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by AppleBananaPie 243 days ago
Do you use this as your main driver or just to check on things?

Just trying to imagine the workflow :)

I personally prefer a ~32" 4k screen for main work but I could see the convenience of an iPad to quickly remote in and check on stuff or maybe it's enough on it's own and I can learn from ya'll!
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vel0city 243 days ago
Por que no los dos?

Just dock your iPad in the office and get a desktop class experience. Pick it up and go and have your same apps and sessions and data anywhere.

Would be nice. It's the experience I had with a Surface but I get Windows isn't applicable to all users and workloads.

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ragazzina 242 days ago
> Just dock your iPad in the office

The fact that you can't turn off the iPad screen while it's docked drives me crazy.

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ahmeneeroe-v2 242 days ago
You can? As long as you have keyboard/mouse (which the Magic Keyboard qualifies as)
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ragazzina 242 days ago
Can you teach me how to do that? Every single Google result (and my own experience) say you can't.
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ahmeneeroe-v2 242 days ago
I recently got rid of my M1 iPad Pro, so I can't verify (and you might be right).

I recall: using stage manager, plugging into monitor via USB-C, going into Settings to disable mirroring/enable as external display, ensuring you have a mouse/keyboard connected to the iPad, and then just clicking the iPad screen off with the lock/unlock button.

lmk if that works!

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wildrhythms 242 days ago
The mouse driven experience on iPad OS is awful. And switching between apps leads to apps suspending themselves in the background when I don't want them to. And Safari aggressively suspends browser tabs on iPad so you lose any kind of web page state.
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AppleBananaPie 243 days ago
Yeah I need a local mac for builds / debugging :( Thanks for the info, I'll dream of better days ;)
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Terretta 242 days ago
Not really, Xcode Cloud will auto-build from an event hook on a GitHub commit.

You can use this to fix bugs in iOS apps from the park and try new TestFlight builds within minutes.

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AppleBananaPie 238 days ago
What I work on is much too large for those to be options :)
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Terretta 242 days ago
iPad Pro supports external 4K screen and you can drag and arrange windows.
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