the as-yet-unreleased app are said to have taken
issue with the omission of key features, Gruber
insists that Adobe engineers “have plans to add
features iteratively on an aggressive schedule”.
Gruber added that, rather than simply a “port”
of the familiar Photoshop software, the iPad
version will represent “a rethinking of the app
for modern UI surfaces”. Consequently, we can
expect the software to be noticeably different,
but still intuitive to use. By the time you read
this, Adobe may have already unveiled an
iPad version of its graphic design software
Illustrator, as Bloomberg reported in October
that the developer planned to preview this at
November’s Adobe MAX conference.
Traditionally, the iPad’s operating system has
been built on the core of iOS, and that hasn’t
changed with iPadOS. For this reason, it still gets
many major features of iOS 13 – including the
new system-wide Dark Mode. Microsoft has acted
quickly on this, adding Dark Mode support
to its Office apps for both iPhone and iPad.
Similarly, the Redmond corporation has updated
its OneDrive app on iPad to enable the app to be
shown in multiple windows in Split View.
It’s clear, then, that developers are already taking
notice of opportunities to utilize the professional
potential of not only iPads, but also iPadOS itself.
This is before we acknowledge the Sidecar feature
- which, as we previously detailed in a recent
issue of the magazine, allows an iPad to serve as a
second external display for the Mac and expand
the working space for Mac productivity apps.
Sidecar is, however, only available with iPads that
support the Apple Pencil.