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iPadOS 15 Allows Apps to Use Up to 12GB of RAM on High-End iPad Pro, Up From Just 5GB
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I think the Surface is a mess due to how Microsoft handles Windows, not the concept. Apple mocked keyboards for the iPad, until they didn't. They mocked the stylus, until they didn't. They mocked the mouse on a tablet, until they didn't. And at some point we'll get powerful multitasking. It is inevitable; every iPadOS release for the past 4 years gets us one (or two) steps closer. I think we all just want the inevitable to happen a little faster.
The better comparison is how Samsung approaches DEX on their tablets. Set aside the Android vs. iOS bit for a second and I think we'd all admit that design works really well and if Apple did it, the iPad could truly replace a MacBook for a whole lot of users. Clearly there are plenty of people who don't agree pen & touch and multitasking/multiwindowing should be forever kept off the same device.
The key words in Cook's statement are "for very many people." He was not speaking in absolute terms.
I've asked the same question "why would you buy one?" to people who had very simple computer needs. They windup either buying iPads or Chromebooks.
Hell, for some people a $99 Android phone constitutes a computer.
Thanks to lockdowns, Apple has had a blowout year selling Macs. There's NO WAY they're thinking iPads should "replace" them.
There's also no technical reason that both macOS and iPadOS couldn't support touch and pencil, regardless of if a keyboard and mouse are attached or not. Supply both options, and let the users use what they prefer in which situations. I am currently using my MBP sitting on my lap, and can easily reach out and touch my screen, but some hoity toity **** high up in Apple has decided that I shouldn't be able to use the screen w touch or pencil, because it's just "wrong"? Seriously? Why should they even care what I'd prefer, just make it available and let me choose. I know friends who have Windows laptops w touch screens and they love it. They love the ability to control w both keyboard/touchpad, and touch screen.
Both macOS and iPadOS are being held back, and it's ridiculous. Both are good at what they do best, but could be utterly brilliant.
This should be quite helpful for some apps. Though I still think the iPad Pro is under utilized.
Dude serious? You can't see that an iPad Pro 12.9" and a MacBook Pro 16", "combined" is everything one could ever want? Especially when Universal Control (finally) get's here?
That's gonna be insane, FOR LIFE!! Here is the one thing, if you work with Images and Videos, you need ONE Screen that does NOT HAVE "smudges", "fingerprints", "droplets", "streaks", etc on that screen. You need a NO TOUCH screen and one Touch Screen...
I honestly don't get how people don't understand "graphic, photo and video, design." but yet they all SCREAM:
I want PRO, I want PRO!
A touch screen MacBook Pro, is by definition NOT PRO... it's an oxymoron!
gees... laters... 2¢
Minecraft is my biggest deal. Simulating computer circuitry builds and the signals they need to send via render distance in regard to size 1x1; This is tremendous. How many chunks can be held in ram is important to me. 12 GB is game changing. Thank you Apple. Also fyi if you want to utilize those GB of ram fully, close out all your apps, and open the one application that you are wanting to have prime focus and get all ‘12’ GB of that ram. Make sense?
Hey, iMovie is fine for basic edits. But i spent over $2,000 on my maxed out iPad Pro. Luma Fusion is great for editing video. But there are many professionals like myself who are literally begging Apple for an iPad Pro version of Final Cut. We’d gladly pay for it. I know iMovie is enough for most people. But why call it an iPad Pro If you’re not gonna give Professionals what they want & need?
So we’re going from “they never said it” to “many, many people” which is a minority, while in fact he should have said less than 5%. No one is expecting an iPad to perform like a $50k workstation with Xeon Platinum, 1TB+ RAM, much more storage and multiple RTX8000. That’s what I have Dell precision workstations for and for more demanding workloads a GPU cluster. What I expect from an iPad is email, internet, reading for scientific research with the proper tools including annotations, taking notes at the same time, multiple apps open side by side at the same time, the usual import/export workflow and writing papers. Add to that proper video conferencing, etc. These are all workloads which are lightweight when it comes to resources, but window management and lack of connecting external displays with proper support make this unbelievably difficult. Being able to edit a simple video or touch up photos here and there would be a bonus, but not required. I would classify that as simple computer needs.
And that is indeed the problem. They’ve been sitting on their butts for too long. Apple is the new Microsoft. It works for them, no doubt. Their margin is high enough to be very successful financially. They’re losing customers in the professional fields, while gaining casual non demanding users, big thanks to being a ”fashion brand”. no doubt we will get what I described at some point, similar to many others changes they’ve made over the years, “Who needs a stylus?”. The question is, how long is it going to take them. I’m pretty sure we’ll see foldable iPhones before it happens though.
That depends on what your definition of “pro” is. If pro means making money with a device, then they have lots of pro devices. Then even my Apple Watch is pro, because it will alert me when I have to go to my next meeting. But when it comes to resource hungry workflows, then the only only pro thing Apple has is the Mac Pro and the XDR display. And even the XDR display is on the cheap side of things. Sure, you can edit videos on an iPad or MBP or iMac, but is it pro? I don’t know. when thinking pro and video/video work, something like this comes to mind: https://www.thedubstage.com/.
I strongly disagree. I am a professional artist and use the iPad Pro exclusively. I gave away my macbook pro years ago. I know many artists & photographers that use the ipad pro now as their main computer. It comes with 16 gigs of ram now. It can handle Final Cut.
No you guys are using the iPad Pro like a powerful tablet. Same as me.
A computer is one that can handle low level general computation tasks, such as programming and compiling code and scripting. You can’t make an iPad App on an iPad. This alone makes it not a computer.
An iPad is a consumer device. For demanding consumers, there is the iPad Pro. Professional use means technical use.
Why does MacOS when running on an iPad have to be touch screen? It’s not a touch screen OS and I’m cool with that. Going into MacOS would only be an option when a keyboard and trackpad/mouse is connected. When those are disconnected the iPad switches back to iOS.
Let be honest MacOS on an iPad is really only something professionals would need and 98% of users wouldn’t bother.
And for me I’d just like to carry 1 device with me when I’m travelling especially considering they are now identical hardware.
What’s a computer?
