Mouse Support In iOS 13 and iPadOS Includes USB and Bluetooth Devices (appleinsider.com) 69
TheFakeTimCook writes: According to an article on Apple Insider, both iOS and iPadOS 13 will contain mouse support for USB-C and Bluetooth pointing-devices, as part of the "Assistive Technology" features in those Operating Systems. "Apple confirmed both wired USB and Bluetooth mouse models will work in iOS and iPadOS, though the company has not compiled an official list of compatible devices," the report says. "That includes Apple's own Magic Mouse. Interestingly, [developer] Troughton-Smith on Monday discovered the feature works, at least unofficially, with Apple's Magic Trackpad. Apple [said] the 'foundation' of mouse support in iOS and iPadOS goes back 'a couple years.' Mouse integration can be enabled through the AssistiveTouch menu in iOS 13 and iPadOS, and will be available to users once those operating systems launch this fall."
Christ (Score:1)
Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave.
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Like all technology, it was invented by LEFTISTS! :D
Until roughly 1965, the US year of Peak Optimism. After that all technology was opposed by leftists, including much of what they had previously invented.
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and alert your red state CPS
Only a member of a rape culture (the all-sex-positive old Left) would blanket disparage protecting children from sex abuse.
Shouldn't you be celebrating your solidarity with the feminists?
It's WWDC week (Score:2)
I am pretty sure that Slashdot does limit Apple stories outside WWDC week.
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It wasn't Apple's big announcement.... it was tons of Apple haters who simply don't understand that the monitor wasn't made for their uses. Broadcast reference monitor are extremely expensive and Apple's offering is actually pretty reasonable.
But let's not the facts stop us.
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funny how "pro" means "needs an emoji touchbar and 16GB of ram will suffice" when it's on a laptop and "pro" means "if you didn't buy this monitor you'd buy a $50,000 monitor from Sony" when it's on a monitor.
as opposed to, you know, actual working professionals like programmers, web designers and photographers, who used to be the bread and butter of Apple's user base. If Apple is limiting themselves to selling a few hundred of the only monitor they sell they are going to lose a lot of mind share really dam
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If it is a small shop with a tight budget, LG has some cheaper panels. They even have some military grade monitors those are certified to be used in armoured trailers etc. If it is actually a professional live broadcast TV studio and there is monitor which is not a Sony, only excuse I can think of is that I somehow transported in my sleep to US and they have a new trade war, against Japan this time
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Your irrational feelings towards one company and their products are noted. Over there are people who buy what they want for the price they are willing to pay. Whether it be Apple or anyone else. Zombie Steve Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head.
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Are you upset that the Apple logo symbolizes 'Stupid' to a percentage of the tech-aware?
Do you defend Bose audio components from that same prejudice?
That's a nice windmill. Tilt at it some more, brother.
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Are you upset that the Apple logo symbolizes 'Stupid' to a percentage of the tech-aware?
But then, it is just the semi-educated who have that attitude.
I'll tell you how stupid the "tech-aware" can be: A while ago, I bought a TV recorder. With a terabyte hard drive, records hundreds of TV programs, so you can watch what you want when you want without extra payment. After a while, switching programs got slower and slower. There were dozens of threads on the internet of the "tech-aware" how they tried to fix the problem, all without success. I took mine to the store, said "it gets slower and sl
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Just hover around the Apple Store and you'll be safe.
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Are you upset that the Apple logo symbolizes 'Stupid' to a percentage of the tech-aware?
That's like people for whom a picture of the Kremlin dome triggers an anti-Russian reaction b'cos that's how they'd react to it during the Brezhnev era. Never mind that that country died 28 years ago and that its successor state is a shadow of its communist predecessor, despite looking formidable on a globe.
Back in the day, when there were companies like Silicon Graphics, Sun, HP (talking about the ex workstation division that gave us the HP 9000 workstations) et al and when Apple was struggling to make
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Have you tried.....not buying their products? When Sony released the first large-screen smartphone, I had no use for something that big - but I didn't whine that it was a lame product from a lame company.
Uh huh. It's a free country, go on pretending Zombie Steve is trying to force you to buy products you don't want to.
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Do you defend Bose audio components from that same prejudice?
You know that is another brand/field that bothers me seriously. People are paying big money for a brand like Bose for low quality but very nice to look at devices or like Marantz which has nothing to do with original product, only carrying brand. Such people love talking hours and hours and hours about gold cables that fed cones which no one bothered to check if they dried out or got oil residue on them from that fancy open kitchen, use analog devices with digital controls, or worst yet drive their analog
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Jobs is a hero of mine and I really hate what the company he left behind is turned into. OTOH it seems that you have a very irrational feeling towards Apple, as reacting very negatively towards constructive, relevant comments regarding Apple.
If you could stop
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Which is why you'd fire someone on the spot if they bought one of their products in a constructive, rational way.
So you put on your pedantic pants over the use of the term. Ok.
Binary thinking. How original. If you think Russiagate is bullshit, it mus
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If it is actually a professional live broadcast TV studio and there is monitor which is not a Sony, only excuse I can think of is that I somehow transported in my sleep to US and they have a new trade war, against Japan this time.
