A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro

Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by nunez on Saturday December 17, 2016 @09:50AM (#13200895)

I unsuccessfully tried using the iPad as a full-fledged computer for two months. It did not work out. Much of the web still assumes that you're using a mouse. You don't realize this until you try browsing the web with the iPad. Also, using SSH,even with Panic, was not as seamless as it seemed. There was much screen refreshing. I really missed having a mouse.

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by evilduck on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:49PM (#13201589)

Panic's Prompt is slick, but Blink Shell has mosh built in, making it a far superior terminal for iOS.

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by berntb on Saturday December 17, 2016 @10:26AM (#13201012)

>> Much of the web still assumes that you're using a mouse.

Not everything is mobile friendly yet, but do you really meet many mobile unfriendly web sites?

Most problems I have on phone/tablet are company internal products, where they literally designed the UI before the iPhone existed.

I haven't tried those 2-apps-on-the-screen things with iPad Pro. Maybe it works well enough so I could work. Maybe.

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by chairmanwow on Saturday December 17, 2016 @11:07AM (#13201146)

There are many, many subtle web interactions that happen on ':hover' when you are browsing the web. It can make new websites difficult to manage whenever you aren't quite sure what to do.

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by berntb on Saturday December 17, 2016 @11:23AM (#13201210)

Of course. But my point was that most of the modern web seems to be mobile friendly or even "mobile first". (And hence not depend on effects being able to use effects like that).

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by givinguflac on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:11PM (#13201415)

I've never had an issue with hover interactions personally, but perhaps you use some website I don't visit. Hover text is available by long tapping, and every hover action I've ever come across works as expected simply by tapping on it. Sounds like there's something out there you use that needs a design update.

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by cwyers on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:31PM (#13201506)

You can get a USB mouse, can't you?

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by macintux on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:48PM (#13201581)

iOS has no cursor. I suppose a mouse might be viable for remote desktop environments, but there's nothing to move with a mouse in the OS itself.

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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro by nunez on Saturday December 17, 2016 @07:03PM (#13203502)

iOS doesn't have a mouse driver, so no, unfortunately :(

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