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hey this is still just an ipad yup
turns out ipad os still does not make the ipad pro a laptop
replacement but there is some good news because what
it does do is make it both a better ipad
and a better computer
so let's talk about what we mean by that and what it's like to use it
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it feels like every time apple releases a new ipad they seem to be making the
case yet again that tablets or specifically
their tablet are the future of mainstream computing
and you know what that might end up being true at some point but as we said
in the conclusion of our ipad pro review
in order to lead us to that future apple
needs to make iOS much more robust
well i guess apple watches our videos because it looks like they listen to us
along with well every other tech reviewer so at
wwdc 2019 apple announced that ipads
would get their own specialized version of iOS called
ipad os with new features that bring the ipad experience closer to the one that
you'd expect from a laptop or a desktop including multitasking improvements
external drive support finally
and even mouse support but before you guys get too amped up
watch the rest of the video because it's not quite what you'd expect
or rather it might be exactly what you'd expect i mean
this is still apple we're talking about so let's start with the home screen app
icons are now smaller so you can fit more on one page that's cool and you can
now slide the today view with its list of widgets in from the left side
now let's talk multitasking split view and slide over have gotten a big upgrade
you can now place two instances apple is calling these spaces but to simplify our
lives we're going to refer to them as Windows so two instances of some apps side by
side like here you can see we fired up two file Windows or two notes Windows
within the notes app now you could already bring up iphone
width apps in slide over mode on iOS 12
but now you can add more apps to slide over and you can switch between them
just like you do with your full screen apps now as i mentioned not every app
supports spaces right now i couldn't open two
word documents side by side for instance but for the apps that do support it this
better use of the screen real estate on the ipad is an absolute godsend i mean i
think it's fair to say that it's easier than it has ever been to work on a
document reference a webpage and message
someone at the same time on an ipad
it does take some getting used to especially once you find out that
there's now essentially a multitasking expose menu for each space enabled app
and then that to see it you've got to open the app
then bring up the dock and tap the apps icon again
but once you get all of that through your thick skull it's completely
intuitive now let's move on to external storage
support i was tempted to not even give apple a
point for this because its absence was so dumb to begin with kind of like
copy paste that they shouldn't get praised for implementing it but
that would be petty so i'll say this better late than never
here's how it works you plug in fire up the files app then using the new columns
views you can easily browse and transfer
the files on your external storage device
both of these features were much needed on a device with the pro moniker and i
couldn't be happier that they're finally here
another much needed feature is the ability to load the desktop versions of
websites by default so you can access
desktop versions on iOS versions prior to 13 but you need to tap and hold the
refresh button every time a page loads so now browsing
the web on an ipad does feel more like using a laptop or a desktop making our
writer for this video riley want to smash the ipad pro into the wall
far less frequently next up we've got some more
minor changes that make the ipad easier to use these include new gestures
requiring three fingers so you can pinch
to copy spread your fingers to paste and
you can also tap three times or swipe to
the left to undo pinching the on-screen keyboard will shrink it down to phone
size making it even easier to use the new swipe to text feature that apple
finally added and you can scroll through pages using the scroll bar rather than
swiping down endlessly now the apple pencil where is it there it is
also gets some major improvements it has even lower latency which is impressive
considering it was already nigh imperceptible you can now easily
screenshot and annotate in any app by dragging from the bottom corner and with
pencil kit developers can natively integrate the pencil palette into their
apps so the pencil experience will now be consistently great across ipad apps
not just in apple notes so now
let's address the greatest fear of the
elephant in the room what
nice oh come on
let's talk mouse support it's finally here
but it is very unconventional and looks
like this
so what they've done here is
rather than implement this much requested feature in a
predictable or conventional way um is
well it appears that apple has begrudgingly added it in as part of
their assistive touch accessibility feature
so from their perspective it's meant then for folks who have difficulty
