Woo hoo! My Costco $300 iPad 128GB Wi-Fi arrived today! (wish me luck using it!)

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Woo hoo!

My Costco $300 iPad 128GB Wi-Fi arrived today! (wish me luck using it!)
http://i.cubeupload.com/WNbbxt.jpg

It's running iOS 11.2.1 (update available of 11.2.6) by default.

The new iPad is almost exactly, if not exactly the same size as the older
iPad Air, where the old iPad Air glass broke after a few years of use by
the grandkids. http://i.cubeupload.com/5IUrm6.jpg

Hence, I need a stronger case than the Belken one I had put on the 64GB
iPad Air with the free T-mobile cellular for life SIM card.

Any suggestions for what fun stuff to learn to do with the new iPad?

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In article <p7sbfk$10vf$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Ragnusen Ultred

<ragn...@ultred.com> wrote:

>
> My Costco $300 iPad 128GB Wi-Fi arrived today! (wish me luck using it!)

you'll need it.

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In article <news:080320181656417852%nos...@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote:

>> My Costco $300 iPad 128GB Wi-Fi arrived today! (wish me luck using it!)
>
> you'll need it.

Gee. Thanks! That's sweet of you to care about a fellow iOS lover!
I appreciate the kind words since I love all my Apple iPads and iPods!

More importantly, I bought 3 of those $300 128GB Wi-Fi-only 9.7-inch iPads
at Costco this week so I'm helping non-technical folks set theirs up to
work outside of a desktop computer (neither has a computer).

Mine came with 33 aps by default, only half of which I know to be useful.
http://i.cubeupload.com/0RwZa9.jpg

That's a picture of the home screen organization of /default/ apps.
1. Communication folder = Messages, Mail, FaceTime, & Contacts
2. Time folder = Calendar, Clock, & Reminders
3. Pic folder = Camera & Photos
4. Map folder = Maps
5. Files folder = Files & Notes
6. System folder = Settings, Find iPhone, & App Store
6. Junk folder = (see list below, which is a 1st pass on what's junk)
iMovie
iTunesU
Find Friends
GarageBand
Tips
Photo Booth
Clips
Keynote
Numbers
Pages
iTunes Store
iBooks
Podcasts
Home
TV
News
Music

There are a few annoyances though, which just need to be worked out.

For example, my other iPads (safely on much older iOS versions) don't have
a dock that constantly changes all the time. I'll need to figure out how to
make that dock set of icons static so it's not constantly changing.

--
(Did you notice, nospam, that I copied some of your headers just now as a
token of my appreciation for all the help you have provided us all?)

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In article <p7seim$15lf$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Ragnusen Ultred

<ragn...@ultred.com> wrote:

> More importantly, I bought 3 of those $300 128GB Wi-Fi-only 9.7-inch iPads
> at Costco this week so I'm helping non-technical folks set theirs up to
> work outside of a desktop computer (neither has a computer).

if you really wanted to be of any help, you'd send them to an apple
store, where they can get competent help from people who actually know
what they're doing.

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In article <news:080320181750502761%nos...@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote:

> if you really wanted to be of any help, you'd send them to an apple
> store, where they can get competent help from people who actually know
> what they're doing.

At the moment, I'm trying to figure out what the philosophy is in
constantly polluting the dock with icons that have to just be removed
because I don't want them there.

Is there a way, in iOS 11.2.1 to tell iOS to stop littering the dock with
debris like what rude uncouth passersby do to a New York City sidewalk?

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In article <p7sp5a$1kc4$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Ragnusen Ultred

<ragn...@ultred.com> wrote:

> At the moment, I'm trying to figure out what the philosophy is in
> constantly polluting the dock with icons that have to just be removed
> because I don't want them there.

there's nothing to figure out.

recently and frequently used apps are added to the dock so that they're
always visible and accessible, regardless of home screen.

that runs counter to *your* philosophy of making things as difficult
and convoluted as possible.

> Is there a way, in iOS 11.2.1 to tell iOS to stop littering the dock

yes.

it's actually *very* easy to do, which means you will not be able to
figure it out on your own.

> with
> debris like what rude uncouth passersby do to a New York City sidewalk?

you obviously haven't been to new york very much, if at all.

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In article <news:080320182058288260%nos...@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote:

> recently and frequently used apps are added to the dock so that they're
> always visible and accessible, regardless of home screen.

