As per the Beastie Boys, you’ve got to fight for your right to party.
Well, OK.
But you shouldn’t have to fight for your consumer rights… but I did when using Apple Australia’s supposedly “easy” trade-in service for an iPad. It was anything but easy…
(A long read at Gizmodo Australia, because I’m stubborn about these kinds of things. It should not take the kind of fighting I had to do here to get a positive result)
Here’s a secret you may not have known if you bought a new iPad, iMac or MacBook. Apple has quietly added a Thread radio to several new Macs and iPads released since September 2023. @theverge has more, including which models on which they found evidence of Thread testing: https://flip.it/-R.XMr #Tech#Apple#SmartPhone#iPhone#iPad#Mac
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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WWWOOOOWWW! Wohoo! Just discovered that control+Option right or left arrow will scroll my Mastodon advanced UI right or left on the iPad I am airplaying to a monitor and keyboard. Game changer!
Después de defender el iPad ahora vengo desde mi Android a comentar lo suave que es bajar música desde los 7 mares sin encender la compu. P.D. bajar torrent desde iOS legalmente no se puede o no he podido. Soy super bipolar. #android#ipad
Managed to try the Quirkey #accessibility keyboard out on an #iPad with a USB adaptor, and it seems to work. Certainly well enough for a deeper dive...
I tried #RetroArch on the #ipad. The experience is not bad, especially using a Bluetooth controller. But still prefer how this works on #Android; much easier to deal with ROM files, and the screen on my Samsung (OLED) looks better.
Setting aside the fact our tech has been getting smaller and thinner for decades so I don’t really understand this question, I think the larger benefit is weight.
As someone who has been using a 13” iPad Pro for ~ 80% of my daily work and play for years, every fraction of an ounce they can shed is welcome, especially since this device is designed to be held; it doesn’t just sit on a surface like a laptop.
a new article on 9to5Mac comparing the iPad Pro with the upcoming Surface Pro. unfortunately it also conveniently ignores the fact that one is effectively running a super limited phone OS while the other a fully flexible desktop OS.
I hope that this will finally force Apple to allow iPad Pros to run macOS (even virtualized) as all that awesome power is just getting wasted.
The iPad’s Land of Confusion (timemachiner.io)
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