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Apple Working on Split-Screen Multitasking, Multi-User Support for iPad
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Wonder why its taking so long - it's not like they're splitting atoms.
I'll see myself out. Be sure to try the -- *door slam* -- veal (muffled)
I'll see myself out. Be sure to try the -- *door slam* -- veal (muffled)
I actually think Apple may need to spill the beans on this at WWDC even though it would be a stronger reveal to coincide with the iPad Pro. Developers will need to prepare unless Apple was clever enough to fully support this without changes to apps. The other tricky spot is how Apple might introduce the idea of new layouts for apps before the iPad Pro is released. Not to mention stylus support if it is indeed coming.
Traditionally, Apple would wait and package it all up for the big new iPad reveal, but there has been some more transparency lately and maybe, unlikely as it is, we could see the confluence of Pro expectations and developer friendliness give us real usable information half a year from the release or complete reveal of the iPad Pro.
Yeah, probably not.
I think much of the groundwork has already been done by the pushing of developers towards using auto-layout. Even at the moment without apps being updated, I reckon it'd be useable, even if some bits didn't look quite right. It's not going to require masses of work to ready apps for split screen.
Maybe they could run as an extended iPhone version?
Even so, I doubt we'll get any preview of the iPad Pro without it being released. I hope they don't make split screen apps an iPad Pro only feature - it would be great on the normal iPad too.
Great Apple! You are only 5 years late.
Apple is so behind in os tech its ridiculous, yet their fans claim it's the best is in the world.
Smh if this role were reversed, Apple fans would be screaming, up in arms about how everyone is copying them, how Samsung and windows is stealing their ideas.
How Apple revolutionized multitasking would be the topic on every tech site. But since Apple is late... Heck forget that, u will still see those titles even though they are 5 years late.
Apple is so behind in os tech its ridiculous, yet their fans claim it's the best is in the world.
Smh if this role were reversed, Apple fans would be screaming, up in arms about how everyone is copying them, how Samsung and windows is stealing their ideas.
How Apple revolutionized multitasking would be the topic on every tech site. But since Apple is late... Heck forget that, u will still see those titles even though they are 5 years late.
On those tablets that I own (Surface RT, Surface 2, Aspire Switch 11, and GTab Pro 8.4) that support multi-window, I have found that capability to be very useful.
An iPad Pro that had multiwindow, BT mouse support, and active digitizer would go a long way in enhancing the usability of the form-factor.
I use apps full-screen on my 27" Mac monitor, so split-screening is kind of lost on me.
But multi-user accounts would be phenomenal. Please bring it to the phone, too. I'd love to be able to log in and out of my "work phone" each day.
But multi-user accounts would be phenomenal. Please bring it to the phone, too. I'd love to be able to log in and out of my "work phone" each day.
Split screen and multi-user rumors have been around for 3 years now. Is this story anymore credible than the others ... No
Will Apple shoot itself in the foot by putting features that their laptops already have in an iPad??? If they do many people don't need a laptop
Will Apple shoot itself in the foot by putting features that their laptops already have in an iPad??? If they do many people don't need a laptop
I have two 27" monitors connected to my mac and almost never use apps in fullscreen on either one. lol.
This would be fine with me. I would be worried if they said only for the iPad Pro. Hopefully all these rumors turn out to be true and will work for the Air2. That would really make me happy. All I want now is a keyboard cover option and I will need to pinch myself.
I don't like the concept video's method, but the multi-tasking functionality is well overdue.
Mutli-user login would be so easy to implement. Whoever's finger/login code is used on touchid/passcode lock logs into that user. The apps are the same, but the order on the page and storage for each app is unique.
Mutli-user login would be so easy to implement. Whoever's finger/login code is used on touchid/passcode lock logs into that user. The apps are the same, but the order on the page and storage for each app is unique.
Not with that outdated non-Retina display. The Retina MacBook is the closest Mac running OS X to an iPad Pro, but it's still a different product at a different price, and the iPad Pro is rumored to have more ports than it.
I don't know where you got five years from. Five years ago tablets (as we know them know) just barely existed. Even today it's not like the competing split-screen options are setting the world on fire. They range from mediocre (Windows) to horrible (Samsung). I don't know what Apple will accomplish, but it's hard think of them as behind when the current implementations are mostly junk.
Yes Apple takes longer to implement something. Usually that's because they want to do it better than their competitors.
Nice graphics but too many clicks and popovers.
Ideal UI convention would be a glypth in the bar of supporting apps. You tap the glyph to be presented with a Spotlight search for the app you wish to multitask with.
As someone who's trained a lot of people the more contexts you switch between the quicker they get lost.
Ideal UI convention would be a glypth in the bar of supporting apps. You tap the glyph to be presented with a Spotlight search for the app you wish to multitask with.
As someone who's trained a lot of people the more contexts you switch between the quicker they get lost.
More precisely, the "1/3" and "2/3" splits are about 0.313 and 0.684 respectively from counting pixels, so on a 1024 point iPad display, the "1/3" split comes out to about 320 points, conveniently the width of an iPhone display.
Hopefully iOS 9 tweaks multitasking enough so I can pause Howard stern every time and not lose the spot 9 times out of 10. It drives me insane.
Great advice, except the MacBook Air doesn't have touchscreen, doesn't run my library of iOS apps, costs twice as much, doesn't have 4G, has a lower resolution screen, has a worse camera, weighs more and isn't as portable.