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Apple Explains Why Stage Manager is Limited to M1 iPads in New Statement
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M1 silicon was designed to be used in Apple's premium tablets. You may not understand that tech manufacturers tier their products based on capability/speed/etc, with corresponding differences in price.
Pay more money, get better performance. It's not that difficult of a concept to grasp.
Yes waiting for something better is always an option too. The problems is, you can be waiting for something even better forever if you don't take the plunge.
Yes, but here we were talking about 0,000061 Gb of RAM.
The problem with your 2014 MacBook Air is there isn't any problem for you as user to make it slow by opening up some more memory demanding apps and many tabs in chrome.
Apple doesn't want you as a user to be able to make your computer slow even if you are trying.
Apple is a corporation that is legally required to make the best decisions to enrich its shareholders before it thinks about its employees or customers. Corporations are never our friends, and they are CERTAINLY never our family.
Yes, but the reason why Apple have such a high memory requirement is they don't want the iPad to slow down ever! Even if you as a user tries to.
It's quite easy today to make a Windows computer or a Mac slow if it only has 3Gb of RAM. You can probably just do it with chrome and the right web applications.
Apple needs to do something to encourage new iPad sales. Functionality limitations provides that incentive though not as much as they might expect given that said functionality can be covered by owning an M1 Mac and a non-M1 iPad. Also, assuming the iOS 16 glide path continues, an M1 or M2 iPad could easily develop into a platform that eliminates the need for 2 platforms and cannibalize MBP sales.
Source? You made this up.
The mini isn't a 'low end product'. No iPad is a low-end product.
Apple isn't giving people an option to pay more. Their oldest iPads, which haven't been updated in over a year, represent 40% of the tablets that will support this feature.
Also - don't be rude. I am more than happy to pay more money for better performance, but Apple hasn't offered that as an option.
In other words, only apps specifically updated to be compatible with window manager will look good. Same as Dex.
That right there is the big puzzle? Where is the consistency with the followup examples: A15 6.7" iPhone 13 Pro Max vs a A15 iPad Mini 6 vs a M1 12.9" iPad Pro, as far as multitasking, even side by side. You've more or less implied the consistency doesn't apply across devices with this Stage Manager. iPadOS 15 wasn't exactly stellar for working with multiple apps easily. IPadOS 16 now makes this happen better with a finite set of devices. I guess its progress of a sorts, but each device varies more on what it can and cannot do.
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Are you better off with or without Apple’s, which is a corporation last time I checked, products. I suspect you are better off for Apple’s “greed” because it was your “greed” that incentivize you to buy their products. Your relationship with Apple is, therefore, a symbiotic relationship for your common good, which is not unlike how families are symbiotic that organize for the collective good Of all members.
That was deep. I might need to sit under an olive tree and think for a bit.
The review mentions the most popular apps amongst those specifically optimized for Dex. It is much less important to have many other types of apps (like games) to work in multi window mode (although most of them will work too). Besides, we already established that it's not different for iOS.
Which is why I suggested the external monitor stuff would be reserved for the M1's, but they could have probably made it work on the iPad display alone...
We all know Apple loves to obsolete products quicker than necessary. I'm sure this is a part of a plan.
iPadOS 16 drops support for the second-generation iPad Air and the fourth-generation iPad mini. That air is 5 years old, and the mini is 7 years old.
You do realize multitasking on Windows 3.1 has exactly nothing to do with this? It's like saying GeForce 660 should be able to run Cyberpunk 2077 because we had 3D graphics with 3dfx Voodoo in 1997.
How much RAM did the apps take then and how much now?
How many background processes did they use?
What were the resolutions running on those Windows 3.1 computers?
What was the performance on those computers?
It's worlds apart.
Also, for the record, Windows 3.1 didn't actually have true multitasking. Not that it matters here, but just fyi.
The fact is, for the solution Apple chose for this multitasking solution, you require a swap file. And for the performance to stay the same, instantaneous and responsive as you're used to on iPads that previously didn't use swap, you need an M1 SSD controller.
Split-screen apps already dynamically adjust to both width and height, so I doubt that apps have to be updated just to work with stage manager.
Awkward example given the current generation GPUs struggle to run Cyberpunk, but I'll allow it. Carry on.
No, the problem is supporting several memory demanding applications at once with 3 or 4Gb of Ram without suffering slowdown.
You probably think that Apple should support 2 or 3 windows then because it's better with a little support than no support at all. But that's not the Apple way.
They probably want the device to support everything the M1 iPad can without any slowdown and if it can't it won't get the feature.
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That Air 2 was released in 2014 so more like going on 8 years.
Could be some weird A series multiple screen quirk, however as many have pointed out the DTK they issued a couple of years ago used an A12Z with some more RAM and I assume that must have been able to run at least 2 screens at once.
For me Stage Manager I could understand and to be honest is no big loss, however proper external screen support should’ve been added when they started mouse/keyboard support. Some apps can already extend their screen in some cases such as a video preview on the external and the editor timeline on the internal screen, so I’m having a hard time understanding why the A12X iPad cannot run Pages/Word on one screen and a web browser or video on the other and have both screens properly scaled.
Yes I have used it. And yes it works wirelessly, with a computer and with a cable attached to a monitor.