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Apple Seeds First Beta of iPadOS 16.1, Confirms Delayed Launch
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You are one of the 1st people to understand my avatar! Thanks for the shoutout!
That's what I was thinking as well.
Besides an upscaled weather app there's literally nothing else in it. The 'major' iOS16 feature (lockscreen) doesn't even make it to iPadOS!
Swap file alone is huge. It will open up iPad for a lot of apps that were unavailable before.
Also, Stage Manager and external monitor support is pretty big.
I wonder if any Beta testers out there can guesstimate which issue(s) are the big hold up in Stage Manager or elsewhere? I for one want a the most stable, official, release possible. If Apple hamstrings my M1 iPadPro under the new release I guess I'll have to buy the M2 iPad
Check out Steve's twitter thread here:
There's few people on the planet that have as much insight into actually how all of this works, let alone how to fix it. People might not agree with him all the time, but one thing he's better than most at is explaining why something works or doesn't. Outside of folks that work at Apple, there's few that can dig into specific code to see (and sometimes fix!) the issue.
I would wager to guess that the iPad's Stage Manager issues are bleeding over to the macOS side of things. And then probably with so many folks working on Stage Manager (for both iPadOS & macOS), they're probably glossing over some other issues that need to be addressed, at least from what I've seen. I expect beta issues while running a beta, but the macOS betas have gone from 'alright' to worse to bad to 'better' and then back again.
Well they didn’t used to have that fear under Jobs. Cook seems a lot more afraid of it. And there’s an argument to be made that the people buying those iPads were not choosing between that or a Mac. As much as Apple keeps wanting to say they are, they are not comparable.
Ok then, why don’t you go and get stage manager running on an older iPad and prove it doesn’t run badly?
Apple releasing iPad OS later than iOS 16 for iPhones is an epic fail. This isn't their 1st rodeo.
Can we give Apple a break? Obviously, this is the result of the WFH transition and every industry is affected by it to some degree, Apple notwithstanding...
Yet, Here we are!
iPad!
Cannibalizing the MacBooks!
That’s the thing, they likely weren’t choosing between that and a Mac because most people in the world don’t want a Mac. They actively buy systems that are NOT Macs.
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Uh no. Cook has specifically said that he feels the iPad Pro is a laptop and desktop replacement.
Can the iPad Pro Kill the Laptop?
The massive iPad Pro hit stores on Wednesday and at least one person believes it can replace the laptop. That man just happens to be Apple CEO Ti
www.nbcnews.com
"I think if you’re looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore?" Cook told The Telegraph in an interview. "No really, why would you buy one?"
Cook insisted that "the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people" who will "start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phone."
Uh no. Cook has specifically said that he feels the iPad Pro is a laptop and desktop replacement.
Can the iPad Pro Kill the Laptop?
The massive iPad Pro hit stores on Wednesday and at least one person believes it can replace the laptop. That man just happens to be Apple CEO Ti
"I think if you’re looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore?" Cook told The Telegraph in an interview. "No really, why would you buy one?"
Cook insisted that "the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people" who will "start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phone."
Yeah I know he says that. And for his line of work it's probably even true. It's not true for the vast majority of people who do computer work. Not yet. We may be headed in that direction but we are far, far from there. We're about as close to that as we are the paperless office.
Push back the release date then. The WFH transition is a lame excuse why they can't properly release their new OS. They have numerous bugs all the time so not like they release a perfect OS anytime anymore.
Or...go one step further and just open-up the bootloader to dual-boot and allow users to dual-boot between macOS and iPadOS....boot into macOS for the multi-tasking and mult-window support, and boot into iPadOS for the portability aspect....
Best of both worlds, and we all know this can be done since both OSes now support AS....so the architecture isn't an issue...
I'd personally love that. The issue is that Apple doesn't want iPad to eat into their Macbook sales. Apple makes more money when you buy both. Apple didn't become the world's richest company by having their own products eat into their own sales.
I would disagree. I believe it was Steve Jobs or some other C-suite executive who said that they prefer that their products cannibalize each other rather than having an outsider do it to them.
Hence why, the iPhone ate into the iPod sales and eventually dominated and overtook it.
Phil Schiller on 60 minutes:
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-on-cannibalization-2015-12
That was Jobs' Apple. Cook is a different kind of leader. He's about maximizing value, not about changing the world.
I assure you Jobs wouldn't have been into the idea of having an iPad that dual-boots. He set them up as two different platforms in the first place.
He could've done a tablet Mac. He didn't.