I already shared my complaints about leaving Ipad owners in the dust with just a 2 year old ipad but I find a common theme in this forum and that is that there is a sizeable base of fanboys who attack others for criticizing Apple products or software. It is not as simple as just buy the product Apple is trying to get you to buy - many people have limited incomes and can’t buy every new iteration of the Ipad, and I know many have been told by MacRumors there is no need for the M1 Ipad when it rolled out because of lack of pro software and then IOS rolls out one year later with software that does not play well with 75% of the Ipad user base. Have some compassion for fellow Ipad users.
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Apple's Craig Federighi Further Explains Why Stage Manager is Only for M1 iPads
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No. You missed the point. You can't point to something being a way as justification for it being that way.
I think this is a big reason for it only working on M1. The apps in stage manager are actually open and running, its not a screen shot like it is in the switcher. If someone opened a large app, and 3 other apps had to close out of the stage manager, due to lack of memory, the user would have a very poor experience. It would feel like the feature was broken. I have apps close all the time in the back ground, but they just relaunch when I "bring them to the foreground", so it's not as noticeable.
Don't forget. These same people said 'buy a mini if you want Apple to make them.' Now they are saying 'you shouldn't have purchased the iPad you wanted.'
This is extremely funny. I don't care how iPadOS works, if my Windows laptop with such outdated processor can run multi-windows with 4K display, then there is no reason iPad Pro with A12X above can't run multi-windows.
How else would you say a 2018 MacBook Air which is clearly less powerful than iPad mini being introduced last year and still capable to run stage manager?
You mean beside the incredible success of being the worlds most valuable company. I don't think that's where Apple was 25 years ago.
The big chunk of the computational load is ensuring that apps are can be switched on at lightning-fast speed. However, the animations are also important to the feature looking (feeling) intuitively correct.
You'd like to have iPads working fine standalone but losing capabilities when connected to an external monitor? That makes the iPad a complicated system to explain to users. It also makes "function robbing" external monitors much harder to sell. This suggestion of "runtime optional" is the actual thing that sounds just ridiculous.
Have the functionality work on a per-product basis. That is the only rational way for Apple to play this. If you develop your own family of chips, products, and software, feel free to set it up with bunches of cute "runtime optional" features. Make sure to include training modules on how to explain the interplay of all those options to all sales and support staff. And prepare yourself for a raft of complaints from customers. 😬 #IncludeMeOut
Samsung S8 Ultra does something similar through Dex Mode. Is Federighi saying the non M1 iPads have lesser powerful SOCs than Samsung S8 Ultra? This is pure greed from Apple.
Again, if the performance is the issue, then explain how the Intel MacBook air can do it.
If there's an actual hardware required for stage manager, eg a controller that is not available on previous gen ipads, why can't just they say so? Why made up all of this as if performance is the issue? The previous gen ipad already have desktop class components, including nvme storage. How's that not enough performance, while the Intel MacBook air is fine?
If performance of the M1 is required, then Apple wouldn't have enabled it on the much inferior Intel Mac. But they did.
If there's an actual hardware required for stage manager, eg a controller that is not available on previous gen ipads, why can't just they say so? Why made up all of this as if performance is the issue? The previous gen ipad already have desktop class components, including nvme storage. How's that not enough performance, while the Intel MacBook air is fine?
If performance of the M1 is required, then Apple wouldn't have enabled it on the much inferior Intel Mac. But they did.
Exaggerating a bit, don't you think? "Leaving iPad owners in the dust"? You'd think Stage Manager were now required to use your 2 year old iPad. It certainly wasn't a couple of weeks ago. If it's a "fanboy attack" to point that out, I don't know what to tell you.
I'm sure "Dex Mode" runs on other Samsung tablets, but the tablet you chose has 50-100% more RAM than any of the older iPads people are complaining about.
There is an expectation, through experience and Apple's own accounting practices, that their customers are prepaying for software updates as part of purchasing Apple hardware. Not delivering the full update to some customers is at best misleading.
People complain because Apple was “underutilizing” M1.
Apple develops a feature that utilizes and pushes M1…people complain.
Face it…people love to complain. And this is from someone who can’t use it because I don’t have an M1 iPad!
Apple develops a feature that utilizes and pushes M1…people complain.
Face it…people love to complain. And this is from someone who can’t use it because I don’t have an M1 iPad!
The Samsung S8 Ultra has 16 GB RAM and iOS devices has no RAM at all (besides M1 iPads as they have 8GB or 16GB RAM).
Buying something based on what may or may not come to it at a later date isn’t exactly a smart purchase. Better off purchasing for what it can do “now”.
Ok…and yet it’s still not anyone else’s fault except their own that they purchase based on what they “think” is coming. If you purchase a product based on rumors or ideas of what MIGHT come to it…prepare to be disappointed more often than not.
If you mean geekbench 5 on M3-7Y32 in 2017 Macbook, it’s around 700/1500 if you check on geekbench
You said fault, but I think you mean fraud. The customer was sold an iPad and future OS updates. Not delivering is fraud, not fault.
MacBooks don’t crash if they run out of RAM like iOS devices do.
I even have apps reloading on my M1 12.9 iPad Pro with 8GB RAM.
And they got a future OS update. Fraud would be promising an update and not getting one at all. You can be as upset as you want. But you were promised an OS update, which you‘re getting. You weren’t promised Stage Display. I was promised future OS updates for my Intel Mac. I wasn’t promised some 3D globe in Maps 🤷♂️ The update is promised. The contents of it are not.
Show us where Apple promised that any given iPad (or iPhone) would support all features of a future iOS update?
The 3D globe in Apple Maps is also another arbitrary removal by Apple that has nothing to do with the processing capabilities of the computer. They're just purposely trying to get people to migrate to Apple Silicon, which is understandable, but they don't need to make up ridiculous lies to justify it.