Ali promises his thoughts on how the iPad fits into his life once iPadOS comes out (2019)
promise · status: open (no report in 2019–2024) · last event: promised (2019-06-05) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali predicts that iPadOS, out in autumn 2019, will let the iPad replace a laptop for a lot of people (2019)
About: iPadOS, iPad
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-05 | promised | Ali promises that as soon as iPadOS comes out and he has tinkered with it, he will give his thoughts on how the iPad fits into his life. | My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 00:05:11 |
What is said about it
16 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says the changes Apple announced for the iPad with iPadOS at WWDC 2019 all seem aimed at making the iPad more of a replacement for the MacBook. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali admits the main reason he uses split screen on the iPad is pretending to take notes in a lecture in one window while browsing Reddit in the other. (playful) — 00:00:29
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali: With iPadOS, Ali says, users will finally be able to plug external drives into the iPad. — 00:01:08
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says he cannot use his iPad for photo or video editing because, being cheap, he bought the 64 GB version, on which he cannot edit raw photos or video at all. — 00:01:08
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says iPadOS is apparently going to completely revamp text editing on the iPad. (hedged) — 00:01:44
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali finds text editing on the iPad a pain in 2019: moving the cursor around to select text is fiddly. — 00:01:44
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says the revamped text editing in iPadOS makes the iPad more legitimate for actually writing, without frustration every time. — 00:02:13
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says iPadOS will introduce more keyboard shortcuts in autumn 2019. — 00:02:13
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali hopes the new keyboard shortcuts in iPadOS will bring the iPad closer to a MacBook Pro in efficiency of action and economy of motion. (hedged) — 00:02:42
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says full desktop web browsing is coming to Safari on the iPad with iPadOS. — 00:03:04
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali: Safari on the iPad counts as a mobile browser in 2019, which Ali says mostly makes no difference unless you are editing a website with a tool such as Ghost, WordPress or Squarespace. — 00:03:04
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says the new Sidecar feature is coming to iPadOS and macOS Catalina in autumn 2019. — 00:03:33
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali has tried earlier ways of using an iPad as a second display for a Mac, such as Duet, but they never worked perfectly and he never stuck with them. — 00:03:33
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali hopes Sidecar will let him set the MacBook and iPad down in a library or coffee shop and feel more of a boss working on two displays. (hedged) — 00:03:33
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says iPadOS and the new iOS will apparently let two pairs of AirPods connect to one device to watch the same thing. (hedged) — 00:04:12
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali jokes that AirPods sharing is no use to him yet, but perhaps one day, once married, he and his future wife will have date nights watching an iPad on the sofa. (playful, hedged) — 00:04:42