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Building Apps across iPad and Mac with App Playgrounds
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If you aren’t following every little Apple announcement, you may have missed that in 2021 the company released an update to the Swift Playgrounds app that allowed for building apps on iPadOS. Swift Playgrounds, of course, is not Xcode, but provides a basic experience for creating applications that can run on iPadOS and iOS. One…
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Is The iPad Lineup Bloated?
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Today, Mark Gurman provided some slightly updated timing on when the next set of new iPads is going to launch. We’re looking at two iPad Pros and two iPad Airs around the March/April time frame, which is exciting. There were a variety of reactions on social media, one being the somewhat familiar refrain of there’s…
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iPad Misconceptions: File-First vs App-First
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This is the first in what will likely be a series of writings I’ve been thinking about doing for some time. I come across a lot of what I’m calling “iPad Misconceptions” on Reddit and other social media. Some of these are are based on outdated information, and some are just flat out wrong. But…
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Upcoming iPad Updates : More than just OLED
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ETNews offers additional information on what we can look forward to from the iPad line in 2024 and beyond. Let’s look at what they report: OLED displays for iPad Mini and iPad Air in 2026: If this report is true, then Apple won’t be keeping OLED as a Pro differentiator for too terribly long, which…
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iPadOS 18 To Be A Big Update?
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Bloomberg reports that Apple executives intend for iPadOS/iOS 18 to be an “ambitious and compelling” release. The article implies that there is a bigger software feature push because iPhone 16 won’t be very interesting. I’m not sure those two things are necessarily related, but I’m certainly ready for another big feature release OS. Its not…
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The State of Software Development on iPad in 2023
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Software development on the iPad is….interesting. It is one of the few remaining tasks that is still prohibitively difficult, if not completely impossible, on iPadOS. Yet there remains a demand for enabling robust software creation tools on iPadOS. The most productive development tool available on iPadOS is Apple’s Swift Playgrounds app. Presented as an educational…
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How important is the next Surface Pro?
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The Microsoft Surface has long held a unique position in the tablet market. While people debate whether or not Apple ever intended on the iPad replacing laptops (I don’t recall them ever saying that), Microsoft was very clear from the beginning about what Surface was. “The Tablet That Can Replace Your Laptop” was the marketing…
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Total iPad refresh in 2024
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Per the latest newsletter from Mark Gurman, Apple will be upgrading every iPad in 2024. 2023 has been the first year in the product’s history that there were no hardware updates. It’s a little surprising, but as many people love to point out the “problem” with the iPad isn’t hardware, so I guess a year…
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Android Tablets: Where do they fit?
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I love the tablet form factor. In almost every futuristic sci-fi fantasy show I watched growing up, people were more often using some form of tablet-y computer. This left a huge impact on me. And if you consider the modern slab smartphone to also be a kind of tablet, as I do, then most of…
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Thoughts on a 12.9 inch iPad Air
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With no iPad hardware releases so far in 2023, news of any new iPad hardware is reason for a least a little bit of excitement. The usual suspects are reporting that Apple is developing a 12.9 inch iPad Air that would presumably sit alongside the 10.9 inch model. I can already hear the tired complaints…