touching the screen or who require an adaptive accessory also known as
a mouse so okay then once assistive touch is enabled you
connect your adaptive accessory via bluetooth or a dongle just like you
would any other device but the thing is
is that it's meant to emulate physical touch
not behave like a traditional mouse and
that becomes clear the first time you try to use the scroll wheel in certain
apps or right click for a context menu
now assistive touch has quite a few customization options available which
would seem to be very useful to people who are actually using it as an
accessibility feature but they're just honestly not that great for
laptop users who are just trying to use a freaking mouse on an ipad
to be clear the experience wasn't horrible it
definitely saved riley some ARM strain from reaching up and tapping when he
could just move the mouse an inch and click but
it definitely does not suddenly make the
ipad pro just as good of a desk or or a
lap based computer as a laptop would be
in fact adding a mouse almost made it more apparent that trying to treat iOS
as a desktop operating system is a bit of a masochistic endeavor apple is
plainly making it clear that using a mouse on ipad is just not part of their
vision for the platform which got me thinking you know when i
heard that apple was adding things like mouse support external storage i thought
great the ipad is going to be more like a
normal computer but i was wrong because apple isn't
trying to make the ipad pro more like a
computer they're trying to help the ipad which is still
very much an ipad be more useful as a computer
now that might seem like i'm saying the same thing but let me explain here
i as a power user expect to have certain
features on my computers a high precision mouse or track pad
i expect a desktop which i can populate with Windows that i can move or resize
at will i expect a file manager that lets me see all of the contents of my
machine and anything that i've attached to it the way i want to see it so to me
the computer experience is about giving the user the tools and the freedom to
use the machine the way that they want to use it
but the cold hard truth is that is not what the ipad is about
and that's clearer than ever with the ipad os update
while ipad os certainly gives users more freedom than iOS 12 the ipad experience
is still very much about embracing the machine's identity as a handheld
touch-powered or excuse me pencil-powered as it were device
but here's the thing maybe
just maybe that's the right
decision okay okay wait hear me out guys
i think up until now we've been actually going about this video entirely the
wrong way like it's we always go through the same song and dance apple calls the
ipad a computer what's a computer we laugh review it against a laptop and
scoff at its lack of mouse support and pitiful file management etc etc etc but
while microsoft's dream was having one operating system across phones tablets
and pcs and samsung is meanwhile trying to get their users to use their phone as
a desktop machine apple isn't trying to make the ipad into
a laptop they already sell laptops and
they've been just as resistant to adding touch support to macbooks as they've
been to adding desktop features to ipads
they clearly have no desire to unify the experience of what it's like to use an
iphone an ipad and a mac so someone who
keeps comparing ipads to laptops is never really going to be satisfied until
apple releases an ipad that's basically a macbook with touchscreen which is a
great idea and they should do that but instead of doing that apple has
chosen to add a new category of productivity machines tablets that
aren't just giant phones that you use for watching
netflix playing mobile games and skyping so excuse me facetiming grammar and that
aren't just a harder to use and less capable laptop
so ipad os is a vision of a future where
an artist or a business owner or a family
buy an ipad as their sole computer
because while it is certainly less efficient for
some tasks a lot of tasks if you only use your computer once in a
while why would you buy a bulky awkward laptop
instead i mean it does say something that once
riley started thinking of the ipad pro as less of a bad laptop and more of a
better ipad he went and finished writing this review sitting on a beanbag using
the mini swipe to text keyboard with word safari and notes open on screen at
the same time and it wasn't bad
like at least it was more ergonomic
so in conclusion then we think that with ipad os the ipad can be someone's next
computer but what apple needs to do between now and
then is to clarify their messaging because it's been kind of a confusing
mess so far they'll say things like the ipad pro can be your next computer so
like wait it's a computer but then they'll say it's like a computer but
unlike any computer so wait it's
not a computer then they had this other campaign
describing the ipad as a new way to take notes or make music or create a
presentation which i think is actually the most accurate the ipad is especially
with ipad os a new way to use a computer
a worse way for some people like myself
but perhaps a better way for others
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