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Apple's Craig Federighi Further Explains Why Stage Manager is Only for M1 iPads
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I'm old enough to remember when Macrumors was for Apple fans. Now it seems the forums are full of trolls who spend a lot of time following Apple just to hate on them. In spite of all the back in forth in this forum, most people using their older products will not know or care what Stage Manager is. The people who can get it will probably like it. Power users who will find it more important will have devices that can run it.
It’s just normal progress. The A12/A13 on the 8th/9th gen is faster than the A10X on the 2017 Pro, and the A15 on the mini 6 is on par with A12X/A12Z on the 2018/2020 Pros.
A calendar app, calculator, notes and a clock, wow.
Again, it comes down to app sizes. Procreate can take up to 5Gb RAM alone. What about LumaFusion, Nomad, Clip Studio Paint, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, etc. These are desktop-class apps. Try running them on a computer with 4Gb RAM, and have it be instantly responsive.
The answer is, Apple wants to differentiate the products.
Very disappointed in this development. Not so much for stage manager but the lack of external display support for older devices. A jail broken device can manage this software feat, so I don’t buy this excuse. This is lazy product development. I miss the days where even the older hardware got a taste of new features, though limited. My 1 year old device might not run 6k but it sure can run a 1080 or 1440p device, probably even 4K. I hope Apple listens and adjust course. As is, my workflow is mostly on my M1 MBP and my iPad is used as an external secondary display.
This should reflect negatively on their environmental score. This forced obsolescence is gross.
This should reflect negatively on their environmental score. This forced obsolescence is gross.
I had Galaxy Note 10.1, I can tell you that it's nothing like what iPad Pro stage manager can do.
It's not even as functional as the iOS 14 multitask implementation.
I have the PSVR for games and ain’t sure why I need a stand-alone (rumored) AR/VR headset yet.
But I will let Hair Force One inspire me in the keynote.🤓
A fair explanation, and unless anyone here is an Apple engineer who somehow knows something that the rest of us don't, claims that stage manager could just as easily work on older devices remains pure speculation and not absolute fact, and it's worth bearing this in mind.
It is going on 4 years since the A12X debuted in the iPad Pro back in 2018. Your Z didn’t change anything besides enable an additional gpu core which was akin to insignificant and relatively underpowered for longevity sake the A5X was to the A5 when the iPad 3rd gen (retina debuted) it got chopped from support early where as the subsequent A6X iPad 4th gen had solid legs up until iOS dropped 32bit support entirely with iOS 10 I believe.
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Hair Force one and wearing that Apple AR/VR is going to be the best thing this world will see.
I am really hoping it is just beta software. I can see a lot potential here that has not been shown in videos.
For example, everyone is assuming it will be useless with 11 inch ad the left pane. Once you resize a window 80,90% it gets out of the way.
The experience is profoundly different on an external 27". With text resizing, having Safari and Slack side by side looks and feels like a Mac experience. None of that bloaty comically over-sized experience we've had in the past. The text resizing makes a difference. But some apps need to fix for it because it is like a responsive web page. Where one line text comment fields become 4 row multi text areas.
A few things though. They need to figure out a way to close/kill apps in stage manager mode. When an app crashes, all I see is a black box and it is annoying.
The issue is Apple is calling you a moron by giving you a BS excuse instead of being honest.
Not correct. People have been able to execute pre-emptive multitasking on a windowed operating system since at least the day the Amiga 500 launched. That had 1MB of and ran on a ~7MHz Motorola 68000.
FURTHER BACK...look up a video of Pieces of Light. Multitasking demo running on a Commodore 64. 1 MHz processor with 64KB. I'm still in awe of the work on that one.
I would file a bug report or many on your various findings. This is invaluable info I am sure they could use to improve.
They could make more people happy by sustaining older hardware to handle newer software „frills and thrills“ if they wanted to.
As one reader pointed out above, why would it not be good enough to have just 2 apps open if that would keep the 2017-2020 iPad Pro in the game. Surely, iOS can detect which gen iPad P it runs on, then implement Stage Manager accordingly. It is as it is with so many other hardware that could live longer: It is neglected so that more people „upgrade“ to the newer, in this case the M1 iPad Pro. The climate-change age hyprocisy of kicking up electronic waste while tapping yourself on the shoulder for 100% clean energy … Apple is not the only one but one of them nonetheless …
Ah yes, cynicism. Where those with nothing to add but their own false sense of superiority feel most at home.
At this point a jailbreak tweak is not a matter of “if” but “when”.
From a technical stand point, what's the difference between having those windows always on the side, and the multitasking before Stage Manager came to be on iPad? Because those app running in the background are just there, waiting for me to bring them back up, with incredibly smooth transitions, shadows, etc. on my 350€ iPad.
