Apple seems to be fairly conservative with the changes it makes to the iPad home screen. Remember how they didn’t let you add widgets to the home screen at first?
I couldn’t tell you why that is, but it seems to be the case.
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I couldn’t tell you why that is, but it seems to be the case.
This kind of thing bugs me about Apple more than ANYTHING. I hate this lack of consistency from them. The ipad should have this too.
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And there’s no one at the management level above both that’s guiding the plan.
Obviously, other companies work differently for example Apple ... I would not be shocked if those two teams are not allowed to know what the other is working on.
Lol, of course.
Can I'm expecting to be disappointed with the iPad implementation of this window resizing options.
Can I'm expecting to be disappointed with the iPad implementation of this window resizing options.
That is exactly what they'll do. It'll be an "amazing new feature for the iPad."
I got into a debate on MR a while back explaining that Apple arbitrarily leaves off features they could implement. Guy was telling me how dumb I am that I don't understand programming or something. Everyone knows Apple leaves off features FOR NO REASON. I still remember how long it took iOS to get copy/paste.
It makes perfect sense on the iPhone and not on the iPad, at least not yet... this is because the next iPhone will have always on display, while the iPad won't.
iOS 14 got App Library, iPadOS didn't get it until iPadOS 15
Tbf, on desktop OS, you can only have one active foreground window to play with, on single monitor, be it linux, macOS or windows. It makes sense to go that way. iPadOS will never have a terminal after all.
When you have much of hobbyist bring out some thing like this.
And Apple is going to bring this out in year or two and say this is new feature this makes me want to sale my iPad.
If Apple is monopoly now and just going to play catch up and take very long time to play catch up than I’m leaving Apple.
This is billion dollar company not much of Linux hobbyist here. I demand better this not hobbyist OS running on skeleton crew of programmers.
This is my point I made above bringing widgets to iOS and iPadOS should not take 6 to 8 years it should take year at the most.
An always on screen, widgets, themes and multitasking is not revolutionary thing that windows, Linux and Android have been doing it for years.
Apple is just being cheap and not hiring many programmers and working with small number of programmers.
Next it take three years for interactive widgets and 6 years to place apps any where on home screen that Android as done for years.
This Apple BS has to stop and company needs new CEO. Apple use to be wow factor and not any more.
Totally! I remember when they spent hours (okay, maybe not hours... but a very long time) presenting the new widget feature for iOS only to NOT including it for the same year's iPadOS update even though it makes actually way more sense on a huge iPad screen. At this point it's safe to say that they only do that so they have something "special" for next year's WWDC which is super annoying.
I’d be happier Apple left out iOS/IPadOS completely from the iPad Pro line
Shock everyone with a Mac tablet.
Shock everyone with a Mac tablet.
It's nonsense like this which has held me off buying Apple for years, just got an iPad and found it can't do CarPlay, it can't work with an Apple Watch, it doesn't have many of the small settings iOS has like battery care, and now won't get new features like this lock screen one.
It has an M1 chip for goodness sake! But Apple don't want people having the best experience on anything other than the most profitable product lines. iOS should have complete parity with iPadOS, it just confuses average consumers.
It has an M1 chip for goodness sake! But Apple don't want people having the best experience on anything other than the most profitable product lines. iOS should have complete parity with iPadOS, it just confuses average consumers.
Full external display support is also limited to just M1 iPads. So there really is not a lot of new stuff for older iPads.
In macOS, one active window yes, but you can also have other unobstructed windows containing data that is completely viewable. It seems the iPad Pro with the M1 cannot perform a feat that I enjoyed on my Commodore 64 w/GEOS
Well this is disappointing that there isn’t any Lock Screen customization options for the iPad OS. I understand that the iPhone is there flagship and the iOS is in essence more important and gets first dibs so to speak, however, this is just laziness on Apple’s part and inconsistent. Maybe I’m wrong but I believe if Jobs was still alive that he would allow the iPad OS getting this among other features at the same time with iOS (If it’s doable). While “new features” are nice and flashy, it’s better if they improved the quality and the consistency of the OS’s... Still wonder why Weather app took 12 years or so to come to iPad OS and the Calculator app… not yet…
Disappointed. At least next year Apple should allow for customisation.
iPad Pro can. The app needs to support multiple instances and the screen estate is far smaller than usual but it is possible.