It's a fine default for ignorant people for iOS to randomly pollute the
dock so that people who don't have a clue where they put their apps, can
find them - but my app icons never move from the logical spot I put them in
the first place.
http://i.cubeupload.com/WNbbxt.jpg\

So I turned that iOS pollution off by going to
Settings > General > Multitasking & Dock > Show Suggested and Recent Apps = Off

Moving on to getting rid of iOS annoyances from the start, has iOS yet
given the user a way to turn off that wholly extraneous extra completely
blank "search" screen to the left of the main desktop screen yet?

There's absolutely no reason to force every user to have to deal with a
screen that provides absolutely no added value, and yet you can't delete
it.

Even Android launchers almost universally delete screens that have nothing
in them.

Can Apple users delete that completely blank screen yet?

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In article <p7sqn7$1m9j$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Ragnusen Ultred

<ragn...@ultred.com> wrote:

> So I turned that iOS pollution off by going to
> Settings > General > Multitasking & Dock > Show Suggested and Recent Apps =
> Off

wow. you did figure it out on your own.

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In article <news:080320182124070652%nos...@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote:

> wow. you did figure it out on your own.

What you failed to answer was the simple question of how to get iOS to
delete the completely blank extraneous "search" screen to the left of the
desktop.

Even Android launchers are smart enough to delete an empty screen for
heaven's sake.

That's the second iOS bug in five minutes. Jesus.
Don't they /test/ this iOS software in the real world?

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In article <p7sshv$1oar$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Ragnusen Ultred

<ragn...@ultred.com> wrote:

> What you failed to answer was the simple question of how to get iOS to
> delete the completely blank extraneous "search" screen to the left of the
> desktop.

it's not blank, it's not extraneous, and being able to search is *very*
useful.

> Even Android launchers are smart enough to delete an empty screen for
> heaven's sake.

you don't understand what it even *is*.

> That's the second iOS bug in five minutes. Jesus.
> Don't they /test/ this iOS software in the real world?

it's not a bug.

[B...@onramp.net]

You are beyond stupid. Goodbye.
Plonk

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In article <news:080320182150597320%nos...@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote:

> it's not blank, it's not extraneous, and being able to search is *very*
> useful.

Search is fine for morons who can't find what they just saved seconds
prior, but I turn all that paraplegic cripple-crap off and hence, I simply
want Apple to delete the now-blank search screen that /doubles/ the number
of screens for no gain whatsoever.

At least Android launchers delete empty screens.

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In article <p7stkd$1phq$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Ragnusen Ultred

<ragn...@ultred.com> wrote:

>
> > it's not blank, it's not extraneous, and being able to search is *very*
> > useful.
>
> Search is fine for morons

then you should be glad it's there.

> who can't find what they just saved seconds
> prior,

or years prior.

> but I turn all that paraplegic cripple-crap off

because you like to make things as difficult as possible.

> and hence,

patsy lives.

> I simply
> want Apple to delete the now-blank search screen that /doubles/ the number
> of screens for no gain whatsoever.

it's not blank nor is it solely a search screen.

there's a lot of very useful stuff on mine, none of which is related to
search.

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In article <news:nit3adpkq4qcukeih...@4ax.com>, B...@Onramp.net
wrote:

> You are beyond stupid. Goodbye.
> Plonk

It's useful to note, for the record, how this particular child-like Apple
Apologist responded to /facts/ that he didn't like.

Facts /threaten/ the imaginary underpinning that underlies the Apple
Appologists' entire belief system.

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Am Thu, 8 Mar 2018 21:55:00 +0000 (UTC), schrieb Ragnusen Ultred:

> Any suggestions for what fun stuff to learn to do with the new iPad?

This is mostly to sms who correctly pointed out that the 128GB $300 Costco
Wi-Fi only 9.7" 2017 iPads didn't have GPS or cellular capabilities, which
is true.

However, today, I accidentally realized that you can still perform
"rudimentary" routing on these Wi-Fi only devices nonetheless.

What fortuitously happened today was that I noticed that google maps was
"actively" using my location while I was driving with the iPad on the
passenger seat.
http://i.cubeupload.com/jOw0fO.gif

I opened up the Google map app, where I had already downloaded all the
local tiles using the well-known "OK Maps" feature for offline maps and I
saw the familiar blue dot almost exactly where I was driving at the time.

Lo and behold, in populated areas, the location tracking isn't all that
bad!

Clearly the location tracking was not by GPS but by nearby cellular Wi-Fi
access points, but the fact is that it works in a rudimentary way to allow
a semblance of routing and direction finding in populated areas.

Obviously this is to be expected, so it's not a surprise to all the
geniuses out there who will claim to be knowitalls, but I admit I hadn't
thought about using this iPad for rudimentary routing until now, so, I just
wanted to shout out to you that it works, in a rudimentary way, in
populated areas, if you're previously downloaded the offline maps.

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