Affinity Photo 2, Designer 2, and Publisher 2 cost $0.00 to buy after downloading and starting the free trial. Apparently something new is coming at the end of the month and these will go away/not get any more updates. Canva bought the company.
Suspicion leans toward them being bundled into a subscription package ala Adobe.
Soo, I went ahead and did the upgrade, somwhat under trepidation since I'm using a Gen 10 iPad. It is definitely a different beast. I can't swear to it but it is almost as if there is a Mac version available of an app it will execute that instead of an iOS version. I'm probably wrong here but some apps are totally different. One such use case is Google Docs. For some reason I can't fugre out how to switch language input. I tendo to switch back and forth between four or five different languages but now I'm stuck in English.
Multitaskning is greatly improved, lots of windows open, easy to resize and move around. The Files app now provides an Open with... option.
So I did put the new proper OS 26 on my iPad Pro and I'm kind of loving it
Its drastically different from the Beta of OS 26 (which I threw on my Mini)
Performs way better and the new features seem better integrated into the old style of iPad OS.
Available today, finally. Who’s trying it out? (Yeah, I know some of you went for the Dev Beta. You can chime in on how it’s going for you.)
Whoohoo! Mac-like top menus and context menus at last. Oh how I hated digging through Settings->Apps to get to an app’s configuration, etc. And being able to “Open With” is like a dream come true. No more opening the app you want to use first then attempting to open or import the file.
Anyway… I like.
My wife has been borrowing my 12.9 2020 IPP. I don't really want to put it on my 11" M2. I'm planning on trying it out tonight or tomorrow on the 12.9 for more laptop-y-ness on that bigger screen.
Zac Bowden, an admitted Windows fanboy, says Microsoft may have lost nearly 400 hundred million users. Where they went (Apple, Android, Linux) is a mystery, but it is clear the enshitification of WIndows has got to do a lot with it, coupled with having Copilot crammed down our collective throats
UPDATE - See note below - MS updated its blog post to say they have not lost 400,000,000 users...
https://youtu.be/74cev8hmkJo
Yeah, it doesn't look promising.
1. Standard corporate avoidance.
2. Closing down the forums and moving to Discord (the issues of which we are well aware of).
In short, they don't want to hear any lasting criticism of whatever they have planned.