How does this differ from the Notes app which has many (most?) of the features in the description? Is Freeform just supposed to make these features more discoverable?
Infinite canvas, super simple, lightning fast, near zero learning curve. Powerful enough. No arbitrary lock in to the apple ecosystem. Free. Open source.
“Let’s do collaboration”, says the company locking people who dare not be in its ecosystem out. Gross, IMO.
I recently had to make some sketches of schematics. On iPad I tried excalidraw, ms whiteboard, notes, notability, and sketchbook: drawing the same thing on each. To my surprise, notes actually worked the best for me with the snapping editing and exporting. Notability was also very good, but I tried that only after finishing in notes.
Excalidraw works with Apple Pencil which is great but doesn’t have snapping and straightening of lines.
I just tried to use it, as the limitations of Freeform bother me, and Jamboard has frustrating privacy implications.
Unfortunately, palm rejection on Excalidraw isn’t great - each time I rest my hand on the screen to start drawing with the pencil, random lines get drawn on the screen.
Shame, as the potential is high. Will bookmark for future in the hopes it improves. Thanks!
Note is primarily text based but can include medias and some limited canvas object, this new interface is canvas based and can include text and medias.
I don’t see wall-mount iPad happen. They’d have to offer it in to many different sizes (that also is the reason I never understood why people thought Apple’d start making smart TVs)
The UI also wouldn’t be as good as that of an iPad on your lap, I think, and you can already use airplay to mirror your iPad’s screen on a large screen (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204289)
Finally, if you have a Mac, it can run this program, too, and thus show this on a large screen.
I'm not sure what you mean here - to be honest I'm not sure what the strategy is with something like this. Corporates typically don't have Macs (though they will have phones)
