Cook is waaaayyyyy too focused on public perception and shareholder sentiment. He’s also the guy that would argue in meetings why they couldn’t just keep the same USB2.0 slot because when he polled users against USB3.0, they didn’t really notice the difference in speed. He’s always cared more about shaving off pennies per unit than he cares about actually spending the money and time to refine products and make them compelling. Hell he has no idea how technology even fits into our lives his interviews are perfect evidence of that; he’s never said anything insightful or even worth contemplating. His entire public image is one big commercial for Apple products written by marketing that he’s committed to memory. “We here at Apple believe…”, “This new iPhone takes the perfection…”, “We think you’ll really love the new iPad, now here’s…”. Jobs definitely was unique in that he did bring a lot of spirituality and integrity to Apple. All of which made a great dynamic against Jobs, who would almost tank companies to make “perfect” products.
I do agree with you about how tim cook has become almost like a shill for apple but the USB 2.0? I mean unless there is something to utilise with USB 3.0 speeds like with the ipad and its external display, there isn't much reason to move over.
It is. Quantifiably. To get Liquid Glass working, Apple had to add a graphical shader to the UI. This comes on top of all the blur and existing shaders. If you’ve ever played games on emulators and used shaders like Geom or CRT type effects, you understand and appreciate how expensive they are. Apple’s LG uses multiple effects, from gamma shifts, to warping and blurs. I have no doubt future SoC will offload much of that work to specific hardware clusters (similar to video encoding and decoding) to improve performance, but you can’t come close with software. Anyone that’s ever tried to play a game using software rendering should be nodding incessantly right now.
I'm on iPadOS26.1 beta 3 on my base ipad A16 and throughout most of the beta software, I've had higher than average geek bench scores compared to iPadOS 18.
What i don’t get is, you didn’t tell your son that he could arrange his apps as quarter- monitor on his external monitor since ipados16? Kept it as a secret? I just still don’t understand why you’re presenting this like this is new functionality. I get that it’s probably better ( ?) now but.. it was doable before, you said you knew about it so what gives? I still haven’t installed ipados26 after all the bugs I am reading about and it seems i won’t for a while or untill split view and slideover get reinstated, so i still don’t get the difference.How dare you actually enjoy all of the improvements and flexibility added in 26The other day I FaceTimed my son and asked what he was doing. He turned the camera around and showed that he had is M1 12.9 IPP connected to a 27" external monitor. On the monitor he had 4 apps "quartered". He had a video window showing the MLB playoffs, Safari, Google Docs and some other app for school. On his iPad he had iMessage and WhatsApp split screen. I said "Oh, I see you are being productive LOL".
yes there was quarter arranged windows back in ipadOS 16 but that was in stage manager which was a mess back back then (and currently still is) and nowhere as good as windowed mode currently. The new functionality now is that you can place the windows anywhere you want instead of a set position and aren't restricted to 5 app windows.
Well, i’ve asked you indeed and you just described that windows are now fully resizable which sounds meh since they were already adjustable to a great degree and they can now take up the full screen instead of leaving some space around the monitor which is also ok since the space gained is a few pixels wide. Using infinite apps also doesn’t sound exciting to me since 4 on the external and three on the ipad have always been more than enough. That just doesn’t justify the excitement for me and i am extremely curious by your enthusiasm, i have been onboard ios since the iphone 2, counting down the hours to each update. This year has been disappointing for me and I’m only trying to find any reasons to install 26, that’s why i’m asking. I just can’t afford to lose my ipad use if i absolutely hate it, especially since i won’t be able to downgrade. External monitor support has been huge for me for the last years, (but so has splitview and slideover) it’s been the reason i got a 4k monitor and i even switched to a 13 inch ipad again for the second time after my ipad pro 1st gen 12.9 of 2015, so i could take notes and keep references while reading pdfs on the monitor. I mean i invested on using it a certain way. So i’ll have to wait and see, ok.
apps are limited to 12 but its dependant on RAM amount
There are always store devices which are updated to the latest OS and can let you try out the software. If you are scared to upgrade then maybe try the store devices first to gauge an opinion on it.
I don’t have stores around me that would showcase an ipad on an external monitor to verify how much better this all is, which would be the only reason i would ever consider upgrading and having to deal with the new windowing system on touch when off the monitor. It would have to make a great difference to outweigh the loss of my usual workflow. Thanks for the answer and the suggestion though.
there is another issue where there some ghosting of app icons in the app library.
Have they by chance also fixed the text overlapping the status bar when in Safari Reader mode?
I love how people continue to defend the new windowing mode as some great discovery.
We had our share of exchanges and I know you don't care for Stage Manager, but it's kind of ironic stating that this new windowing mode has limitations and restrictions when iPadOS 18 is limited and restricted. We were restricted while limited to only TWO windows and another (SlideOver) window was layered over top... obstructed the view from the other TWO windows.
I actually don't think resizing is a requirement, my big complaints are mostly around the manipulation of windows - specifically how they can't seem figure out how to support drag and drop.
