[VIDEO] This is simply great. Rene Ritchie doing what he does best, tell a story with clips and voiceover.
This is fun to watch and, in my opinion, one of the best pieces Rene has ever done. Video embedded in the main Loop post.
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Using an iPad Pro to create posters for Apple TV+ shows
[VIDEO] These two videos, released yesterday by Apple, act as ads for both Apple TV+ and the iPad Pro (videos embedded in main Loop post). They also serve to highlight artists and their specific techniques.
Some great artwork. Watching these two, it struck me how incredibly complex these posters are, how many layers they each had.
I’m told that that “layers rendering slowly” effect is a feature of Procreate, gives the artist a chance to see all the elements fall into place, something the iPad Pro renders too quickly to see without help.
Desktop-class Safari for iPad: A hands-on look at the difference the iPadOS update makes to Apple’s browser
John Voorhees, MacStories:
> With the release of iPadOS 13, Safari took a big step forward as a ‘desktop-class’ browser with a wide variety of enhancements that collectively eliminate a long list of complaints leveled against the app in the past. Safari’s ability to dynamically adjust the viewport to fit the iPad’s screen, enhanced support for pointer events, hardware-accelerated scrolling of frames and other regions of a webpage, along with other under-the-hood changes add up to a genuinely new browsing experience that has made work in sophisticated web apps like Mailchimp a viable option for the first time.
Great read. John Voorhees uses a specific use case to make clear the value of desktop Safari on iPadOS 13. To me, this is one of the tethers keeping me tied to my Mac falling away.
How to activate and use Hot Corners on the iPad
[VIDEO] Peter Cohen, Harris Craycraft, iDownloadBlog:
> iPadOS 13.3 adds Hot Corners, a new feature that works with a Bluetooth mouse. You can set up the corners of your iPad screen to automate actions just like you can on the Mac. Learn how it works in this short video.
Great feature, nicely detailed in the video embedded in the main Loop post.
Steve Jobs was right: Smartphones and tablets killed the PC
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times:
> I got an iPad Pro recently, and I’ve fallen madly in love with it.
And:
> Apple unveiled a new 16-inch MacBook with a revamped keyboard on Wednesday, good news for the many Apple lovers who’ve been grumbling about the company’s lackluster slate of recent Macs. But I think the iPad is already beginning to eclipse the traditional personal computer. In the four months I’ve had this latest model, the iPad Pro has eaten into the time I spend on my phone and my old-school laptop and desktop. Among other things, I now research and write just about every column using an iPad.
And:
> In one of his last interviews before his death in 2011, Jobs declared the iPad to be the future of computing. “PCs are going to be like trucks,” he told the journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg — meaning the traditional Mac and Windows machines would still be around, but like big rigs, they’d be used by a small set of power users for a dwindling set of specific, high-power tasks. The “cars” of the tech industry, as Jobs saw it, would be phones and tablets.
That opening line really caught me by surprise. Not used to such Apple praise from The New York Times. Interesting read, fair take on the iPad’s impact on the PC market.