It depends on you definition of “just fine”. I remember when Android phones were able to browse the web “just fine”, but the iPhone held >50% of mobile internet usage with 25% market share.
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Apple's Craig Federighi Further Explains Why Stage Manager is Only for M1 iPads
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If this would be really the case, they could add 2k-4k support to older iPads and 6k to newer, simply as that, but lying is much easier.
What’s next? Ohhh M1 iPads does not support 8k, let’s skip Stage Manager II all together for M1’s and call out people to buy M2’s.
A nice catch the latest tech game. To secure the money flow just build artificial limitations, as they are used to.
But yeah the silverback had to lie, otherwise he would end like Scott Forstall, few people simply likes to climb higher than others.
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If Apple was working on a feature like Stage Manager 16 years ago using 2006 hardware then they should be able to manage it with what they've brought out in the last eight.
Let me complete his statement:
"We really designed Stage Manager to take full advantage [of the M1 chip], and didn’t care of the rest", is what Federighi wanted to say, but he was shut off.
"We really designed Stage Manager to take full advantage [of the M1 chip], and didn’t care of the rest", is what Federighi wanted to say, but he was shut off.
don't launch stage manager on certain ipads => apple is forcing me to upgrade!
launch stage manager but perform worse on ipads => apple is forcing me to upgrade!
launch a lesser manager of stage manager on ipads => apple is forcing me to upgrade!
apple does nothing => hah! ipad OS sucks.
launch stage manager but perform worse on ipads => apple is forcing me to upgrade!
launch a lesser manager of stage manager on ipads => apple is forcing me to upgrade!
apple does nothing => hah! ipad OS sucks.
"What's a computer?" Definitely not something that cannot compete with one.
edit: I'm not sure what "many people buy it and are happy with it" is supposed to mean when every article about Stage Manager gets 500+ comments of people being unhappy with what they've bought
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I have a non-M1 2018 iPad Pro (two actually an 11" and a 12.9").
Frankly, Stage Manager looks gimmicky and not that useful. The screen is too small for genuinely useful windowed multitasking. I could see it being handy from time to time but, like most people, when I need to get real work done, I'll use my Mac.
Why is everyone losing their minds? It's not like your iPad broke!
Frankly, Stage Manager looks gimmicky and not that useful. The screen is too small for genuinely useful windowed multitasking. I could see it being handy from time to time but, like most people, when I need to get real work done, I'll use my Mac.
Why is everyone losing their minds? It's not like your iPad broke!
....or a 6502/6510...
'Because if we don't sell these, we have to bury them in a desert AGAIN!'.
It would be like GM announcing a car that requires a certain type of gasoline or it will instantly stop working. (Actually in the early days of 'automobiles', they would void warranties if you didn't use their recommended brand of oil, no lie, and many people found out how crazy that was) So is the M1 all that and required for that feature, or is it required to allow users to think they have to have the new hotness to get it to work.
Since you can't run that feature on anything but the new hotness, who knows.
It would be like GM announcing a car that requires a certain type of gasoline or it will instantly stop working. (Actually in the early days of 'automobiles', they would void warranties if you didn't use their recommended brand of oil, no lie, and many people found out how crazy that was) So is the M1 all that and required for that feature, or is it required to allow users to think they have to have the new hotness to get it to work.
Since you can't run that feature on anything but the new hotness, who knows.
Truth is iPad sales is flat and they need consumers to pay for the space ship campus so the feature is software gimped on non-M1 models.
For peoples defending Apple, they should consider that a paltry A12Z could handle the full version of MacOS without problems in the developper Mac mini they sent...
It’s a bit depressing that in an Apple forum people still don’t understand what makes the iPad a great product, and why Apple doesn’t implement features just because it’s possible to do it. Yes, windowed multitasking has existed in tablets for many years. No one uses it, because no one has figured out how to do it well. And yes, a PC could multitask with overlapping windows 30 years ago. We also reached the moon with a PC 10000 times less powerful than ours, and I don’t think mine could handle it.
What happened if two apps requested 2 Gb of memory each?
Apple decided to create a Broadway play, you would be happy if they created an amateur theatre.
Actually, this is what you get when it’s run by a bean counter (Tim Cook). They’re driven by numbers, and in their eyes, more models = more sales. Hence the ever confusing lineup (choice of 3 chargers for the M2 Air!). They also hate product cannibalization, hence the lack of clear direction with iPad and Mac.
I think it’s Apple that doesn’t understand what it wants iPad to be. They keep pushing it as a full blown computer but the product feels more like a companion device because of deficiencies in software, yet the thing costs more than most entry-level computers.
A lot of work? Redesign? They could have just limited the number of active apps to half. And it's not just older iPads it's also current non M1 ones and probably future ones too.
Stage Manager was developed and programmed by Apple employees working from home. They we're probably delighted they could take advantage of the M1 without the boring requirement it should work on older iPads.
Why do you support Apple employees when they want to work from home or unionise, but not when they are given a fun project working with the newest stuff?
Many people don't care about Stage Manager, they just want to be able to use an external monitor properly. And they don't need support for 6k displays. Even just 1080p would have been fine.
Apple could have just made half of the Stage Manager apps available to other iPads, and limited the resolution. And owners of non M1 iPads would have been more than happy. And I say this as someone who has an M1 iPad pro.
Apple could have just made half of the Stage Manager apps available to other iPads, and limited the resolution. And owners of non M1 iPads would have been more than happy. And I say this as someone who has an M1 iPad pro.
So you're upset that the device you bought a while ago doesn't have new features.
Your current iPad should still work the same as it did before.
If they were to add this, and it were to drop frames on an older iPad, Apple would get a ton of negative press.
I just mentioned in another post that a while ago there was a jailbreak tweak that made the Ux feel fast simply by disabling or speeding up the animations.
It was awesome.
They could do this with stage manager if that a blocker.
Does your iPad have 16Gb of memory as the DTK had?
I would definitely choose an iPad over an entry-level computer every day. Way more versatile, easier and funnier to use, snappier… I think usually “software deficiencies” are really legacy PC features most iPad users actively avoid.
Yep, just look at the Application Switcher(now Stage Manager) history. It changed its functionality and look more often than a few people changes their underwear. They keep fiddling around to motivate iPad upgrades. They are simply greedy, planed obsolescence.
Oh I see. Well, there are a lot of differences and variables we don’t know. Very hard to make that comparison.