The iPad's Odd New Feature

It’s still a big iPhone.

I think iPad is made for creative professionals and children. I have got the iPad Pro and I was truly amazed by its power. Apple now added Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad with awesome third-party apps like Da Vinci Resolve, Affinity Publisher, Octane X etc. Apple showcased shooting videos with the iPad Pro, which I think is really interesting so I tried it out. I think it is more than enough for casual video production and you don’t have to transfer the videos shot on your phone/camera. Though this is not for “real pros”.

Honestly I've been using an iPad for a single day and I already regret buying it and wanna try returning it if I can.
It's not even remotely close to what I expected it to be, should have done more research before buying it.
Got it hoping it would be a replacement for a laptop and also use it for multimedia consumption and it's definitely not it, expecially considering the awful 4:3 screen aspect ratio.

We got a Weather app now,

My complaint with it is that I have an A10x iPad Pro 12.9”. (2nd gen iPad). Stage manager does not support it because it “requires the power of the new M1 blah blah blah”. I jail broke it and enabled stage manager and it works flawlessly. Apple does this constantly, and the worst part is that they blatantly lie about it. Loyalty goes goes both ways guys. When my daughter asked my advice on what new phone to get, I told her to get an android because I’m tired of Apples BS.

For the calculator they should have it where you swipe opposite control center and it pops up

I’d rather just be able to have 4 apps in the regular multitasking view in quadrants or three

And this is the reason ive always hated apple. Its always about the money not the end user. The good old planned obsolescence is too important to them. It always will be. What a scam

i edit vidoes and make music on my ipad pro

All I fucking care about is top down multitasking so I can watch my video on top and takes notes on the bottom while in portrait

This video was made 9 months and 22 days ago and it has almost 100k likes and it has 2.7M views! (I think btw it's also 276 days)

Insightful video. Good stuff

it's terrible, over engineering something already figured out , love the ipad but that's just bad.

Don't you think that putting a processing unit like a laptop means that they wanna make it like a laptop in near future?
In other words do they have any plan to take ipad os closer to mac os?

Craig just gave a bullshit answer. iPhone and macOS have the same calculator built in. He's talking about making it amazing, you can't. The best you can do is give it scientific and graphing options.

The iPad is great for PDF textbooks and PDF documents. I mainly use it for college, sometimes for work (signing documents/reading documents/marking documents). Reading PDF textbooks and making highlights/quick notes. Using notability to record audio while taking notes. I just really prefer reading and note-taking on the iPad. I also use it on the treadmill to watch shows or read while exercising. I am also a visual speaker, where I like to draw and depict what I am talking about it, and using the iPad to illustrate a point for work or personal discussion is great.

mostly one full screen guy, but some times tasks like planning something is incredibly intuitive with stage manager.

I use my iPad Pro 11" (2nd gen from 2018, so an old one) mainly for drawing and reading, and generally one app at a time, save for when I use slide-over to pull a chat app like Discord or Messenger on screen. I did try Stage Manager for a total of 1 hour and then I turned it back off. It just wasn't doing it for me with all the additional sizing operations and overhead on a screen of that size, and the way I use it to focus on my specific use-cases.

Marques, I have known the answer to this frustration for many years since I was a student.

I wanted a handheld device I could use on a desktop to take notes in class, then walk about campus and review the notes, making changes, hence from the keyboard in the class to touch type on the screen, then finally to reading mode on my lap or in my arm on the subway (though in NYC this can be very dangerous, I cant even wear NIKI Airs without a possible mugging, I literally threw them out after so many others have been attacked, but I digress ). But the iPads failed miserably at this. It makes for a terrible laptop. Especially multitasking. My connections to university servers timed out every time I sent the apps to the background (Apple has strict rules about NOT allowing apps to run in the background though in the settings there is a "fake" refresh in the background option). Anything requiring the Internet ceases in the background in iOS and the app itself barely runs.

The reason is Apple wants the borders between laptop and tablet clearly defined so that the user always requires both. The tablet must be a "companion" device. Why sell a costumer one device when they can sell them two or even three if one counts the iPhone. More the sales, more the profit. Somewhere in 2014 I gave up trying. I threw out the accessories like keyboards for the iPad.

Instead I use a cheap 10 inch Linux laptop. I can hold it in my arms as I walk or on my lap in the subway. And of course it's a laptop if there is a desk. Linux GUI is too clunky to use as a touch screen device so I use the keyboard and touch pad. Only problem is that Chrome is soo bloated and inefficient, it can feel very laggy on a small device.

