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CHRIS VELAZCO: Apple just
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for iOS 13 and macOS
Catalina and maybe,

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most importantly, iPadOS.

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And I say that knowing
full well that it's

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basically just a tablet-tuned
version of iOS 13.

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What's really interesting here
is that Apple has achieved

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two goals at the same time.

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They've preserved that
classic iPad experience

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for people who
just want to watch

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movies and browse the web.

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And that's going to be fine.

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In fact, it's going to
be better in some ways,

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which we'll get to.

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But more importantly, for people
who really want to try and use

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an iPad for work,
like those Pro users

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who might want to
buy an iPad Pro,

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there are enough changes
here that actually might make

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an iPad Pro a viable option.

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Let's take a closer look.

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First, I think we should really
quickly run through the look

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and feel of the iPadOS.

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All of the stuff
that's in iOS 13

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that made it such a unique
design experience is here, too.

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You've got the dark mode.

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You've got the
revamped volume hub.

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It works just fine on
these bigger screens, too.

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What's really
interesting is Apple's

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realized-- you know what?

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There's always been
a kind of dead space.

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Let's really make use of that.

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So you can now
squeeze up to 30 apps,

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not including apps in the dock,
onto a single home screen.

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That's up from 20 in
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And to also really make use
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Apple is also giving
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to lock your Today widgets
directly to the side

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of your home screen.

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That might not sound like a huge
deal, but if you're like me,

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and you like having quick access
to breaking news and stock

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prices and your to-do list--

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which is more important to
me than maybe anything else

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I've just mentioned-- having
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screen is a game changer.

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This revamped design is
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of Apple's changes here.

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I personally find the tweaks
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much more valuable.

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Just like with earlier
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you can multitask
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Slide Over and Split View.

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The way Slide Over works is
you drag an app from your dock

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over to the side of
the screen, and that

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forces it to run in
a narrow window that

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floats on top of another app.

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So if you're like me, you're
probably watching YouTube,

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and you want to
look up some lyrics.

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You drag Safari over and
get that nice floating

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window for really quick
access to extra context.

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The big difference
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you can now have multiple
apps running in Slide Over.

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So if you need Slack and
Gmail and Safari going,

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you can drag each of them into
that floating window and swipe

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through them very
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the bottom of the screen.

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In a way, Apple just kind
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quick apps switching
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and it's a lot more
helpful than you'd think.

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I should also point out
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from the bottom of
that, you'll actually

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be able to see all of your
app slices in one place,

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so it's much easier
to jump in and bring

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up whatever extra context you
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The second main tool for
multitasking is Split View,

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and it works the same way
mechanically, at least.

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You grab an app from the dock.

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You drag it over to one side of
the screen, and it'll divide.

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So you have two apps
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It's always worked
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needed slightly more
detailed views of two apps

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at the same time.

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But what's really
interesting about iPadOS

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is you can now drag
elements from one app

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and into that secondary space.

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Effectively, you've got two
windows running the same app.

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I know what of you are thinking.

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What good is that?

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At this point, because third
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embraced it yet, you
might not notice it,

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but it is genuinely
helpful at times.

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If you're surfing the web
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and want to open up a new page
without giving up what you're

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currently looking at, you can
grab a link from Google search

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results over to the
side of the screen,

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and it'll open in a secondary
app window, no problem.

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It's one of those tweaks
that I didn't think

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I would find particularly
valuable going into it,

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but now that I've gotten used
to it, I can't give it up.

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That said, it isn't
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When I hold an iPad
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and I'm just scrolling
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I find it's easier than it
should be to grab something

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by accident and open it up
in a separate window, which

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immediately puts me in
the mindset of well, damn,

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how do I close this thing again?

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Apple can probably play
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and get it feeling a lot better.

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But the core functionality
works and, frankly, I'm

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glad it's here.

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For me, though, some of the
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are basically just
ways Apple has

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coerced it into running
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like a traditional computer.

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Take browsing and
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Apple talked up
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in Safari at WWDC for quite a
while, and with good reason.

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I've never been
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on Safari to give me exactly the
version of a website I wanted.

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Sometimes I would get the
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great if that's what I need.

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Other times, it would
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And you can get it to show you
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but that takes extra
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be required, honestly.

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That's not the case anymore.

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Every web page I've loaded on
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iPad Pro running
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showed me the desktop version.

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Even better, all of the web apps
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that I can never really
count on using in Safari

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and iPads has in the past,
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Google Apps are probably
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We use Google Docs.

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We use Google Sheets, Gmail.

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All of that stuff plays a
really important role in making

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sure stuff happens
at Engadget, and I've

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been able to interface with
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directly in Safari, perfectly.

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It takes a little bit of getting
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instead of clicking and kind
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a bit of time, but I'm honestly
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this works as well as it does.

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One of the other ways Apple has
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act a little bit more like a
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that it handles Files.

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If you're a longtime iPad user
and you've used the Files app

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before, you'll know that you
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on your device
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and manage things fairly well
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but you could never create
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and put files on your iPad.

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That is no longer the case.

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I spent the last three days
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and creating folders
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because it's got a
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I've got to use it somehow,
and I've just been moving stuff

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back and forth A, because I can,
and B, because I would prefer

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having my stuff in multiple
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Your specific scenario might
be a little bit different.

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And there's a pretty good chance
that if you're watching this,

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you actually won't
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It kind of runs
counter to what Apple

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has trained us to believe the
iPad had should be able to do.

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That said, if you're
a Pro customer

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and want to be able to make
full use of the storage

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that you paid for,
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The only hiccup
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is that Apple says you can
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to an iPad Pro or
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but the one USB
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did not map, for
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It drew power from
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It spun up the way
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but it just never
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And I'm still actually not
sure what that's about.

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The list of new updates,
frankly, goes on for a while.

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There are a lot of
pencil improvements,

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if you're an Apple
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Latency is said to have
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milliseconds, which for those
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just about half of
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see out of the
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which sounds pretty impressive.

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I haven't noticed any really
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an artist, that'll
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as you're doodling on screen.

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I should also point
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change with the Apple pencil
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If you swipe in from the sides
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iPadOS will take a screenshot
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start marking up, which is
really nice for quickly getting

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stuff out there and
sending it to people who

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might need this information.

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There's also a side card, which
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either as a graphics tablet or
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when it's connected via USB-C.
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I did not have a spare Mac
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to the public beta gods, but
our colleague Dana Wollman does,

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and she has her full impressions
in her macOS Catalina

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beta story on Engadget.

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So check that out
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Oh, and just because I feel
like I should point out,

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yes, you can use a
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Here's what you have
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It's actually part of
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called Assistive Touch.

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And iPadOS, even though
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in a lot of very valuable
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handle mice all that well.

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I've tried it with a
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The pairing process was
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found the right settings.

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And you can even customize
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got a bunch of extras.

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But at least in my case,
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to adjust the
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the cursor just sort of
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even while I was
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It's useful to an extent,
but if you're counting

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on using this feature on
the daily, just don't.

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Between the strong foundational
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in iOS 13 and all of
the very, very helpful

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iPad-specific tweaks that
you'll find in iPadOS,

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I don't think there's
ever been a better

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time to be an iPad person.

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It doesn't hurt that Google
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of the tablet race, leaving
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out there really
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to making good tablets.

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Because iPadOS contains so
many changes from the very

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subtle to the sweeping in scope,
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here for everybody.

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And for Apple, a company
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between different priorities
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the ability to please
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is really important
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that I haven't seen in a while.

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This is a big update,
and we're going

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to continue to dig
into what it means

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right up until the official
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So stay tuned for more,
and thanks for watching.

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