iOS 5- what would you like to see for iPad?

[Thphilli]

Would love to see active widgets and animations. I doubt it will happen though as those tend to be battery hogs over time and Apple is all about controlling their environment.

Widgets only have an effect on battery life when the home screen is displayed. So the overall effect on battery life is very minimal. Maybe 1-3% decline.

 

[Mountainbikermark]

Would love to see active widgets and animations. I doubt it will happen though as those tend to be battery hogs over time and Apple is all about controlling their environment.

I'd like for them to fix the wifi bug so I don't need the dang widget.


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[htowngator]

Would love to see active widgets and animations. I doubt it will happen though as those tend to be battery hogs over time and Apple is all about controlling their environment.

Widgets only have an effect on battery life when the home screen is displayed. So the overall effect on battery life is very minimal. Maybe 1-3% decline.

Incorrect.

Usually widgets are doing real time updates in the background so that when you turn on the screen they are up-to-date. Think of them as programs that are constantly running in memory, not shut down when you exit. This is why Android devices don't have the battery of an iPhone. When all you have to do is display icons and no active widgets which take memory and CPU cycles, you have better battery life.

 

[jtrosky]

We are talking about widgets on the LockScreen. The lock screen widgets do not update when the device is unlocked, so I don't believe they would cause any performance issues or have any effect on batter life. At least, I don't see any performance difference or battery life difference with SmartScreen installed (7 widgets on my lock screen) on my iPad 1.

The widgets do not update until I turn the device on (they are not constantly being updated when the device is off).

 

[Thphilli]

Incorrect.

Usually widgets are doing real time updates in the background so that when you turn on the screen they are up-to-date. Think of them as programs that are constantly running in memory, not shut down when you exit. This is why Android devices don't have the battery of an iPhone. When all you have to do is display icons and no active widgets which take memory and CPU cycles, you have better battery life.

Incorrect. A vast majority of widgets, id go as far as to say 99+%, have a set interval in which they update. They "run" in the background, as in their service is active, but they are not eating CPU cycles and are pretty much just chilling in the ram so that when the user switches back to the home screen they can be displayed instantly. Maybe there are SOME widgets which constantly are running in the background, but I cannot think of a single one.

 

[Sup399]

I would really like to see a more OS X type of UI on the ipad, OS X got ideas from iOS so why not vice versa?iPad is an apple tablet "COMPUTER" so it should look like one.

 

[biobunny]

I would really like to see a more OS X type of UI on the ipad, OS X got ideas from iOS so why not vice versa?iPad is an apple tablet "COMPUTER" so it should look like one.

Exactly. Anyway welcome to the forums.

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[jasmynsway]

Split screen! I'd live to be able to read in the kindle appand take detailed notes in notes plus at the same time.

 

[jasmynsway]

Mine is simple: Arrow keys. I want to be able to easily move the cursor when I'm typing, without going through the hassle of selecting whole words, etc. It's by far the most irritating thing I've encountered when using my iPad.

I concur!!! Good thing external keyboards have them.

 

[htowngator]

Incorrect.

Usually widgets are doing real time updates in the background so that when you turn on the screen they are up-to-date. Think of them as programs that are constantly running in memory, not shut down when you exit. This is why Android devices don't have the battery of an iPhone. When all you have to do is display icons and no active widgets which take memory and CPU cycles, you have better battery life.

Incorrect. A vast majority of widgets, id go as far as to say 99+%, have a set interval in which they update. They "run" in the background, as in their service is active, but they are not eating CPU cycles and are pretty much just chilling in the ram so that when the user switches back to the home screen they can be displayed instantly. Maybe there are SOME widgets which constantly are running in the background, but I cannot think of a single one.

Do you own any Android devices?

 

[kevbo]

I do. I'm pretty sure widgets aren't updating all the time because they often have to "re-load" when I background something. The News and Weather widget (essential IMO) has a setting that let's you choose the update interval or have it done manually. I know the idea of "settings" is kind of a foreign concept to iOS users though

 

[htowngator]

I do. I'm pretty sure widgets aren't updating all the time because they often have to "re-load" when I background something. The News and Weather widget (essential IMO) has a setting that let's you choose the update interval or have it done manually. I know the idea of "settings" is kind of a foreign concept to iOS users though

Widgets are placed in memory as actively running/updating. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't occupying clock cycles and memory when it updates.

Some use a lot and some don't use much.

For example, when I had the Soundhound widget on a home screen, it was now running in memory as if the app were running. I actually had power drain from it (app that tells me what uses power).

 

[Thphilli]

Do you own any Android devices?

Epic4g (Spring Samsung Galaxy S)

 

[Ric Clarke]

We used to be able to set a program to run when double clicking the home button (which you could also do from headphones). Now double clicking has been given its own (useful) function, and triple clicking has its own. So I would like the ability to set a program to run when the home button is clicked 4 times. The program I would use would be a voice recorder. Several times when listing to a podcast, I hear a recommendation for something which I forget by the end of the podcast or when I get the chance to look it up on a computer. What I would like to be able to do is click the "home" button on the headphones and leave myself a voice message (which would get date & timed stamped) and then go back to the podcast.

 

[biobunny]

I rather use the switch instead of double- click home.

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