That or the owners still have a trade war against the company that pushed the XCP rootkit and sued Geohot.
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It's important to iPads as well. It's been hobbled as a laptop replacement due to lack of mouse support.
Pretty soon iPads are going to start looking like Microsoft Surface tablets.
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I'd say it's more important for iPad users than for anyone else. Android users have had adequate mouse support (both USB and bluetooth) for ages, since gingerbread at least, if not earlier. By default the RMB maps to back which may cause problems in some remote access contexts, but I haven't tried it on Pie or Q yet, maybe they've improved that finally. You can even sideload the bluetooth settings prefs onto a TV device like a Fire TV stick, pair a mouse and use it there. The only thing I wish they'd implem
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Why did they wait so long, though? It's like Apple actively didn't want mouse support of any kind.
I can see why they may not have wanted it on the iPhone, but on the iPad it always made sense for full-screen apps for which touch was never useful, especially if you had a keyboard connected.
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What I would have expected was for Apple to allow BT mouse pairing, but only made it available via a separate mouse API that developers had to specifically use if they wanted mouse support in their apps.
This would have allowed to keep the UI default touch-only, especially in Apple's apps, but allow third party apps (like RDP or other full-screen productivity stuff) to make use of them.
IMHO, the iPad would be a more compelling competitor to existing notebooks now and probably have a stronger following. I fe
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So is this Apple's equivalent of Microsoft's Surface books?
One key difference is that a Surface (other than the RT ones) can still run a compiler in a pinch, unlike an iPad.
Re: Catchup (Score:1)
Bring back support for 3.5" floppy drives (Score:5, Funny)
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3.5â floppy drives are supported - just get one with a USB connector on it.
There is also a Legacy Butthurt Adapter, which is a 3.5mm headset jack with a USB connector.
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I tried a USB floppy drive on my Android and it works fine. Also 8 years ago on my Samsung Galaxy S2 I was using a bluetooth mouse, or a corded keyboard with a USB OTG, nothing new here?!? Same on my old Nexus 7.
Feels like foreshadowing to me (Score:1)
iPads are already more powerful than what basic-level consumers really need in a computer. Given the change to a dedicated iPadOS, and now a clear path for non-touch based human input interfaces (bluetooth keyboards were already supported), this feels like they're setting up to release a new MacBook(not Pro) that is literally an iPad with detachable peripherals.
Don't worry, this Macbook will still cost $900.
The stand will be $999
Headline at 11. (Score:5, Funny)
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Technology that nobody uses - like USB back in the 90's before Apple threw all their chips in on the new bus before 2.0 speeds made it a no-brainer replacement for parallel and serial ports.
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This could be a larger sign of their strategy (Score:1, Insightful)
First of all, let me say that I came here to see the user comments because sometimes they are inciteful. Today is not that day. WTF is wrong with you guys with the libtard / reichtard bullsh*t? Just stop, it has nothing to do with this post on technology. There is no political spin here. Go take your petty fight somewhere else where we don't have to see it. Thank you.
That said, IMHO, this support of traditionally desktop peripherals for their tablets may be an important data point to explain which direction
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But in 64-bit territory, Apple is now completely independent of the processor, so switching bet
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MacOS apps that are 32 bit only are either: Apps where the developer hasn't bothered recompiling in the last five years, or apps that are still using 32-bit only technology, like the "Carbon" framework that was introduced in about 2001 in the first MacOS version.
Or C. They're Windows applications that someone is running in Wine.
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First of all, let me say that I came here to see the user comments because sometimes they are inciteful. Today is not that day. WTF is wrong with you guys with the libtard / reichtard bullsh*t? Just stop, it has nothing to do with this post on technology. There is no political spin here. Go take your petty fight somewhere else where we don't have to see it. Thank you.
I'm confused... You said you were looking for inciteful comments, and petty politics is one of the most inciteful subjects there is. Granted, the comments are not especially insightful, but one can't have everything.
Welcome to 2010 (Score:2, Insightful)
Just about every Android phone on the planet's been able to do this for nearly a decade.
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Just about every Android phone on the planet's been able to do this for nearly a decade.
Have you been using it ?
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Yes.
My phone takes a bluetooth mouse.
I have a bluetooth mouse that I use expressly for that purpose.
Think RDP control of your servers, on a phone, with only a tiny bluetooth mouse to carry around with you as extras. Also takes Bluetooth keyboards, and I have a combined Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad in the form of one of those cheap Chinese handheld keyboard/touchpad controllers.
Also has volume controls and pause buttons on that keyboard, which actually control the phone volume (for when it's streaming / Chro
Finally! (Score:2)
Now I can carry 2 dongles around to use mice with my devices.
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It would be one thing if worked on on the road all the time without physical access to my work or home desktops, but I am not.
Though you happen not to be in a situation conducive to work on the road, I am, and I imagine many others are. For example, in my carpool group, I am usually the first to finish grocery shopping. Carrying a compact laptop lets me work on hobby or contract programming projects while waiting for the others to finish. Likewise during a bus commute to and from my day job.