20 years and you think you work better without an actual keyboard to access tools and functions via shortcut keys?
Talk about cope. Have a good day.
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iPadOS 26.1 Beta 2 Reintroduces Slide Over Multitasking
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20 years and you think you work better without an actual keyboard to access tools and functions via shortcut keys?
Talk about cope. Have a good day.
That's like asking for an iPod classic click wheel to have a functionality of an iPhone. Ridiculous 😂
15 years and the Mac is still growing. Keep chiming on that argument though. I'm sure the multitasking is the final nail in the coffin for Macs! 😂
Moving on.
That's not a counterpoint to any statement I made.
And decades of engineering multitasking resulted in zero extra value for me as an iPad user.
Detachment is what compromises the entire system. Regarding real work, MacBook Air covers more bases than IPP's promotion screen.
It is not more portable to do serious work. "More fun to use" is not what's being argued.
Your comparison is certainly ridiculous but it's out of touch with the reality of what people are wanting.
And you seem to misunderstand, it's not that mac sales in particular or ipad sales in particular would be cannibalized, as it depends on how and if apple bridges that gap, as to how sales are impacted but the expectation would be fewer devices would be needed as currently those who want and can afford both functionality buy both devices.
A mac with touch functionality would diminish ipad sales and an ipad with mac functionality would, if it isn't already, diminish mac sales.
PC/mac sales ratio has diminished over the years partly due to the rise in content creation/creative fields in addition to corporate segment expansion but that's hardly relevant here.
You illustrate with a pencil / stylus not a keyboard, have a great day yourself.
There is indeed a room for improvement with Apple implementation of split screen in iPadOS 26. For example :
* you cannot drag a windows from the dock to the side of the screen so it automatically take half of the screen.
* on the sub menu under the green light, when it is called from an app in full screen, the ‘organize’’ section (second row) leads to the same results as the ‘’resize’’ section : the app will occupy one side of the screen, and nothing more. A better behavior would be :
- if there is an hidden app under the full screen app, put it on the other side of the screen
- if there is no other « active » app, same behavior as iPadOS 18 (let you choose an other app from the home screen)
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the old way was you dragged an app icon from the App Library or Dock onto an app that was already running to enable Split View or Slide over depending on what part of the screen you dragged it too. Or at least that’s how I did it
Ok so why would the iPad Pro need to exist if we should just do ‘iPad things’ on it?
Macs are more expensive. Not everyone can afford a Mac.
Why does an iPad need to exist to do iPad things? I think it's self explanatory.
I imagine the devs are primarily Mac users. Kids are not using SlideOver. Executives, yes.
Stage Manager is for people trying to replace their Mac with an iPad. Probably an edge case.Apple execs already knew it was “coming back”. The development process has many milestones and this iteration of SlideOver wasn’t intended for the initial release. And, they’ve likely been using Stage Manager instead of SlideOver anyway and never missed it!
Huh? You can buy a new MacBook Air for half the price of an iPad Pro+keyboard.
The iPad does plenty of things better than a Mac, watching YouTube in a native app instead of a web browser, for example. Or any of the other million or so native apps that do not run on a Mac. Plus built-in 5G and a far superior display.
It’s actually better now, because it even works on the Home Screen. Give it a try.
Just noticed this. I usually only use one SlideOver app (messages), so I’m fine right now, but I’d guess / hope they include the multiple SlideOver app functionality in one of the next few betas. Maybe they should make this work in full-screen mode as well (it probably belongs more in that mode than in the windowed mode anyways) – I’d trade the app resize handle for the bottom slider / app switcher bar any day.
Just tested it out too. I appreciate a form of slide over is retuning but I’m exasperated that it’s still more cumbersome than the previous iteration (and what’s with all that dead border space). I agree with you that it feels like it belongs more in the full screen mode than windowed, and in no way would it detract from that mode because if you didn’t want to use it it would not interfere with any operations or swipe gestures.
I only have one iPadOS 26-compatible device at the moment, a 32 GB iPad 8. I’m dusting it off to play with the new beta because frankly it performed poorly in the beta windowed modes so I lost interest. I guess I’ll give it another go. At some point I’ll get a more modern iPad, this will have to do for now.
I’m definitely gonna try it!
But it’s in the beta right now, and I don’t want to download a beta to my primary devices, but soon🙂
so people are out here buying ipad pro’s and ipad air’s with M3/M4 chips just to run 2 apps in splitview and 1 kinda but not kinda useless window in slideover??? the ipad would just feels like a useless and more expensive amazon fire HD tablet.
There is a terminal command to revert to launchpad but idk if i can post it here though.
There are just about no apps which push the Pros to their processor limits, this has been the case on iPhone and iPads for years and it tends to be the other specs around them which attract various users.
There are… but it depends in what use case. Gaming is probably the only one which people actually enjoy while it also pushes the processor to its limits.
creativity apps like davinci resolve or adobe do have there video editing apps but its just so limited compared to the desktop experience which makes it a lot harder to use.
Other than that, before ipadOS 26, there was just no incentive to really build and optimise apps for the ipad due to it being restrictive.