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Apple Tested Stage Manager on iPads Without M1 Chip and Wasn't Satisfied
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Stop explaining yourself to tech trolls, Apple. It’s unbecoming.
"Planned Obsolescence" always has a goofy definition when it comes to Apple. A device not getting one feature, but getting updates and all of the other features & APIs to run the latest software is nowhere near the definition unless you're in Apple-whiner-love-land.
Yes it did. My dual processor G4 did just fine with 1 GB of RAM, and 80GB IDE hard drive. Now I admit my attempt to run OS X on a 266 Mhz G3 processor with 128 MB of RAM and a 4 GB hard drive proved it was inadequate for the job. That one went back to OS9.
People have much more obvious examples, like not releasing the original iPhone with a 3G modem despite flip phones having 3G modems for well over a year at that point, only to go and release a 3G capable iPhone the next year.
Accusations against Apple of planned obsolescence go back decades, I think they might even pre-date Steve Jobs return to the company. It's why it's the first reason people think of when Apple does things like this such. Some people wonder if they are returning to their old ways, others feel they never abandoned their old ways to begin with. Personally, I think it's a bit more of being too over-zealous in encouraging upgrading than true planned obsolescence, but Apple has the planned-obsolescence stink on them unlike any other tech company after years of questionable limitations and equally questionable rationales.
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Apple should just let people cry it out and move on.
With the upcoming weeks of solid stories and attention, there will remain very few people in the market for a new iPad that DON’T know about the new features of iOS 16 by the time the OS is shipping.
Round of applause, folks, yer doin’ good works!
Round of applause, folks, yer doin’ good works!
So you can open a max of 8 apps. What happens if you wanna open 9 apps? The user knows there’s limits even with an M1 iPad.
A user with an older gen iPad is conscious that opening 8 apps is too many. Limiting to 4 apps and no external monitor would’ve been enough.
If people want 16gb of ram apps they know they need the best of the best, M1.
A user with an older gen iPad is conscious that opening 8 apps is too many. Limiting to 4 apps and no external monitor would’ve been enough.
If people want 16gb of ram apps they know they need the best of the best, M1.
Nah. Most folks don't visit tech blogs. It's only a big deal here. If I mention this in real life, I'll probably get a "Huh?"
Here's some homework for anyone who's complaining about this: Write some code that loads a few GBs of data into RAM, draw the data, and animate it from a tiny thumbnail to fullscreen. Report back on how you solved all the performance bottlenecks. Then you can critique Apple all you want!
Agree. So much ado about nothing at this point.
it's a clean cutoff for software development going forward. And it's not like the older iPad pros suddenly stopped working.
That’s why I put the slash and said “hardware locked features.” I suppose the word “and” would have been better served there.
Apple is having it both ways on talking about their hardware.
Apple told us that their 2018 chip (A12X) was so fast and capable that it didn't need much improvement in 2020 (A12Z) and now all the sudden, class leading hardware (A12Z) in 2020 can't run some seemingly minor 2022 implementation that makes the ipad a little more able to substitute for a macbook.
I think people are living in a time of reduced trust and now Apple seems to be making up stuff that doesn't seem to make sense.
No more Steve means no one is pushed to make it work.
lol. Apple is not going to turn your iPad into a macOS device. It's not going to happen. They don't want to. You can go back to working on an 16 yo e-machine PC if thats all you need.
I have an A12X and it stuns me how responsive it is. I ran Fortnite, before EPIC flamed out, on it at 120fps.
So I 100% don't believe them when they say the M1 is needed.
True.
Sadly, many people can't feel good about themselves or empowered unless they're constantly raging against something or someone.
Pretty much this.
It's the Streisand effect.
The vast majority of people will be blissfully unaware of the feature. It's just a vocal minority
LOL, the saga continues. Apple is not satisfied? But Apple was satisfied when they released the ultra buggy ios15....
Apple just keep on digging. They shouldn't have said anything and this would've passed. Or simply show us. If they're afraid, then show it to developers and market it as how much better the M1 is. Show side by side comparison. I mean how bad it could be compared to mission control multi tasking on Macs with old Intel chips and hard drives?
Apple just keep on digging. They shouldn't have said anything and this would've passed. Or simply show us. If they're afraid, then show it to developers and market it as how much better the M1 is. Show side by side comparison. I mean how bad it could be compared to mission control multi tasking on Macs with old Intel chips and hard drives?
The M1 is 2 years old already at this point. At best, it has 3 more years to go. Considering how the M1 pro and newer ME use LPDDR5 and have media engine, I expect the M1 life to be cut short. Buying anything M1 regular today is akin to buying the ipad pro 2020. You're buying something that
have 2 year old hardware inside.
Expect the same tune in the future, how the M1 performance is too slow and not up to Apple's "satisfaction".
But it's not up to their level of satisfaction.Soooo they just admitted that it is working on lessor models. Just offer the option in the multitasking options in settings.
Just pretend your running iOS 9 on an iPhone 4S.
But iOS 9 on iphone 4s magically met their satisfaction level.