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um

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hey this is still just an ipad yup

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turns out ipad os still does not make the ipad pro a laptop

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replacement but there is some good news because what

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it does do is make it both a better ipad

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and a better computer

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so let's talk about what we mean by that and what it's like to use it

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description

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it feels like every time apple releases a new ipad they seem to be making the

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case yet again that tablets or specifically

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their tablet are the future of mainstream computing

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and you know what that might end up being true at some point but as we said

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in the conclusion of our ipad pro review

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in order to lead us to that future apple

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needs to make iOS much more robust

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well i guess apple watches our videos because it looks like they listen to us

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along with well every other tech reviewer so at

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wwdc 2019 apple announced that ipads

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would get their own specialized version of iOS called

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ipad os with new features that bring the ipad experience closer to the one that

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you'd expect from a laptop or a desktop including multitasking improvements

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external drive support finally

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and even mouse support but before you guys get too amped up

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watch the rest of the video because it's not quite what you'd expect

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or rather it might be exactly what you'd expect i mean

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this is still apple we're talking about so let's start with the home screen app

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icons are now smaller so you can fit more on one page that's cool and you can

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now slide the today view with its list of widgets in from the left side

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now let's talk multitasking split view and slide over have gotten a big upgrade

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you can now place two instances apple is calling these spaces but to simplify our

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lives we're going to refer to them as Windows so two instances of some apps side by

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side like here you can see we fired up two file Windows or two notes Windows

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within the notes app now you could already bring up iphone

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width apps in slide over mode on iOS 12

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but now you can add more apps to slide over and you can switch between them

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just like you do with your full screen apps now as i mentioned not every app

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supports spaces right now i couldn't open two

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word documents side by side for instance but for the apps that do support it this

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better use of the screen real estate on the ipad is an absolute godsend i mean i

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think it's fair to say that it's easier than it has ever been to work on a

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document reference a webpage and message

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someone at the same time on an ipad

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it does take some getting used to especially once you find out that

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there's now essentially a multitasking expose menu for each space enabled app

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and then that to see it you've got to open the app

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then bring up the dock and tap the apps icon again

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but once you get all of that through your thick skull it's completely

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intuitive now let's move on to external storage

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support i was tempted to not even give apple a

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point for this because its absence was so dumb to begin with kind of like

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copy paste that they shouldn't get praised for implementing it but

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that would be petty so i'll say this better late than never

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here's how it works you plug in fire up the files app then using the new columns

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views you can easily browse and transfer

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the files on your external storage device

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both of these features were much needed on a device with the pro moniker and i

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couldn't be happier that they're finally here

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another much needed feature is the ability to load the desktop versions of

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websites by default so you can access

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desktop versions on iOS versions prior to 13 but you need to tap and hold the

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refresh button every time a page loads so now browsing

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the web on an ipad does feel more like using a laptop or a desktop making our

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writer for this video riley want to smash the ipad pro into the wall

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far less frequently next up we've got some more

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minor changes that make the ipad easier to use these include new gestures

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requiring three fingers so you can pinch

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to copy spread your fingers to paste and

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you can also tap three times or swipe to

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the left to undo pinching the on-screen keyboard will shrink it down to phone

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size making it even easier to use the new swipe to text feature that apple

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finally added and you can scroll through pages using the scroll bar rather than

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swiping down endlessly now the apple pencil where is it there it is

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also gets some major improvements it has even lower latency which is impressive

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considering it was already nigh imperceptible you can now easily

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screenshot and annotate in any app by dragging from the bottom corner and with

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pencil kit developers can natively integrate the pencil palette into their

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apps so the pencil experience will now be consistently great across ipad apps

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not just in apple notes so now

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let's address the greatest fear of the

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elephant in the room what

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nice oh come on

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let's talk mouse support it's finally here

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but it is very unconventional and looks

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like this

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so what they've done here is

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rather than implement this much requested feature in a

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predictable or conventional way um is

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well it appears that apple has begrudgingly added it in as part of

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their assistive touch accessibility feature

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so from their perspective it's meant then for folks who have difficulty

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touching the screen or who require an adaptive accessory also known as

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a mouse so okay then once assistive touch is enabled you

