Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
by toomanybeersies on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:26AM
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I used to work for a company developing a POS system for the iPad (not Vend).
One of the main drawcards of using an iPad or other tablet for a POS kiosk is that they're significantly cheaper than an actual designed for purpose touch screen. Those big bulky touch screens are incredibly expensive, especially for what they are, they can cost up to $2000 and still only come with an i3 and 8 GB of RAM.
Same for musicians: many of us have an iPad for displaying scores due the superiority of the screen legibility in varying environments, and app support. I use mine almost exclusively for piano scores - I couldn't live without it. Doubling as a Netflix host on flights is a bonus.
Definitely, but I like to write on my scores which I can’t do on my iPad.
The big iPad Pro made a difference here too. The older iPads so t get enough music on the screen.
> but I like to write on my scores which I can’t do on my iPad.
What? Annotating scores is a main use for me. I do it constantly. It's something the ipad is great at.
What program do you use? Do you have an iPad that supports a pencil? How is it?
I use https://forscore.co/ . Only very old iPads don't support pencil, I believe.
Not sure about the app, but newer iPads support Apple Pencil. It's a bit expensive, but definitely worth it.
Yeah, one of the primary uses of my iPad was learning to read music.
We have an iPad pro at work & a piece of me dies thinking that such a powerful device will never run anything but iOS.
You realize that one of the reasons the device feels so powerful is that it runs iOS. A 5x specified Mac Pro doesn’t have the feel of the iPad.
Lets not get caught up unduly, any light OS would perform as well on the hardware, there's no magic between iOS and the ipad hardware.
The level of polish and integration between hardware and software with Apple is almost “magical” imho. Or at least very praiseworthy.
Compared to typical Windows laptop trackpads or most Android phones’ janky scrolling, Apple does a much better job getting better performance out of their hardware.
An iPad Pro doesn’t feel powerful, but if you compare its specs to a 10-year-old PC, it should.
I'm sure taking on Windows CE was exactly what was meant by that quote :p
Well, they did. iPads are now replacing POS registers and kiosks. Although a part of me dies when I see iPad Pros being used for this, because it’s so powerful and capable yet being used as a big touch monitor.