For a few weeks now, I've been using VidHub as a video player on my iPad and MacBook.
I was actually looking for an alternative to Infuse; I thought its yearly subscription was unnecessarily expensive. While browsing, I came across this app:
@Eghone I'm comparing lifetime licenses. I'd rather get an open source version and donate to them, and while I was searching for it I stumbled upon this one.
In my country, lifetime licenses are like this : For Infuse: 4000 TRL ($125) lifetime , versus 499 TRL ($15) lifetime of VidHub, so it's almost 10x more expensive, so nah.
@habibcham@numericcitizen I would be interested to hear what parts of Viticci’s issues with iPadOS are due to his ignorance of how operating systems work.
I saw this article on Hacker News, and I've never felt more seen in my entire life. I gave away my iPad this year and I forgot until I saw this article - I always end up using my MacBook or my Thinkpad to get stuff done as the iPad is just utterly restricted at the software layer.
@soheb the iPads are such expensive toys (no productivity gains) that I say it is the price of the hardware and not the limitations of the iPadOS that are holding it back. 30% cheaper will be a lot better.
@habibcham always great when everything comes out at once. 😁
A pet peeve of mine is when iOS comes out and there’s days or weeks to wait until watchOS.
Let's see how this ages: The first Apple device that bridges the artificial gap between iPadOS and macOS will be called "iPad Studio" and use a hybrid operating system that behaves lika tablet and runs mainly iPadOS apps when no keyboard with trackpad is present and runs macOS apps when a keyboard with trackpad is attached.
My M1 iPad Pro is only three years old so I won’t be updating this year but as someone who has chosen the iPad as a primary computer of course I’m interested in where the hardware and OS are going. I post often that I think most Apple pundits are wrong on the iPad most of the time because they want it to be a Mac. It’s not and I hope it never is. In today’s issue of his newsletter Mark Gurman’s, Apple Should Turn iPad Into Laptop ...
@tantramar@dennyhenke Absolutely. I’m all in favor of improving iPadOS. What irks me is the idea that macOS is the goal. Microsoft has been trying to marry the tablet to their desktop interface for 20+ years. It doesn’t work. If it did, it would’ve worked.
@Sumocat@dennyhenke Yeah; like lots of people, I fell into the trap of trying to make a laptop out of my iPad Pro. I’ve enjoyed it so much more since giving that up and embracing its strengths.
Now that Apple is forced to open their mobile operating systems for third party devs in an unprecedented manner, can we work on an indie foss podcatcher that does not suck?
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The EU declares Apple's iPadOS as a 'gatekeeper' due to its vast app ecosystem, locking in businesses like yours or users like you.
The European Union's designation of Apple's iPadOS as a "gatekeeper" signals a significant win for small businesses and startup owners in fostering a fair digital marketplace.
This move further underscores the EU's commitment to regulating tech giants such as Apple and gives smaller businesses the opportunity to thrive and innovate.
Apple must now comply with the DMA within 6 months. Our CEO, @jon, welcomes this, noting that iPads and iPhones share the same ecosystem and that Apple controls both as the gatekeeper.
The Commission said both business and end users are “locked-in” to #Apple’s #iPadOS ecosystem due to its size and user base, which it said the company leverages to disincentivize users from switching to competitors, giving Apple six months to ensure full compliance. #DMA
SwiftUI question: I have a NavigationSplitView that shows, depending on device and orientation, as split view or as a stack view. How can I see which mode it is in?
It is not columnVisibility as that only determines how it is displayed in split view mode, not split vs. stack.
iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years
Imagine making a sophisticated piece of hardware, and yet the news that keeps popping up is how that hardware is missing calculator functions. So much so, that when you do decide to finally make a calculator app for your hardware, it's apparently news.
Can't tell whether this is hilarious or depressing.
Ich liebe FreeForm auf dem iPad. Mich stört einzig, dass man nicht automatisiert per Shortcut ein neues Blatt anlegen UND ihm auch einen Namen geben kann. Aktuell lege ich mir manuell für jeden Tag ein Blatt an und skribbele den ganzen Tag darauf rum - Notizen, Ideen, kleine Zeichnungen zur Ablenkung in langweiligen Meetings, etc. pp. Abends erfolgt dann ein kleines Review, die Todo-App wird gefüllt und relevante Notizen übertragen.