Strange decision. It doesn't even seem like a design challenge to have the task bar on any side of the screen. I can't see any reason for such an easily avoidable limitation.
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You say that as if it's a good thing. In my opinion an overhaul of Explorer is long overdue.
Most of my apps are not in the dock. There should be an obvious way to initiate multi tasking that includes selecting any app on your iPad - maybe splitting/resizing your single full screen app by dragging from either side of the screen to reveal the app drawer, where one could select an app to fill the space. Of course there would be conflicts with existing gestures. Just thinking out loud here.
edit: Apparently that's how it works in iPadOS 15 [1]:
> Access to all apps
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> When you enter Split View, the app moves aside to reveal the Home Screen, giving you access to all Home Screen pages and the App Library.
In either case, it's still a problem. It's my impression that if you make the effort to actually customize and decline those options you'll have to do it repeatedly since very few sites will remember those choices - probably on purpose. Luckily uBlock Origin hides most of those annoying consent popups.
You can buy digital lossless audio files on countless stores. Sure, iTunes is a different scale compared to Bandcamp, but buying lossless digital audio files isn't exactly new.
Personally I buy and find all my music in lossless digital formats. Any release I want to have. Interestingly you may have a harder time finding very popular mainstream music in a lossless format.
Sure, if you don't have any use for iTunes or iOS FLAC is the obvious choice, but if you do use iTunes there's really no need to keep two formats around. Just use ALAC.
While most of us can't live in such a purpose-optimized room I think OP's point was that a bunch of high quality speakers in that very same auditorium might have yielded very similar results to your experience.
2TB Storage, 5G, keyboard and pen are all very much optional and not required to use an iPad Pro. If you want a laptop, simply buy a laptop.
Personally I'm much better off with a desktop + iPad Pro combo. When I need keyboard and mouse on the iPad my existing desktop input device can be paired with multiple devices. However that's rare occasion. Most of the time it's simply a much more mobile device than a laptop.
These are entry-level iMacs and the majority of potential buyers will be fine with the port selection. It's probably not worth delaying an important device like the iMac for such a relatively minor downside. That said, I'm personally waiting for the larger iMac (Pro?) which won't feature such limitations.
Are they? Not saying that this is the case here but recent elections (Trump) and referendums (Brexit) have shown that you can absolutely manipulate and mislead the masses. Again, not taking any sides here, but assuming that those decisions are well informed or won't be taken against their own interest seems naive to me.
> In Australia it's quite common to have phone/power/gas/insurance plans that are 1/2 year contracts, but to cancel it you pay a small fee.
> - I have a 1 year contract with my energy provider, the cancel fee is ~$45 and I must give them 20 days notice.
Depending on how small the fee is it sounds as if this renders the concept of a half (or full) year contract worthless.
> My phone has a 24 month plan, to cancel I pay any remaining phone payments, that's it
Doesn't paying the remaining payments mean that you actually pay the full price as agreed to when you signed up? If so, how is Adobe's cancelation fee not an improvement? It is smaller than the remaining payments after all.
> My point is Adobe could be upfront and clearer with the overall pricing, terms, renewals, and cancel fees — I don't think they are at all.
I still disagree. If I sign up for an annual subscription I have no expactation of getting out of it early. That's what the monthly subscription is for. If they offer a way to cancel early despite my annual commitment that's a bonus which can be advertised, but doesn't have to be (again, why should they? That's what the monthly subscription is for).
Apparently the early cancellation fee is 50% of your remaining subscription fees. In other words it's an improvement to the actual terms I signed up for when I agreed to be committed for 1 year. I dont see why Adobe needs to explicitely "warn" customers about an option that is actually beneficial to them (the users, not Adobe).
Highly compressed 4k. With enough bandwidth we could actually stream Bluray quality without compromises. Sure, it's probably not the first item on the list priorities but it's a needless limitation entirely due to lacking network infrastructure.
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Only from iOS to macOS, not the other way around - at least not with Safari on iOS (I don't use Firefox on iOS).
I'm not quite sure if it's even a mouse in the room. While it certainly is a problem for you and a niche group of like-minded users, the vast majority of Mac users, including me, simply don't care about Windows support.
Plus, there is good hardware to be found on the Windows side as well, so it isn't the end of the world in my opinion.
I don't think that's clear at all.
> * By pushing software updates optimized to new hardware with obvious regressions on older models.
New software can come with increased hardware requirements, yet customers want to benefit from new software. It's a compromise. You could simply not update if you're worried about that.
> I've been considering switching away from Apple hardware, not because of hardware quality, but because of software.
I'm sure software updates long after your device's release won't be a concern with the competition. You probably simply won't receive any.