iPadOS 16's Best Feature is Limited to M1 iPads

Lounge vibes 05 said:
This doesn’t actually bother me as much as I thought it would.
The iPad Pro is crazy expensive, it should get more functionality than $329 iPads.
However there is a small caveat.
I am very much annoyed that A12Z iPad Pro‘s that aren’t even two years old don’t get these features.
They use that exact same processor for the Apple Silicon transition kit to run a complete version of macOS, so it is absolutely possible.
It’s a real shame they’re leaving those customers who paid just as much or around the same amount for their 2020 iPad pros as those who purchased the 2021 iPad pros.
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The dev kit had a lot more RAM.
 
_Spinn_ said:
Yeah, Apple is finally starting to take advantage of the power of the M1.
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Either that or Apple wants you to order the new iPad Pro this Fall. The iPad isn't doing so well even with the M1 Chip. Stage Managers should save Apple and capture more of a share. Kudos! to the genius who came up with that.
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Really looking forward to trying this out once the bumps have been smoothed out. Certainly will help the mindset that you do the same on macOS as iPad OS. And my main pro app is launching a full desktop class version at the end of the month that has been fantastic over the beta.
 
TigerNike23 said:
So that pretty much means the $329 iPad is a consumption device, as is the Mini; whereas the Air and Pro's are productivity devices.
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Overlapping resizing windows don't increase productivity.

Feature parity between iPad apps and Mac apps increases productivity, and iPadOS 16 brings the foundation for that to all iPads across the board.
 
fbr$ said:
Hope the main app can take all the screen if I want it to, not only the center of the screen.

The 11" screen is too small to waste it with this left list of recently used apps.
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You can "maximize" individual apps.
The centered app leaves extra space on the right too, i hope it eventually allows you to nudge the window over to that gap.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 said:
Either that or Apple wants you to order the new iPad Pro this Fall. The iPad's isn't doing so well even with the M1 Chip. Stage Manager should save Apple and capture more of a share. Kudos! to the genius who came up with that.

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The iPad is doing extremely well, it's just that everything else is selling even more. That's a revenue chart, anyway. Obviously it takes a lot of $349 iPads (assuming those sell better than pros) to equal $600-$4000+ Macs.
 
Lounge vibes 05 said:
This doesn’t actually bother me as much as I thought it would.
The iPad Pro is crazy expensive, it should get more functionality than $329 iPads.
However there is a small caveat.
I am very much annoyed that A12Z iPad Pro‘s that aren’t even two years old don’t get these features.
They use that exact same processor for the Apple Silicon transition kit to run a complete version of macOS, so it is absolutely possible.
It’s a real shame they’re leaving those customers who paid just as much or around the same amount for their 2020 iPad pros as those who purchased the 2021 iPad pros.
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The same but for different reason.

For me to truly enjoy Stage Manager (or even Split View for that matter), I need a 12.9" screen, not 10.9"/11.0". And I vastly prefer MacBook Air for that screen size.
 
Dumb feature. All they need is to give iPad a desktop MacOS experience which they can already do on a 12.9" and certainly an 11" iPad Pro (they did sell an 11" MacBook Air some 10 years ago). They're just stubborn and won't admit that bringing MacOS to the iPad is worth it but they don't want to cannibalize their laptop sales. By keeping iPad a separate segment - they get double the sales.

It's also why the 13"MacBook Pro with Touch Bar still exists even though nobody really wants it. Apple has a tendency of not admitting when things are wrong or unpopular. Like how they forced to bring back MagSafe or change to scissor switches on keyboards over their flawed Butterfly keys.
 
Le0M said:
I just bought an iPad, and with this non-update Apple already made it obsolete.
No need to say I'm quite angry.
I really hope Apple will reconsider.
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Why? Has it exploded due to the orange sticks of ACME branded dynamite cunningly built into it?

Apple have always done this. It’s in their interest to compel you to view last years product as suddenly rubbish and in need of replacement. I’ve got 7 iPads and whilst that does include a 12 inch M1 pro these changes wont prevent me from using my 10.5 inch pros and minis as my main devices for presentation deliveries. Thats productivity as far as I’m concerned.
 
This was mostly expected. I suspect it's more a RAM issue along with the extra power of the M1. 2018 iPad Pros have 4GB of RAM, unless you have one of the 1TB models which have 6GB. All 2020 models have 6GB. 2021 Pros have 8GB or 16GB depending on your selection, plus the M1 itself... Whether the A series could technically handle it is a different story. They probably can, but not to Apple's performance standards. I'm still holding onto my 2018 11" Pro until they release it with the mini or micro LED displays. M2 is ready so we'll likely see the M2 Pros in the fall.
 
It is normal since its hard on RAM...so having 8gb ram is almost a must. probably 6gb would be enough too but not for the 120hz displays
 
I can see why people are upset but I strongly suspect this is because of the M1’s increased memory (at least 8GB) and support for the new swap feature that was mentioned yesterday too. In short, desktop-like windowing needs a desktop-like CPU. But the good news is that from this point on, all “serious” iPads will have at least the M1.
 
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