1: Copying
Android
Home Screen Widgets,
App Library and App
Clips are all very nice,
but let’s not pretend
they’re new. Android
users have enjoyed
similar features for
years. Steve Jobs
famously said, ‘We have
always been shameless
about stealing great
ideas,” and it seems his
successors are of a
similar mind.
4: Nothing Breathtakingly New
Let’s be honest. For all their strengths, there was nothing that
was both new and exciting in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. As
mentioned before, the Home screen changes and App Clips are
great, but they’re lifted from Android OS. The new Translate app
is just Apple’s version of the existing Google Translate app too.
That’s not to say we’re not getting significant improvements. Siri
has taken a significant leap forward, for example, and with Apple
bringing out its own Translate app, we’ll see some great
integration with other Apple apps. But where’s the new stuff?
Perhaps it’s still under wraps, waiting for the iPhone 12 and its
expected LiDAR scanner.
8 Things That Concern Us
Not everything announced has us jumping around in excitement.
2: App Icon Problem
There’s a curious hiccup in the early builds of
iOS/iPadOS 14. If you add a Home Screen
Widget to the Home screen and delete the
app icon for the app in question, there’s no
easy way of getting it back. For example, if
you add a Calendar widget to the Home
screen and remove the Calendar icon, but
later want it back, you can’t restore it from the
App Store because the app is still installed
and you can’t drag it from the App Library
either. Instead you have to reset the Home
screen layout from the Settings app. This is
annoying, and we hope it’s fixed soon.
3: No Integrated
Monitor Support
If you have a Mac notebook, you can plug it into an external
display and use that screen as your monitor. Wouldn’t it be
great if you could also do this with Apple’s mobile devices?
As things are, you can plug your iPad into an external display
and use it as a second, ‘presentation’ screen, or have it
mirror what’s on your iPad. Either way, you probably get
black borders left and right. Don’t you wish you could simply
plug your iPad – or even your iPhone – into a monitor and
use it instead of the built-in screen? Apps could display
natively, the extra space would be great for creative work
and as the iPhone and iPad gain full mouse and keyboard
support with OS 14, you could ‘dock’ your mobile device
when at your desk and use it as a desktop computer.
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