So the answer is to use a small laptop. And best of all, all the apps are free.
Libre office to replace Microsoft Office. And it's far more powerful and customizable than MS Office if one learns how to use python.
Terminal and web browser connections to servers do NOT time out in the background.
Powerful music and video editing is free. Even the most powerful animation software is available on Linux and it is free.

Yes, LINUX is more complex than Windows or Mac to use. There is a learning curve. Just go slowly and learn only what is needed to use the app. There is no planned obsolescence on LINUX except through Chrome. Chrome becomes more and more unmanageable. Also avoid nVidia GPUs, their support on Linux is very sketchy. Linus, the creator of LINUX gave nVidia the middle finger during a presentation.

I bet it is actually an inside joke at apple at this point, this no Calc for ipad thing...

For work, I use my iPad for drawing markups, a screen for flying my drone, video conferencing, email, lite photoshop work… Sometimes all together. At a recent site visit I was flying the drone while on a conference call with a client showing them what the drone sees. It eats up the battery but it works really well and impresses the clients.

Tbh I just got the 2022 iPad Pro 12.9 this Monday and already I’m finding that I reach for this over my laptop, it’s more portable, better battery life and can do almost everything I need to on my laptop, I’m amazed how far the iPad has come since it’s initial launch

I have an older ipad so I can’t do as much but I do use the split screen feature a lot for many different things. However there are probably not many time I can think of that I would use a lot of apps at once and I would be plenty fine if they stayed open and running but only one app on the screen. By that I mean how when you are in one app and then switch to another it kinda puts the one you just left to sleep or frozen. Idk how to describe it but I hope you understand what I am trying to say.

Apple will never make a tablet to replace one of their laptops. They want thier customers to buy both.

If the iPad is utilized to its full capability it will replace MacBooks for a lot of people. Apple doesn’t want to do that

It's sad how not even MKBHD can justify Apple's bad decisions. This take, that if it worked like a mac it would cannibalize the macbook sales is the most 4head take I've ever heard and just shows how deep Apple's dick is in your throats. It is Apple's job to find a reason for you to buy a macbook over a tablet. If it actually did cannibalize macbook sales, that just shows how their macbook line is carried by the software and suite of pro apps that can't be found on other platforms.

There are many people who would go for a tablet instead of a tablet just because there isn't a keyboard attached to it at all times, which greatly improves it's carriability. I could see myself on the bus watching something on the Ipad and when I get to work I can put it down and connect a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to it and use it.

I've said this before, but the Apple way does not equal good. The standard of how we use MacOs, Windows and Linux has become a standard because of how perfect and good it is. Stage Manager is never going to become the standard, unless apple makes it that way by not giving us a dockl to which we can open and minimize apps in and buttons on each window for close, fullscreen and minimize.

If Apple's IPads didn't have the pedigree they have and the apps that make it so good, they would be in much more trouble, but it is what it is. People don't like change and will never use something like a Samsung Galaxy tablet unless their apps are all there as well, which, even if it happens, it's going to be a long time until it actually does. The IPAD line is carried hard by Apple's reputation and apps.

All of the problems that these tablets have are by apples's own creation and you people act like they can't be fixed or that this is the way it's going to be forever. There is no argument in this world that can prove that the IPAD is better off not having a MacOs like mode for people who need it. It can keep all of the features that make it a tablet and shit like this one guy in the comment section is raving about and also give us what we need. If Samsung had the performance apple puts in their products and the apps, Apple would be in a hurry to copy DeX, but alas, I resign.

Hello Marques, would you be kind to gift me an iPad for free?

I am a touch screen user. If I need to multitask, I do the slide over or better yet, use my phone or other iPad.

classic apple shitshow

Can you play games like 8 ball pool for example using multitasking?

OK, so Apple keeps their IPAD's not like a MAC. When I get my IPAD Pro soon, I would not know how it is supposed to feel, because I have no other Apple Products.

You say the M1 only supports this, does the M2 IPAD Pros also support what is in this video (stage manager-Ext large screen)? I assume it would since it is newer.

Now the question is - Does the IPAD Pro feel anything like my PC's???
I am a dedicated PC user and need an IPAD for a camera to work right. My Android 4G phone will not activate an insta360 camera, not compatible to load their App.
The IPAD will work with the Insta360 App.

