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Huh now that's interesting. It turns out that a near-15-inch screen is big enough for Safari on the iPad to be happy with two tabs side-by-side as well as another app. 🤨 I'm sure that's just a happy accident… The OS doesn't need much work to fill that screen res, either pic.twitter.com/un8lTkp5hw
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Steve Troughton-Smith
@stroughtonsmith
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It's very clear that you could go to near 15" without having to redesign iOS. Software-wise, everything basically just works already. A 15" slot in the lineup would match Mac portables, and caters to Apple's profit margins & ever-increasing price points. It makes too much sense
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Steve Troughton-Smith
@stroughtonsmith
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I think it would be crazy *not* to expand to a larger iPad size as we move towards a shared Marzipan world w/ tabbed windowing, USB-C & more and more pro-level apps. As a product, I think it ticks all the 'should we do this?' boxes and moves into 'when should we do this?' instead
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Steve Troughton-Smith
@stroughtonsmith
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You could go beyond 15" with iPad, but then you start to need bigger changes to iOS (like a floating keyboard), and current side-by-side sizes become a little ridiculous to have filling the screen height. 15" could be done with iOS as we know it today without things getting weird
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Kontra
@counternotions
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Oct 31 |
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Yeah, why should iPad mobile computing stop at 15" or 30" or 90"?! pic.twitter.com/XNIvDnF383
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Steve Troughton-Smith
@stroughtonsmith
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Oct 31 |
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Great input 😛
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johnmin
@min85da
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Nov 11 |
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After 15” ipad, you guys will be asking 21, 27” soon
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Steve Troughton-Smith
@stroughtonsmith
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Nov 11 |
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yes, I want a desktop one too
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A. Llamas
@_ALlamas
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Nov 1 |
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Uh....*Slowly hides schematics for a 17” iPad Pro, under the stack of papers*
*Twiddles thumbs whirl whistling*
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Jon
@jonnyb098
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Nov 11 |
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So many apps still don’t properly take advantage of the iPad screen as it is on the 12.9. Apple needs to get rid of the obnoxious looking icons grid layout on the 12.9. I know it supposed to happen in iOS 13, but many are still holding their breath for a dark mode on iOS.
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Thomas (Tom) Vidal
@ThomasVidal
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Nov 14 |
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I agree that too many apps do not take advantage of the #iPad’s screen size. That’s my biggest complaint with developers: many of them just scale up apps. With most apps, the iPad screen could be used to show more information, provide more tools, or do other interesting things.
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Raf Sarmento
@RafSarmento
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Nov 11 |
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I found an Instagram account called @futureconversion (they recently did reset their IG) and I talked to them about their “leak” that a 14,7 inches iPad Pro is in the works for 2019... of course it’s just a veeeery long shot rumor, but it seems it makes sense after all.
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Raf Sarmento
@RafSarmento
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Nov 11 |
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And if the 14,7 number would be correct, maybe it can still fit all the windowing etc as in your 14,9 projection?
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chaki
@charlesdlcruz
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Nov 12 |
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A bigger iPad Pro makes sense for 2019 when the current lineup don’t really need a refresh. All it needs is iOS to make it look brand new and I believe there’s a LOT of computer-like aspects a bigger iOS could improve upon. Touchpad support looks inevitable and so is Thunderbolt.
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2MInT🌍☮🚢🌈❤️ MrUNIMOG
@UNIMOGd
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The iPad Pro doesn't have a Thunderbolt controller tho. Thunderbolt can't be added via a software update.
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chaki
@charlesdlcruz
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Nov 15 |
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Yeah sorryy I was actually thinking if they'd refresh its hardware somehow the only things left are stuff like:
Thunderbolt 3 (but doesnt that require intel?)
Some sort of ingress protection
Or other minor stuff
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2MInT🌍☮🚢🌈❤️ MrUNIMOG
@UNIMOGd
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Nov 15 |
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It would need an ARM compatible Thunderbolt controller, but that’s something Apple will need anyway when Macs start moving to in-house SoCs.
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chaki
@charlesdlcruz
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Nov 15 |
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Interesting. Now I'm curious how iOS and ARM handles their version of PCIE lanes
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2MInT🌍☮🚢🌈❤️ MrUNIMOG
@UNIMOGd
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Nov 15 |
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It seems Apple’s SoCs have included a PCIe bus since at least the A8.
They also happen to look for a PCIe integration engineer for future SoC designs right now: jobs.apple.com/de-de/details/…
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Dr Doug
@drBDOUG
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Nov 13 |
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It would be perfect for reading research papers in A4 format size
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Ben Ward
@benw__
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Nov 1 |
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Altered keyboard design on the new iPad?
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