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by hmottestad 605 days ago
I don’t think the iPad was ignored. Otherwise they wouldn’t have introduced the iPad Pro with an SoC that was newer than any other Apple product and with a screen that none of the competitors are using.

iPadOS does feel like it’s missing a lot of love. I can’t fathom why stage manager doesn’t have a way to show all the apps that are open at the same time. I’ve had to drag apps to the side to get to the one that is underneath. Not to speak of how hard it is to use an iPad for dev work. I don’t want to have to remote into a server and use a terminal and learn vim. I’ve tried VSCode hosted on GitHub through Safari and it’s absolutely terrible.
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walterbell 605 days ago
> introduced the iPad Pro with an SoC that was newer than any other Apple product and with a screen that none of the competitors are using.

Whether intentional or not, the expensive flagship M4 iPad Pro served as a low-volume developer hardware preview for upcoming M4 Macbooks, providing months of early access for developers to work with the latest silicon.

iPad users have been sadly ignored for years, except for a brief period of Microsoft Surface competition. At this point, iPad Pro can only be saved by EU regulators or change in Apple leadership. There is no meaningful competition and Qualcomm has stumbled again.

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hmottestad 604 days ago
The differences between the M3 and M4 aren't that big are they? The GPU is unchanged and the core architecture is slightly adjusted. Biggest difference is the increased clock speed.
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