This article does a brilliant job of summarising the true issues in iPad OS (not the MacOS on iPad stuff we hear everyday). While I definitely don’t care about certain points mentioned, in general a long list of truly annoying iPad OS features.
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This is exactly what’s going to happen. The company needs fresh leadership , or whomever is making decisions needs to take a vacation. Look at Vision Pro, that is a product that could have come out after Apple focused on AI, with no detriment.
I would be absolutely shocked if their OS released this year delivered groundbreaking features and overhauls.
@Dane
Yes, this is exactly what I expect to happen at WWDC. The hardware team at Apple is absolutely on fire last few years - M1/A-series SoC, MacBooks have never looked better, iPad Pro hardware is top notch, Vision Pro is an engineering marvel. Software is just so behind - iOS and EU trouble, iPad OS is stagnant, macOS hasn’t seen much improvement but it’s rather matured so I don’t have much to say, vision OS has barely any apps.
@Pace
> macOS hasn’t seen much improvement but it’s rather matured so I don’t have much to say
They changed the UI of various little things for no good reason beyond making it more iOS like, most notably settings. The new UI is terrible. And changing the volume icon in the menu bar is extremely irritating.
@Pace
Ahhh yes. The “software team” are no good. Let’s fire them.
@Dane
That’s my expectations as well. I expect the AI not to be that great either. The first revision will be kind of meh, but improving over time.
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I’m expecting those of us who don’t have an M4 device will get ten minutes about how the Journal app is coming to iPad and they think we’re going to love it.
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I’m expecting those of us who don’t have an M4 device will get ten minutes about how the Journal app is coming to iPad and they think we’re going to love it.
It’s the thinnest journaling app we’ve ever created and it’s coming to ipaaad. We think you’re really going to love it.
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>My fear with WWDC: “We didn‘t address any of your issues. Instead, enjoy some new AI features—exclusive to M4 iPad ProsiPhones, naturally.”
Jordan said:
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>My fear with WWDC: “We didn‘t address any of your issues. Instead, enjoy some new AI features—exclusive to M4 iPad ProsiPhones, naturally.”
Then it will come to ipad by the following year. Lol
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I’m so sick of this forced AI nonsense, it’s all gimmick, and almost nobody’s asking for it.
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Finder should be on iPad and iPhone in place of the files app
Jordan said:
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This is exactly what will happen
They build things for themselves not the everyday user who wants basic functionality
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I feel like it’s all gonna be just the AI features for the iPad. Nothing else will change.
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That will crush my dreams
“Mail for iPadOS still doesn’t let you create smart mailboxes like it does on the Mac; nor does Music for iPadOS support the Mac version’s smart playlists. The same is also true for the Files app and its lack of Finder’s smart folder functionality.”
Yet another solid and real area Apple has dropped the ball. We don’t need macOS. We need MacOS feature parity.
Article exactly sums up my feelings. It’s even more annoying knowing that EU iPad users are likely going to get native chrome support (not just a wrapper over safari) and side loading.
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@Drake
exactly. But at this point it has been so long of not getting the features we want, we just changed to “just port macOS over”
I disagree. Because all you have to do is look back since the introduction of the iPad. ‘HUGE SNOOZE’ ‘NOT A REAL COMPUTER’ ‘APPLE FAILED AGAIN’ ‘BIG PHONE’ has been the endless drumbeat on this from the minority of users who didn’t get what ‘a computer for the rest of us’ was all about.
This is a really nuanced and wonderful article and Frederico is famous for his amazing solutions in software. There’s a lot of valid criticism of the iPad but it’s rarely the things people say here.
@Drake
This. I don’t want macOS on the iPad. I want a touch-first operating system. But feature parity and better background apps/processing would go a long way to making iPads a pro machine right there.