In iPadOS, Apple is setting the Safari user agent to the desktop version (previously, Safari on iPad has used a mobile user agent), but that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Setting the user agent will cause websites to display their desktop varieties, but those were built with the expectation of mouse interactions rather than touch.
There’s a lot more details to uncover here, but it looks like Apple has done a huge amount of work under the hood to make touch interactions work intuitively in the desktop browser paradigm.
MacDailyNews Take: If you’ve got the iPadOS beta, try Safari on some sites that didn’t work well before for you. Whatever Apple’s doing is working!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sarah” for the heads up.]
All these new features will be great for dedicated iPad users, but it won’t be enough to increase iPad sales or reach consumers happy with using Chromebooks. Apple’s high-end iPads are close to the price of MacBook Air and most consumers aren’t willing to pay that much. Apple will only be able to barely hold on to the users the iPad already has and nothing more. I wonder if AR will be able to increase iPad sales as it’s a rather nice feature.
macnificentseven48 – your brain is in lost and found – you might want to go get it!
Apple iPad sales are up the last two months because actually built a better iPad, the software has only put Apple even further ahead of the PC/Android pack of has beens.