So I will be entering the world of Apple IPAD's. MAC computers are too expensive for me even though the IPAD's are not cheap either with the M2 chip.

My end goal is to use the IPAD as a middle interface between the Insta360 camera and my PC's. First make the camera work by activating it with the IPAD. Take videos and move them onto the IPAD, do a little bit of editing, then move/transfer video files over to my PC.

Thanks for the video and take care.

Recently I bought ipad pro I was very excited for this but after some time I realized its just limited apps and other things but i am happy with big screen and a powerful machine no doubt!❤

My iPad could never replace my tower, not the way it is now. I use it the sketch design ideas and taking notes but not for much else. Every other function I would prefer a computer.

it's like apple wants all of their different types of product ranges to have completely different uses. for example they have never had a touchscreen mac because if you want a touchscreen you have to get an ipad. they like separate all the products to get you to spend more money but make it so that the more apple products you buy the better they work together and that locks you into their ecosystem

I use mine mainly as a touchscreen iPad with the exception of editing videos when I connect a Apple keyboard & Magic Mouse + Apple Pencil only because I carnt afford to buy a Magic Keyboard because I carnt work because I have terminal cancer otherwise I would use it more like a laptop if I had a Magic Keyboard

To which I respond with, “why should I get and IPad 9 when I can wait for them to release the IPad 20 which will be so much better?”

It’s impossible to iterate, when you refuse to start out of fear of imperfection. You will never solve imperfection through inaction.

Truly the reason the IPad is not made to be a “real computer” is because they’d lose a market.

They should just do what they did with the IPod and just chuck the whole product line to prioritize on making a product, the IPhone, to replace it and just be a better phone. The only reason they refuse to make the next MacBook Pro and the next IPad the same product is greed and wanting you to buy both.

are you really that naive to think that there is an iPad way? it is just a business decision, if ipad does everyting that mac does , how are you going to sell Mac?

Why make things simple when they could be complicated 😂

Do you know I think the best weather app made by Apple would be the accurate weather app!

How do I use my iPad? I don’t.

I got my iPad Pro because I wanted a quick device to check emails, surf the web, and play games or watch movies. Mostly basic stuff that I could do in a PC, but portable and designed for touch screens.

Now that I have an Apple Pencil, I use it mostly to write a journal. I love taking notes and writing stuff down on my devices. But since I also have a Samsung Note I use that for most of the quick notes I take.

And the main reason I went with an iPad Pro instead of any of the other ones, was due to the fact that it was the only one available the day I went to buy it. And I definitely didn’t want a normal iPad since I don’t have any other lightning devices.

By the way, this whole comment was written with the iPad’s speech to text feature, and I think it works rather well. I’m kinda impressed.

iPad macOS

Bruh i have ios 12 has calculator with customizable colours im serious😅

Mainly use my iPad in either single screen mode or split screen where I can keep a video on the left and notes on the right. I also had a play with stage manager recently (have an m1 air)… and normally I can work out how to do things but had to google to work out how to resize etc (hadn’t watched any of the bumf on stage manager - just turned it on for the first time!)…

For a small screen iPad like mine I think 2 apps up is the limit and most workflows I would use this would be fine or even just one app and switching…
But I still have and for foreseeable future will keep a laptop (which does seem to get less and less use these days).

I also think it’s a bit easier to use iMovie on the laptop but then I only edit videos rarely and have done some on the iPad recently to make some magic movies for the kids !

Great bit of kit… I think you’re bang on that stage manager and other features are indeed a little bit weird but what’s the odds it will improve massively with little tweaks and we may look back at this as revolutionary!

They rarely get things wrong or not fixable…!

So me as a student I use the iPad in pretty different ways: In university I use it with the Apple Pencil, laying flat on the table. At home I’m using it as I would use a Mac (I have a Magic Keyboard). But I hate the fact that I can’t use macOS, because why? I mean I have a Keyboard with Trackpad from Apple, I could understand it if I just us the touchscreen, but I don’t.

Yepp make the ipad calculator really really great! We have widgets....lol brilliant:)

I use my Ipad Pro 12.9 inch 2022 model as a digital sculpting/drawing tablet and I couldnt be happier with it from that perspective. I dont do alot of multi-tasking on the Ipad, since I use my PC for that, but for artists Ipad is in a league of its own with no serious competition.