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Apple Explains Why Stage Manager is Limited to M1 iPads in New Statement
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Don't get me wrong, if people can complain themselves into getting regular external display support on the A12Z then more power to them.
Yes, I got it mixed up with the Mini. But nonetheless they now offer the M1 in a relatively affordable iPad.
Technically there are three features that are sort of M1-only. There is Stage Manager, of course. But there is also the "More Space" feature where Apple enabled resolution scaling. The third is Reference Mode, though that is actually locked to only the 12.9" version with mini-LED. The last one is why I said, "sort of" because the restriction on the third item is not really the M1, but rather the screen.
You still have 3 features: Stage Manager, Display Scaling and Virtual Memory Swap
You're correct on the Memory swap. I didn't separate it from Stage Manager, but the virtual memory is available for M1's even if Stage Manager is turned off. I apologize for conflating them because virtual memory is an underlying requirement to run SM, but it really is separate. So it is three M1 features and one mini-LED feature.
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Because it was irrelevant to your accusing Apple of lying.
I get not liking Apple’s decision but Apple did not lie as to why they did what they did.
Yes, imagine having a computer where your Overlord decides what software you are allowed to execute?! 1984 dystopian stuff!! Thank goodness the superior macOS platform exists.
I don't fully understand. Are you saying that when iPads are "multitasking" currently, they aren't really, they are just displaying three frozen, sleeping apps (static images, more or less) and one awake one? That doesn't ring true with my experience, but even if so, I have just one mouse, and having this experience on an external monitor but with overlapping windows on a background as large as the monitor itself would have been a huge step up and satisfied much of what everyone was asking for. Instead I take it Apple is supplying something more than people wanted, in the name of some bright, beautiful "future" for .0001% power users, but really just serves to sell more iPads and unnecessarily harm the environment today.
Depending on circumstances (such as current memory usage and current interaction), yes, some of those multitasking applications might be asleep (it’s similar to the AppNap feature on macOS). Certainly, applications in other groups (two side by side applications you were using earlier that still show as being side by side in the app switcher) are probably asleep and not instantaneously available. At best, their RAM usage is somewhat minimized or compressed. At worst, their memory has completely unloaded from the system and the app basically has to run its startup processes again when you switch to it.
I was talking about window management but you are wrong about Windows too. I have only 4GB on Windows 10 and it runs totally okay. Not super fast but not slow as long as I don’t open hundreds of applications. It can easily run 7-8 apps+50+tabs in a browser with zero issues.
My point was that it was “new” 12 months ago. They’re still going to be supported for years, likely for iOS 17 and 18… maybe 19. They’re just not getting a few out of a laundry list of new features.
You are, of course, correct. Initial requirements are always (or should always be) customer focused. If the customer has no device requirement, then that just means that when system requirements occur, the team has a large amount of leeway as to what they want to deliver.
I could actually see this as being a part of a user requirement story from awhile back with no current way (at the time) to meet the requirement, and moved to the backlog. BUT, out of that discussion would have came a list of hardware features that would need to be completed prior to pulling that feature out of the backlog to implement it. Seems like a plausible process, but I have zero reason to believe that’s the way it went.
I would say other windows are freezed because Apple likes stop people have any way to burn battery.
Anyway even you buy the most expensive ipad pro now, you may not get a lot of new main features in next Air. This is how Apple does business now no matter what is the real reason.
They’ve done business like this for years. Sometimes particular models of iPhones, iPads, or Macs get years of support for new features and OS versions. Other times they get the bare minimum. PowerPC Macs got all of 1 new OS release after the Intel transition. Yet the 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro got 6 years of updates.
Example:
Iphone 12 Mini has front camera deep fusion and night mode
Iphone 11 Pro Max still does not have
Your point being? Your original statement was that Apple wouldn’t canabalize product sales. Now you are agreeing they will when it makes economic sense? Jobs and Cook are both on the record for saying they provide ways of doing things, not product lines. Plenty of other examples of them doing so.
You’re wrong about the iPad too. It was a vision before the iPhone was considered. That vision being a device anyone could just pick up and use for single simple tasks. And it still does that brilliantly. Since day 1. Get a Mac if you want a Mac.
They’re a multi trillion dollar company because they know how to castrate products with restricting features.
Presenting those features as huge selling points and getting people to buy new devices early.