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Apple to Delay iPadOS 16 Launch Until October
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Not releasing at same time as iOS. It always suffers in one way or another.
Did they say it would release the same time as iOS?
Which date was that? Did Apple walk back a date?
Evidently, October is no longer in the Fall according to this thread. I see countless people saying they delayed it even though the only thing Apple said was "Fall" when listing the release date.
This whole topic is speculation from Mark Gurman, nothing more.
If Mark Gurman wants to say "Apple has decided to target iPadOS 16 for an October release, which is different from previous years", he can say that. Instead, he's saying "Apple Plans to Delay Launch of iPadOS 16 Update by About a Month", which is clickbait. The announced timeframe is fall, not September. Whether or not Apple was originally internally shooting for September or not doesn't matter.
(But, aside from that, what everyone else is saying: suppose it's true that they were originally internally shooting for September, and now October. So what? That means they have more time to iron out bugs. No issue at all.)
How does releasing an iPadOS feature that iOS doesn't have in the first place a month later make either iPadOS or iOS worse?
^^^ This.
Of course it's in Apples interest to corale people into buying new equipment and what better way for them than to gimp older hardware by saying it's not capable of running the latest and greatest feature in their eyes.
We want you to spend more so the wheels keep turning. Marketing 101.
I was only being sarcastic because of the backlash the other week 😂 thanks thoughIt's not available. Not enough courage. Sure enough, Apple was not satisfied.
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I was only being sarcastic because of the backlash the other week 😂 thanks though
I don't think it is related to bugs but instead to accommodate to new iPads launch, which is also expected mid-October. Perhaps to showcase some new features exclusive to M2 iPads...
I rather Apple take its time and release a strong first iOS 16. It's not like we all have to have it at a set time or else.
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It used to be a 18 months to 2 year cycle at the beginning.
They are far different use cases.
iPhone has Lock Screen widgets because you carry it with you. Having that would be irrelevant on an iPad.
iPad has stage manager.. would not work on an iPhone.
and so on
What iOS feature is a "must have" for iPadOS?
No problem. I can’t use Stage Manager on any of my iPads anyway 😉
You’re making an assumption that Apple had planned to release it the same time as iOS this year. Just cos they did in the past, doesn’t mean they’d planned it that way this year.
Apple have been mixing things up a bit with releases lately. They only ever said Fall, which is not limited to the month of September.
For all we know they decided to release it in October this year, in line with new iPads, so that they’re more consistent with releases (iOS with new iPhones, iPadOS with new iPads, MacOS with new Macs).
Also, you’re getting the ‘delay’ comment from someone that needs clickbait to make an income. Much more inviting than ‘Apple releasing iPadOS in October for a change’.
There’s some obstinate people who equate working from home as being lazy/slacking.
It’s a rude and inconsiderate bias.
The company that I work for has had IT department working from home since March 2020, and there’s been a drop in quality from the developers working at home. In fact there’s actually been an increase in productivity.
M1’s advantage over M1 is the presence of a ProRes encoder/decoder. This will matter for those using video editing software like Luma Fusion. If Apple adds an M2-exclusive feature, it’d probably be some sort of ProRes video related feature. Of course, taking video with an iPad is just weird.
It’s actually a huge update. Just because people get fixated on Stage Manager doesn’t mean there’s nothing in there. The biggest challenge besides Stage Manager will be Matter support, which I consider the biggest and most desired feature of iPadOS since I’m a big home automation junkie. There’s a ton of testing that will have to happen with thousands of different home automation gadgets. Matter has been in the works for years and is finally nearing release. I’m betting this is actually a lot harder to implement. A completely revamped Home app goes with that. Being able to gain HomeKit support for thousands of devices that currently only work with Google Home and Alexa is big.
After a great deal of research, I also found out why iPadOS is not gaining Matter support as a HomeKit hub. While iPadOS will continue functioning as a hub for HomeKit-only devices, I found that Matter depends heavily on Thread, which iPads do not support. It’s quite possible the next iPad may have Thread support to gain hub functionality for Matter. Meanwhile, Apple has secretly snuck in Thread support in the Apple TV and HomePod mini. Here’s another feature that may be exclusive to M2 only iPads.
Then there are the zillions of collaboration features, which was the theme of the WWDC keynote. FreeForm is still in process along with all the sharing features put into Safari and FaceTime. Shared features present in all the OS’es also takes a lot of development time, like the changes to Messages and Mail along with things like being able to pull text and objects out of photos and videos. Siri without Internet access is pretty cool. Live transcription is also huge for those of us who don’t hear that well. iPadOS 15 had a ton of features but people fixated on Universal Control, which wasn’t even done until March. Saying iPadOS 16 is a small update is nonsense.