well enjoy them:
https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_pro/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/5/18062612/apple-ipad-pro-review-2018-screen-usb-c-pencil-price-features I eagerly await Federico Vitticci’s full assessment with a couple of weeks: https://www.macstories.net I jumped in on the 7th and bought an 11” iPad Pro. I know (to some degree) what the guys above mean. I’ve had Apple kit since buying the original Macintosh in ’84 and had several Macs since then and now a lovely MacBook pro. I’ve also owned the first iPad, the iPad Air and now the new Pro. My feeling within half an hour was that this seems the most perfectly realised machine that Apple have ever created - it’s so light, feels so good to hold, the Apple pencil is brilliant, FaceID coupled with everything else really does make it feel ‘magical' (especially when I’ve never even seen an iPhone X!) and it’s stupidly quick, slick and smooth. But, why can’t I enter the name and/or description for a photo in the Photos app or add a keyword? I can search for both but can only add them on my MacBook. Why can’t I create smart albums in either Files, Mail or Photos on the iPad when I can do all of those on my Mac? I’d be able to do all of those things on a 5 year old Macbook Air! As Craig says above: "Buy one of these new iPads. They’re seductive beyond reason. Buy it knowing well what its limitations may be. But knowing also that it will get better. That its engine is years ahead of its software. And in owning one you’ll be able to follow along as a contemporary operating system matures in real-time, beta-by-beta, before your very eyes. It’s not often we get to enjoy this. For now, though, the iPad is still good for writing. Amazing for sketching. Reliable as a tank. Just don’t switch too quickly between apps. Don’t expect your cursor to be where you think it should be. Don’t try to do anything fancy with files. Don’t design a book on it. And don’t hope to open two documents from the same app side-by-side. Yet.” I’ve been thinking recently that iOS 7 was a big change in many things iOS 6 years after the original iPhone. iOS 13 will be 6 years after iOS 7. I wonder … And as Federico has noted, iPad focussed iOS updates tend to be every other release of iOS. Mind you, the issues pointed out by the reviewers are conceptual blocks/restrictions by Apple, not really just ’software changes’. Even with all these caveats though, I love it to bits! 😀 Cheers, Stephen Overheard at work: “That tenant came in again today, you know the one who claims to read minds. She said mine is hard to read. I thought, it shouldn’t be - it’s only got two words in it." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
