@Pace
Those are definitely interesting questions
If they did ever bring MacOS to iPad, they would probably sell 1 device key for it for 200 dollars or something crazy
@Monty
E/u/stuck_lozenge what were you saying again? Exactly the comments I was describing.
Stop claiming ‘gaslighting’ when it’s spot on.
>sell 1 device key for it for 200 dollars or something.
Feel free to fix your downvote of my accurate comment. Not that I expect any honor or sense here, lol.
Annoying?
Here here! Some valid criticisms and good food for conversation? Ten bucks you get crickets here in comments.
Needs more MAPPLE GREEDY NO GIMME DA MACOS SO SPENSIVE NOT $50 WHY APPLE SO BAD to it, I think to be a top of this sub, lol.
Los Isley has nothing on this place.
I should have known the first worthwhile post in this sub in a year would be Frederico.
He’s phenomenal!
@Drake
In everyone of these threads where you lot are gaslighting people; the most upvoted comments all say they don’t need macOS on the iPad, Just feature parity. Literally every single thread posting " I’m tired of hearing that you want macOS on the iPad" is countered by this exact statement every time. you just want to live in rage bait and ignorance. This article perfectly highlights what both sides have been saying but you’re too busy arguing for brownie points instead of LISTENING and we are both saying the same shit lol
@Tecktactician
What are you on about ?
I have good reason to say what I said, and it’s true.
Color me pleasantly surprised that this threat isn’t bombarded by the usual ‘greedy apple won’t hurt laptop sales’ blah blah.
Stop ruining the first pleasant post in this sub in a year.
1.) I have great respect for Vittici
2.) There are a ton of issues with iPadOS that need attention.
BUT…
A lot of this stuff seems to take the “make it like MacOS” solution which strikes me as the wrong way to solve the problems. I will admit I’m not the “brains” to figure it out, but there IS something to the use metaphor the iPad is trying to evoke. It strikes me that these solutions will simply agitate both camps- the “give me Mac OS” people won’t think they go far enough and the “iPad should be an iPad” people will think they’ve gone too far.
I would like to see a lot of work put into iPad OS to make it more useful to many, but not necessarily to all. Part of the appeal of all the iOS branches has been an incredibly easy-to-use metaphor, and a lot of these problems (and suggested solutions) kill that aspect of the product. The “Pro” in iPad Pro isn’t meant to imply a “computer pro,” and I think we can find ways to better define the iPad’s use cases and implement changes that preserve the metaphor without added substantial complexity.
And by “we” I definitely mean people smarter than me.
No one I know with an iPad gives a shit about this. The people who have specific needs will get another device. Apple is not going to change iPad OS because 1% of users on Reddit don’t like it. It’s a free market buy something else
@Ciel
But these are points that just improve the iPad OS. It doesn’t do anything to convert it into a Mac competitor. Just little changes that Apple should do regardless. The average user doesn’t even have to deal with it if they don’t care about it.
@Pace
My dad didn’t know about find my on his iPad for years. I’m pretty sure it’s a porn machine 
iPads are good for one thing - it begins with a p and ends with an n.
Cael said:
iPads are good for one thing - it begins with a p and ends with an n.
Procrastination?
>Missing Apps
>Calculator
Yeah this is so dumb, really hope Apple fixes this in iPadOS 18
>TextEdit
Just use Notes, it has way more features and syncs to iCloud, it’s a vastly superior app
>Preview
I’ve found opening PDFs in Files gives me everything I need. I can see everything in pixel-perfect quality, I can annotate with my Apple Pencil. Sure it’s missing some features like filling in text boxes on PDFs but frankly I’ve found that even Preview can mess this up sometimes so I’ve always trusted Adobe Acrobat for this function the few times I’ve ever needed it.
>Terminal
Nobody needs this on an iPad
>XCode
Fair point but Swift Playgrounds does exist so it’s not like developing apps for Apple devices is impossible on an iPad
@Kade
hit cmd + space and type whatever calculations you want. This has been in iPadOS for a long time (a decade?). The idea that apple needs a separate app for this and is somehow failing its users is silly
An said:
@Kade
>Just use Notes, it has way more features and syncs to iCloud, it’s a vastly superior app
Different use cases?
A markup-less raw text editor is a lot more useful to some people than notes.
Sure but I’m talking in the context of the article author who was only using TextEdit to jot down quick notes and that is literally the entire purpose of the Notes app
@An
That’s cool but I think we need to consider the typical use-cases of average users and an extremely common theme on this sub and in tech blogs is that you have technical power users asking for niche features and not realising how niche their requests are in the grand scheme of things
@An
For a few technical power users it’s annoying not to have it, the vast majority of iPad users don’t even notice it’s missing
The iPad is a highly capable computer but it is designed with a specific audience in mind e.g. not technical power user professionals but more creative professionals
@An
The idea behind Surface is cool, but there’s a reason they weren’t all that successful and that’s because you can’t just slap a desktop OS on a touchscreen regardless of whatever initial novelty value it may have it is fundamentally impractical and not that useful to most people
@An
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