iPad

Apple, iPads, and baseball in the time of COVID-19

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Jabari Young, CNBC:

> As part of the league’s Covid-19 health and safety protocols, MLB said it would ban traditional video stations shared throughout clubhouses. The league took advantage of its 2016 partnership with Apple to expand the dugout iPad program. It will now distribute 15 iPads to each team for players and staff to dissect performances and additional team content like scouting reports.

Far more interesting to me is the fact that teams will pump in fake crowd noise so the players, as well as viewers at home, can get a sense of how excited the crowds would be if they existed.

If you made it this far, you might be interested in knowing that Opening Day is tomorrow (Thursday), with the World Champion Nationals vs the Yankees at 7p ET and the Giants vs the Dodgers at 7p PT.

Someone tell Siri.

iPadOS 14, Apple Pencil, and Scribble in action

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[VIDEO] I’ve been playing with Apple Pencil and Scribble since the first iPadOS 14 beta dropped. One thing I’d love to find is an exhaustive list of Scribble gestures.

The video (embedded in the main Loop post), from iDownloadBlog is an excellent starting point. But I’m convinced there are more gestures than this.

At the very least, there are subtleties, like double-tap and triple-tap (to select a word and paragraph), as well as machine learning elements at work to detect addresses, phone numbers, etc. that we’ve always seen in typed text.

I find Scribble fun and fascinating. If you’ve got a non-critical iPad and an Apple Pencil (even first gen), consider diving in to the public beta when it drops, purely to play with this amazing tech.

How to connect external storage to iPad & iPhone

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OSXDaily:

> This article is going to demonstrate how to use and connect external storage drives to iPhone or iPad, including external hard disks, USB flash drives, SD cards, and other common storage formats. You’ll then have direct access to the files on those storage mediums, right from iOS or iPadOS.

Good writeup. Worth bookmarking and passing along.

Some iPad Pro users complaining that the Magic Keyboard causes excessive battery drain

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Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac:

> A number of users are now airing their frustrations about battery life issues. A slice of Magic Keyboard owners are noticing that their iPad’s battery drops quickly when using the keyboard with the backlight enabled, and some reports indicate battery drain problems arise even when the iPad is idle and not in use.

I’ve seen a good number of people complain about this on Twitter. Hopefully, this is fixable with a software/firmware patch.

The amazing lever mechanism at the heart of the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard trackpad

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iFixit updated their iPad Pro Magic Keyboard teardown with a look underneath the trackpad.

Take a minute, follow the headline link, scroll about halfway down the page to that GIF showing the innards of the trackpad, with a finger pressing the switch to show how it works.

> What looks like multiple buttons in the X-ray is actually just one button and a simple, elegant lever system. The single button is at the center of the trackpad, where the mechanism is rigid. When you apply pressure near the center, whether top, middle, or bottom-center, you are directly pressing the button. Press near the top, bottom, or one of the corners, however, and the lever system comes into play, forcing the contact plate in the center upward to make a click happen.

To quote Phil Schiller, Can’t innovate anymore my ass!