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iPad Air just got old, SplitView only available on the iPad Air 2
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Hahahaha! Until next year. Tech devices are the furthest thing from future proof.
I think it is a great lesson for those who were trusting Apple to make the right decision wrt hardware configuration. No matter how trustworthy a company is (or appears to be) one must still do their homework.
It's a pretty clear case of profit margins before consumer confidence and user experience. It's a a glaring feature not hitting previous devices because Apple released RAM starved products.
It's not like hundreds of people on this forum haven't been commenting about lack of RAM for a couple of years now.
I drew a line in the sand last year and committed to staying away from iOS devices with 1GB RAM because I knew getting screwed was highly likely in the near future.
I got the Air 2 Wi-Fi last year but really wanted the mini and LTE. I exchanged it for the Mini 3 and have been very happy with it. Since I am planning to get a 6S plus I may sell my mini 3 and get a Air 2 LTE. I really want multi-tasking on an iPad. When I was deciding on whether or not I should do it, I just couldn't be without fingerprint reader and most of all LTE. If I had the 6 plus already, I may have tried to make it work financially and gotten the 64GB Air 2 LTE and stick with it.
Wow...I have wanted true multitasking on iPad since the first jailbreak tweak back in the day.
I feel ecstatic, for want of a better term, that my instincts told me to get the Air 2 instead of the Mini 3 when I upgraded my iPad mini 1 in February.
I think I guessed something was coming since iOS 8 barely touched the potential of the A8X chip and its 2GB of RAM.
I feel ecstatic, for want of a better term, that my instincts told me to get the Air 2 instead of the Mini 3 when I upgraded my iPad mini 1 in February.
I think I guessed something was coming since iOS 8 barely touched the potential of the A8X chip and its 2GB of RAM.
I am on the beta right now and I have an iPad Mini 3 (only got it because of a Verizon promo). While it would have been WONDERFUL to have split screen, I underestimated how useful "Slide Over" was going to be. I can browse in Safari, swipe over make a quick to do list and get back to browsing. It works well and isn't clumsy. PIP works just as well. iOS 9 definitely added a new depth of productivity to the iPad Mini that it seriously lacked before.The iPad Air 2 is clearly the winner but the second place prize is far from meager.
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Can you test if any iPhone only app would work fine with Slide Over?
Like TweetBot or Fantastical (iPhone version) or any Camera app that are iPhone only.
I have registered for public Beta but that's in July.
I wouldn't say that. It's not the best tablet, but it doesn't aspire to be. The latest version isn't that bad as a tablet.
IMO, the iPad is the best "tablet," while the Surface is a better computer in tablet form.
I think sracer is right because it utilizes the auto-layout function implemented with iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. With slide over you're getting the iPhone version of an app next to the iPad. It may not work like that with some iPad only apps though, I would think they'd have to do 50/50 to retain their layouts.
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As for the topic. With iOS needing 40% or so of available RAM and constant app/tab refreshes, was anyone really expecting the iPad Air to get this?
Same here. But then again I upgrade my phones ever year. But not so with the iPad. I expect to keep my iPad Air 2 for another 2 years. Pretty sure that iOS 12 will be released for it.
totally agree.
after ipad air 2 was announced, i waited until ifixit confirmed 2gb of ram and ordered it 5 minutes later.
1 gb was the main reason i have not bought iphone 6, and will be the same for iphone 6s if it will ve stuck with 1 gb too. but i don't think it will gonna happen.
I doubt this is a physical limitation of the iPad Air's 1GB RAM as the feature seems to work on the iPad mini 3, which has almost identical hardware.
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Oddly enough, you can work with multiple apps now by swiping between open ones with a quick side swipe gesture. And, my air works fine for me and always has. This concept of multiple windows being open and actively worked on at the same time has been overstated as being the end all in life. The screen is only so big. How many apps are you really going to be actively working on at the same time?
I know, I know, "my job requires it" or "I'm a eh-hem power user". Great. Enjoy having 7 apps on screen at once. The rest of us will just have to suffer.
Please.
Working out great, thanks. We appreciate your concern regarding this matter. Who's they and what are they right about anyways?
If my pos Galaxy S3 can run two programs at the same time on the screen, so can an Ipad Air/Mini 2/Iphone 6(+).
Ipad sales are down big time and Apple wants you to upgrade instead of offering it on other models other than the Air 2. Good thing I did and chose the Air 2 over the Air. Not very happy that my 128gb ip6+ won't be compatible though.
Ipad sales are down big time and Apple wants you to upgrade instead of offering it on other models other than the Air 2. Good thing I did and chose the Air 2 over the Air. Not very happy that my 128gb ip6+ won't be compatible though.
Flat out, if the iPhone 6S drops with 1gb, it's an instant no-go for purchase. I'm exceptionally happy with my Galaxy S6 and it's for Apple to actually make an effort and earn my iPhone business again.
I'm in for a new MacBook Pro, maybe an iPad, but the iPhone is going to need to step up big time in September for me to change over...that also means no Apple Watch.
From the Capt. Obvious dept.: iOS is different than Android
I might agree with your view that this is nothing more than a cynical money-grab by Apple except for the fact that iPads prior to the Air 2 (that have 1GB RAM or less) can barely handle 3 browser tabs without issue for many people.
I think it is more likely that their liberal window of what devices they allow to upgrade to newer versions of iOS (that negatively impact performance and stability) are to get people to upgrade to new devices.
Having said that, you are correct in that Samsung devices (with lower specs than the iPad) have offered multi-window support... and have done so for years. I have a few Samsung tablets and found multiwindow very helpful.
Background playing of one app is not an alternative to multitasking.
IOS 9 is available for Ipad 2, so at least the Air 2 will get IOS 13 or maybe IOS 14.... And IOS 10 will be availabe for the Ipad 2,, the Ipad that never gets ditched
I'm watching the official recording of WWDC, and at the 66:20 mark, Federighi says that Apple provides developer APIs to allow apps to work that way (PIP, SplitView, etc.) which leads me to believe that apps need to be modified/written to utilize those capabilities.
bummer if true.
Indeed i'm also very happy to at least get 'Slide Over' and 'Picture-in-Picture' option on iPad Air, iPad mini 2,3 to see e.g twitter/facetime/whatsapp/Youtube chat next to e.g. mail, browser, YouTube. At 9to5 they posted a nice Hands-on.
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Understandably it is normal to be upset when your current hardware gets outtdated (the way I will feel about my iPhone 6 in a few months when the 6S comes out), but surely you must admit the Air 1 got outtdated a little too quickly? Generally a year old iOS device can run all the new features when a new iOS is released a year later. For example, iPhone 5 released with iOS 6 but fully ran iOS 7 a year later.
This might be the first time in iOS history where all the features of iOS won't run on a one year old device. I'm counting on this to happen with my iPhone 6 later this year because it too has only 1GB RAM.
Understandably it is normal to be upset when your current hardware gets outtdated (the way I will feel about my iPhone 6 in a few months when the 6S comes out), but surely you must admit the Air 1 got outtdated a little too quickly? Generally a year old iOS device can run all the new features when a new iOS is released a year later. For example, iPhone 5 released with iOS 6 but fully ran iOS 7 a year later.
This might be the first time in iOS history where all the features of iOS won't run on a one year old device. I'm counting on this to happen with my iPhone 6 later this year because it too has only 1GB RAM.