This article by #CoryDoctorow from 2010(!) is more valid than ever. Not just related to iPads but for the whole #Apple ecosystem. You rarely own an Apple device whose biggest value it only gets by accessing the walled gardens Apple has total control over.
It's for #consumers and not for people who want to play with their devices in a #creative way!
If you are an #Apple enthusiast and are a #Reddit refuge trying out #Lemmy or #Kbin, I moderate quite a few Apple communities over on #LemmyWorld. Come join in on the convos!
Pls BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse 🙏🏼
That’s it. Packed up the #AppleTV for the last time. What finally did it for me was the #Netflix app not correctly detecting streaming bandwidth and increasing resolution. And it’s done this before. Play a show, it pixelates like I’m streaming over a 300bps modem, which is sometimes normal with apps until they detect that you in fact have an #AX5400 with #wifi6 and #beamforming and the quality increases. NF app quality didn’t increase. Quit out of the app (I HATE that you can only endtask on the ATV with its own remote and ONLY with swiping turned on, which I don’t have by default because it causes misfires when clicking), start NF app again, same shit stream quality. Back to #FireStick, quality perfect.
Jesus Apple. How do you get things so right (#iPhone, #iPad) and yet so miserably wrong (AppleTV, #AppleWatch and #MacOS - yeah y’all heard me!) almost dead-on 50% of the time either way?
Just as fascinating: that people don’t even realize how much better the alternatives are. 😵💫🤷🏻♂️
One day after launching Vivaldi on iOS, Vivaldi is the top iPad app in Norway and #5 on iPhones. Not a bad start at all. We are on the list in many other countries as well.
Make sure to share the great news with all your friends! @Vivaldi is now available!
There's still no way to completely disable Home background activities on the iPad. It keeps draining the battery when the iPad is idle, even though the iPad is not a hub.
I'll remove "My Home" and all accessories. Perhaps this helps!
Good piece here from @jsnell regarding where the #iPad currently is.
Over the past few years I've gone from 'IPAD ALL THE THINGS' to having an iPad in a drawer with a broken screen that I ought to get repaired, that I wish I could figure out a use for.
For few months now, I use an #iPad for personal stuff, instead of a #laptop.
Downloading files from the net is a bit a pain in the ass, but otherwise, I’m satisfied. I design with #figma via Figurative, and do #geek stuff on my #nas thanks the #LaTerminal app (cc @Migueldeicaza).
I’ll give @penpot a try because the browser engine is #safari, on my pro computer with #firefox it doesn’t work at all.
But on the Magic Keyboard, there is no ESC key, WHY ??? That’s incredible to me and missing. 🤔
I reflexively cringed when I saw this ad. Not only is it wasteful, the message sent across appears to be that Apple literally crushes all the things you like to make the new iPad.
The new iPads are once again mind-blowingly amazing hardware showcases, hamstrung by software and an extractive App Store gatekeeper that limits what users can effectively do.
There is now such a large overlap of prices between iPad and MacBooks that we’ll probably never see a touchscreen Mac, because it would be a superior choice over iPad in most cases.
What I want, really, is macOS running on desktop, laptop, and tablet form factors, with a relatively open software environment not solely owned by the App Store.
I think Microsoft actually got it right with Windows 11 (minus the #enshittification ads). If only they pushed more strongly on the Surface lineup…
Question for the #Apple folks and #iPad users in the fediverse: I’m planning to get an iPad for mainly reading and research stuff and I’m not sure if iPad mini would be enough for the job or should I go for an iPad Air.
Does anyone have recommendations or experience with this kind of use? What do you think I should consider before making the decision?
I wish the back of an #iPhone was like an #iPad - a beautiful one piece of metal that you can easily go caseless. These phones made of glass never made sense. Yeah, it's beautiful but we put inside a case, so what's the point? :sad_bread: #Apple
Would someone answer a OneDrive, Mac and iOS question? As I know little of Apple.
Basically does it all work like it does on Windows and Android?
My friend has a personal 365 subscription, with OneDrive and the apps all working nicely on his Windows laptop.
He wants to get it going on his Mac and his iPad, so that he can edit a spreadsheet on his Windows laptop, and then be able to open it on his iPad and it all be up to date (4G signal notwithstanding, obviously)
Ufff, the #Apple#iPad advert, so tone deaf for our times.
Wrong on so many counts, celebrating the destruction of human creativity and artistry, and contrary to all the R-principles ... rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, recover, recycle, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, reclaim, retrofit, retro-cool, revival, reading the room ...
... all under the heavy, grey-steeled palm of an uncaring machine.
I've got an #iPad / #OSINT puzzle, and I could use any suggestions anybody has to throw out there.
Back in 2022 in the middle of the pandemic a medical provider in NYC sent my uncle an iPad to attend a virtual appointment on.
I'm trying to figure out how to return it to them, or barring that, to factory reset it so that it can be returned to service as a useful device rather than a nearly brand-new iPad needing to be recycled.
This has proven to be... difficult. #Apple#tech#hacking
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OC Favorite iPad games?
Going on a trip for the next few days and will have plenty of downtime in the hotel room on my iPad. What are your favorite ipad games?...