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Originally Posted by pwalker8
For the most part, Apple tends towards incremental improvement rather than radical changes. I'm not a huge text/twitter sort so I don't notice a lot of the social media oriented changes that Apple talks about.
I do like the new widgets. My biggest hope is that they will improve the sync in Big Sur so that I can sync my audiobooks by selecting specific categories rather than have to select them on a book by book basis. I suspect this is a "well of course you ought to be able to do that" thing that has a low priority since not that many people would use it and Apple is focused on audiobooks you purchase from Apple (which are in the cloud) rather than audiobooks you purchase from 3rd parties like audible.
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Yes indeed Apple usually stays away from radical changes in iOS and now iPadOS, with the exception of the introduction of iPadOS 13 last year, and several years ago when they radically changed the old UI from the original "3D candy" look. Unfortunately Apple has been known to move menu options around so we sometimes have to search for them in the new OS releases. I haven't noticed any major changes to menu options yet with 14.
I do use Twitter to track certain things like Hurricanes Laura and Sally, it is a really great tool for that if you learn how to build useful Twitter Lists. But otherwise I’m not a big user of Twitter. I don't use it in a socializing manner in other words.
I do a bit of text messaging with a couple of friends and a handful of relatives, but not that much. Unfortunately, most of the handful of people I regularly text with don't have iPhones, so no iMessaging is capable with them, only a less option-rich form I will simply call texting. There are some nice features in iMessage, or whatever Apple calls it, but they only work between Apple devices. That is rather aggravating, but no big deal I guess. I do occasionally have trouble getting an image or video to attach to a text message I send to a non-Apple device. I did briefly look at the new messaging capability via a intro web page, but I doubt much, if any, of the new capability will be something I would use very often.
I’m somewhat disappointed that the widgets are rather limited in iPadOS 14 compared to iOS 14, at least that is what I’ve noticed so far. For example, a widget can be placed on an iOS 14 Home page, but not on an iPadOS 14 Home page. In iPadOS they can only be placed on the Today View portion of the Home page, or at least that is the only place I’ve been able to place one. I’m still learning though.