Fair enough. Make it a Pro feature only. That way apple can feel satisfied to not cannibalize too much. But make it a feature. There clearly is demand and people, like me, are willing to pay for a pro iphone to get this feature.
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Same here. Just got myself a pro and tbh, it does need a few more unique things to make it "pro". Not just a better cam and 120hz screen.
Or differentiate it so that the regular can hook up to one screen and the pro can utilize two external screens or something like that. A bit like the Macbook air and Macbook pro.
I have not used it on iPad at all, but on the Mac it's for keeping groups of windows separate, maybe if each group is associated with a certain task. Let's say I have Slack and email and calendar in one group -- and then in another group I have a Finder window plus two documents related to a specific task. Maybe there's another group that has three other documents related to a separate task.
I tend to get a bit irritated if there are like six million windows open on my screen, so I'm usually looking for some way to organize them. I used to use the multiple desktops feature in Mission Control (or "Exposé" before that) to keep things grouped. Stage Manager is in its way another version of that.
I think it's a promising idea for those who want to work this way, but the implementation is kind of rough and it's lacking some features that would make it work better. My hunch, unfortunately, is that it's pretty far down Apple's priority list and they're just letting it rot in this half-finished state before they kill it a few years down the road. I would love to be wrong about this, but it's been out for a couple years now and hasn't seen any added features.
Yeah, given that only the iPhone Pro has a USB-C 3.1 at 10gbps, and the base iPhone has only a USB-C 2.0 port, then, that’s another clue that they might restrict this “docking solution” to the Pro models.
Also, you mention some of the few differentiators between an iPhone and an iPhone Pro, but one of those differentiators, the high refresh rate, is going to disappear as soon as next years iPhone 17 comes with one.
So, yes, if they implement this solution, it is likely that it will be only applied to the Pro models.
I’ve never been an iPhone Pro customer, tbh. I always prefer smaller, and lighter devices. And this feature won’t change my mind, because I am the owner of an awesome M2 iPad Pro with 1TB and 16GB of RAM that I already use connected to the external monitor. However, if I didn’t have the iPad Pro, this feature would definitely make me think about buying an iPhone Pro. From the business standpoint, it makes sense.
Yea what happened here. When they did the iPadOS presentation i was hoping they would say the iphone Pro can do this too, but nothing. In fall it would be strange if just the 17 Pro would get this feature if the 15 and 16 pro are more than capable of doing it too. Also again the lack of multi app support is just sad. I want to be able to film and and see my Notes at the same time, why would that not be possible?
Apple tend to make some peculiar decisions.
I feel like brain implants will be commonplace by the time iOS finally adopts what we consider today as standard features.
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Im thinking with the recent vapour chamber rumour that it might just be a heat thing - that Apple doesn’t want phones to be red hot when used as a desktop. Maybe the 17s will be better at that? We will know more in three months time
