OPINION
For all that’s new in iPadOS, there isn’t anything
about it that’s very inventive. Multiple apps in Slide
Overisbasicallya repurposedhomeindicatortocycle
throughextremelytallscreens,whileFilesandflash
drive support seem more like grease for the squeaky
wheel. And while hidden mouse support might be
gettinglotsofattention(seepage 70 ), it seemslike
a stop-gapsolution.Afteryearsofdenyingusersany
inputmethodbesidestouch,Applebuiltarudimentary
cursorwithmousesupportintoiPadOS.Soifyou
were hoping that Apple was working on a new input
mechanismthatbreakstheiPadfreeofitsshackles,
you gotacircularcursor.
But you needn’t turn on the AssistiveTouch toggle in
the Accessibility settings to see iPadOS’s potential. If
only Apple would stop giving us what it thinks we want
and start giving us what we don’t even know we need.