Technology

60078 readers

4404 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

287

Everything Apple iOS 18 Will Do, Android Already Does (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jeffw to c/technology

240 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. I have a work Macbook Pro, which I honestly dislike, and my wife has an iPhone and iPad (iPad is for drawing because the Apple pencil is better than alternatives). My wife won't use an Apple computer because her games don't work (mostly Lost Ark, but also others), I won't use one because I much prefer Linux, and we don't want yet another streaming service.

So Apple gets a big "meh" from me. It's better than Windows for me, so I guess there's that, but I'm really not interested in an "ecosystem."

[–] dustyData 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apple pencil is better than alternatives

I can see your wife has never actually used a good drawing tablet. Wacoms beat even the latest iPad for drawing and are a tiny fraction of their cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Aren't wacoms PC-accessories? She wants an independent tablet for drawing at the park and whatnot.

She has a wacom tablet for home though, but she's never gotten the hang of it. Maybe I'll push her to try again now that she's more familiar with digital art.

[–] dustyData 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There's the MobileStudio Pro and Wacom is hardly the only brand. There's also the Huion Kamvas Studio. Both are cheaper than an iPad Pro and both come in multiple sizes. I'm not sure about Huion but Wacom has had rotating barrel sensors on the pen for almost a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Cool, I'll put that on the list next time we shatter a screen or something.