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connect your adaptive accessory via bluetooth or a dongle just like you

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would any other device but the thing is

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is that it's meant to emulate physical touch

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not behave like a traditional mouse and

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that becomes clear the first time you try to use the scroll wheel in certain

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apps or right click for a context menu

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now assistive touch has quite a few customization options available which

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would seem to be very useful to people who are actually using it as an

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accessibility feature but they're just honestly not that great for

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laptop users who are just trying to use a freaking mouse on an ipad

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to be clear the experience wasn't horrible it

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definitely saved riley some ARM strain from reaching up and tapping when he

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could just move the mouse an inch and click but

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it definitely does not suddenly make the

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ipad pro just as good of a desk or or a

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lap based computer as a laptop would be

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in fact adding a mouse almost made it more apparent that trying to treat iOS

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as a desktop operating system is a bit of a masochistic endeavor apple is

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plainly making it clear that using a mouse on ipad is just not part of their

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vision for the platform which got me thinking you know when i

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heard that apple was adding things like mouse support external storage i thought

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great the ipad is going to be more like a

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normal computer but i was wrong because apple isn't

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trying to make the ipad pro more like a

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computer they're trying to help the ipad which is still

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very much an ipad be more useful as a computer

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now that might seem like i'm saying the same thing but let me explain here

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i as a power user expect to have certain

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features on my computers a high precision mouse or track pad

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i expect a desktop which i can populate with Windows that i can move or resize

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at will i expect a file manager that lets me see all of the contents of my

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machine and anything that i've attached to it the way i want to see it so to me

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the computer experience is about giving the user the tools and the freedom to

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use the machine the way that they want to use it

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but the cold hard truth is that is not what the ipad is about

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and that's clearer than ever with the ipad os update

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while ipad os certainly gives users more freedom than iOS 12 the ipad experience

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is still very much about embracing the machine's identity as a handheld

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touch-powered or excuse me pencil-powered as it were device

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but here's the thing maybe

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just maybe that's the right

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decision okay okay wait hear me out guys

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i think up until now we've been actually going about this video entirely the

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wrong way like it's we always go through the same song and dance apple calls the

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ipad a computer what's a computer we laugh review it against a laptop and

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scoff at its lack of mouse support and pitiful file management etc etc etc but

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while microsoft's dream was having one operating system across phones tablets

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and pcs and samsung is meanwhile trying to get their users to use their phone as

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a desktop machine apple isn't trying to make the ipad into

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a laptop they already sell laptops and

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they've been just as resistant to adding touch support to macbooks as they've

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been to adding desktop features to ipads

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they clearly have no desire to unify the experience of what it's like to use an

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iphone an ipad and a mac so someone who

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keeps comparing ipads to laptops is never really going to be satisfied until

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apple releases an ipad that's basically a macbook with touchscreen which is a

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great idea and they should do that but instead of doing that apple has

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chosen to add a new category of productivity machines tablets that

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aren't just giant phones that you use for watching

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netflix playing mobile games and skyping so excuse me facetiming grammar and that

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aren't just a harder to use and less capable laptop

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so ipad os is a vision of a future where

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an artist or a business owner or a family

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buy an ipad as their sole computer

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because while it is certainly less efficient for

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some tasks a lot of tasks if you only use your computer once in a

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while why would you buy a bulky awkward laptop

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instead i mean it does say something that once

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riley started thinking of the ipad pro as less of a bad laptop and more of a

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better ipad he went and finished writing this review sitting on a beanbag using

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the mini swipe to text keyboard with word safari and notes open on screen at

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the same time and it wasn't bad

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like at least it was more ergonomic

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so in conclusion then we think that with ipad os the ipad can be someone's next

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computer but what apple needs to do between now and

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then is to clarify their messaging because it's been kind of a confusing

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mess so far they'll say things like the ipad pro can be your next computer so

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like wait it's a computer but then they'll say it's like a computer but

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unlike any computer so wait it's

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not a computer then they had this other campaign

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describing the ipad as a new way to take notes or make music or create a

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presentation which i think is actually the most accurate the ipad is especially

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with ipad os a new way to use a computer

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a worse way for some people like myself

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