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iOS 8 Likely to Bring Split-Screen Multitasking to the iPad

Marc-SP said:
Why even mention Samsung and its limited add-on/patch to Android, when the real spearhead in tablets split screen multitasking is Windows 8? 😕

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENZTNdy3zQ

Edit: Following a comment from Roland.g, those sensitive to non-english languages, please mute the video 😛. You can still see how multitaking works in W8.1. If for any reason you are unable to mute the video, put the hands on your ears and say "LALALALALALALALA!" 😀
If you are also sensitive to seeing foreign words, please close your eyes too. 😛
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Samsung was part of the original conversation - I responded to a guy who was countering a post about Samsung.
 
Aluminum213 said:
How the hell is this going to work with past models? Would need AT LEAST 2GB of RAM to run smoothly
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When iOS 4.0 came out with multitasking, Apple simply did not enable it in older devices with less memory.

They would likely do the same for multi-windows.

Besides, Apple always has a few things that everyone knows can usually work on older devices, but that is left out to make people upgrade.

And if anybody can come up with appealing multi-window usage examples in an ad, Apple can.

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DeathChill said:
No, no, no! You've got it all wrong. It's much easier if we just forget that the forum is made up of over 890,000 members, all with differing opinions. Anytime somebody likes something Apple does they must have hated it before Apple did it and are just changing their mind because it's Apple. It's just much easier to moan about fanboys that way. 😉
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There's "ample evidence" for you being right 🙂 .
 
jacobj said:
I want it on the iphone. Or at least I want to be able to push an app to a small window whilst I use the main bulk of the screen.

I love the way it works in the YouTube app, but would like to be able to keep the small video running whilst using other apps - especially safari. When researching using a video app, it allows you to use the web to search on an idea whilst continuing to listen. Like doing a web search in a lecture hall.
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You won't get it on the iPhone, it's to help distinguish it from the iPad

Apple wants people to buy both
 
kdarling said:
When iOS 4.0 came out with multitasking, Apple simply did not enable it in older devices with less memory.

They would likely do the same for multi-windows.

Besides, Apple always has a few things that everyone knows can usually work on older devices, but that is left out to make people upgrade.

And if anybody can come up with appealing multi-window usage examples in an ad, Apple can.

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Fortunately, we can JB and use windowing tweaks like Quasar (iOS5) / OS Experience (iOS7)...
 
Why would anyone complain about an added feature?

Even if not used by all, or even most, the fact that it is there for those that would use it makes it worth having.

It is better to have and not need than to need and not have.

That said, I understand the sentiments against it.

Self-centeredness, after all, is one of the most basic human traits and not everyone trains themselves to resist it.
 
DeathChill said:
No, no, no! You've got it all wrong. It's much easier if we just forget that the forum is made up of over 890,000 members, all with differing opinions. Anytime somebody likes something Apple does they must have hated it before Apple did it and are just changing their mind because it's Apple. It's just much easier to moan about fanboys that way. 😉
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It keeps the trolls in business to perpetuate the lie that apple users flip flop every time apple says something different. Now of course, they're easily proven wrong, but they'd be bored if they had to admit that 😀
 
Trapezoid said:
It keeps the trolls in business to perpetuate the lie that apple users flip flop every time apple says something different. Now of course, they're easily proven wrong, but they'd be bored if they had to admit that 😀
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A lie? So there aren't any Apple users who do that? ... Apple doesn't have fanboys? 😕
 
pgiguere1 said:
That someone is me!

Seriously though, this would require more RAM as two apps would have to be kept active. If Safari for iPad already struggles to keep a couple tabs opened without refreshing when you switch between them, I can't imagine what it would be like if you have, say, a game running next to it and using lots of RAM as well.

At least the way it is currently, an app in background can easily free some memory by releasing all the visual stuff that can be reconstructed when the app comes in foreground again (that's what UIViews typically do when they receive a low memory warning). With this split-screen feature, the two active apps would have to "share" memory all the time even down to the visual elements.
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The iPad has needed more ram for quite some time now.
 
melendezest said:
Why would anyone complain about an added feature?

Even if not used by all, or even most, the fact that it is there for those that would use it makes it worth having.

It is better to have and not need than to need and not have.

That said, I understand the sentiments against it.

Self-centeredness, after all, is one of the most basic human traits and not everyone trains themselves to resist it.
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This is the age old question around here.

People really get worked up when they are given options. 🙂
 
rotax said:
Hopefully you will be able to airplay one app to an external display while running another on the iPad. Great for watching a movie and using the iPad for anything else at the same time
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This can already be done in iOS, when it comes to audio and video, as long as the app supports it. Up to the developer of the app to allow it or not. Example: Netflix does, YouTube does not.
 
afsnyder said:
We have Surface Pros at school and I've never used the tiles.
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So I guess you use it with keyboard and mouse, or at least the pen, like an ultrabook. Then I understand you don't use the modern apps so much.
I do use several modern apps on my old laptop (mail, weather, calendar...) and I really like their clarity an simplicity. I don't need more clutter. But of course that's just my personal preference.

Still, I think you should give a try to the tiles even if you don't use the modern apps. You can see the pending emails, messages, appointments, news, the weather... in just a glance to the screen. I don't see any downside to it, as i does no affect any of the things you do in the desktop. 🙂
 
Aluminum213 said:
You won't get it on the iPhone, it's to help distinguish it from the iPad

Apple wants people to buy both
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I hope you're wrong. Apple always claim it is about the user and a need. I need it on the iphone. If it comes to the iPad only and eventually comes to the iphone then I fear you are right and it will be proof that Apple handicap a device unnecessarily to promote another, only to give in in the end. They will of course reference some previous hardware difference that made it initially impossible.
 
Reason077 said:
Ugh. Do we really need this? It's the kind of feature where the idea seems better than the reality. The vast majority of users would never bother with it.

The iPad needs multi-user support much more desperately.
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Multi user support? For what? It's a personal device, not a laptop. I wish people would stop expecting tablets to be laptops. As Steve J once said, it's an I pad not a We pad. 😉
 
On such a small screen? I doubt it. And what would you do with the keyboard? Not to mention no apps support actively resizing themselves.
 
s2mikey said:
Multi user support? For what? It's a personal device, not a laptop. I wish people would stop expecting tablets to be laptops. As Steve J once said, it's an I pad not a We pad. 😉
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An iPhone is a personal device, certainly. It spends most of the time in your pocket.

An iPad however, is not. In my household, iPads tend to sit around on coffee tables or in the kitchen and get shared.
 
I missed, this bit : "it only works in landscape"

more real estate ok, but its a limitation right there...

what if you prefer to use your iPad in portrait mode mode ?

Secondly, this would only copy text right ? from one document to the other ? Contrary to Apple's security i still doubt it would make this split screen easier to copy and paste passwords, (i dunno), because currently, you switch away to copy and when you return to the app (mail.app in this case) to paste the remaining password, its blank...

This split screen would be a good feature if password copy makes this easier alone.
 
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Trapezoid said:
Oh we're moving goalposts...got it. Would you like to point out where I said apple doesn't have fanboys?
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I'm not moving the goalposts. You said that nobody changes their position to line up with Apple's changes. ie. There isn't anybody who was against a 7" iPad because Apple said it was a bad idea and then said it was a good idea when Apple released the mini.

There are fanboys (of any company, not just Apple) who do that. Do you disagree with that? So your insistence that nobody here has done that makes the claim that there are no fanboys. I thought that was pretty obvious.
 
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