This is stupid. Why is there a LIMIT at all?
Is this MS-DOS anno 1982?
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Latest iOS and iPadOS 15 Betas Allow Apps to Request Access to More RAM
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Because there was never a reason to access more memory per app than the device had in total?
It was a non-issue to begin with, it was just something people decided to complain about.
A little slider in the app preferences for RAM allowance would be great. Be "automatic" by default but allow users to set it between the minimum and what the app would like for max performance.
Prophetic or simply observant, you decide!😂The next thing people will complain about is their 6 GB iPads won't get the "feature" of being able to request 8 GB of RAM because Apple is greedy.
ipad will never get macos. get over it.
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Now THAT is a good question.
I wouldn't mind hearing some technical details from Apple as to why they choose to do this.
Darth Tulhu
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The use of the term "proper" is improper here.
The iPad was never intended to do all these things. Apple is slowly transitioning the iPad into a "computer" without losing what makes it an iPad.
I think this is a harder balancing act than we can tell, because slapping macOS onto it is NOT the solution.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind if the iPad became the ONE device for everyone, but it will take a while before it gets there.
To prevent some lazy developers from unnecessarily requesting all or most of the available ram, causing a poor iPad user experience for many running multiple apps.
No, ipados 15 is still disappointing. That complicated to code for limited access to additional ram “in certain scenarios” exists doesn’t change that.
If you want macOS why not just buy a Mac laptop?
While I’ll agree with you that they need a dismount button for external media, I’ll disagree with you on the other two.
We already have full external monitor support and have had it since 2018. There are many apps that use the external monitor without side bars, typically to display read-only content like a presentation or video. Unfortunately, what you want is not possible on a touch device. You can’t touch that external monitor, so how can you use apps or icons on that second monitor? By necessity, a touch interface requires mirroring by default because Apple cannot mandate a user have a keyboard or mouse. Think about it. Why would they extend the desktop if you can’t touch it? Why would they extend the borders if they’re mirroring? As long as Apple mandates that the iPad be touch first, the desktop will never be extended. I guarantee that in iPadOS versions years from now, the desktop will still be mirrored with borders as long as the iPad’s main screen is 4:3 and YouTubers will still be complaining about it, not able to understand why Apple won’t do it. Apps must manage the second monitor for their own needs since there is no way to handle it generically, unlike on a laptop or desktop. Most developers will not support a second monitor either for the same reason Apple doesn’t on their desktop. A second monitor is touch unfriendly. Any generic solution like on a desktop would break the tens of thousands of apps that would get lost if any of them ended up on the second monitor.
On windowing, it won’t happen on a touch device either. Windows are too easily lost and become extremely difficult to retrieve on a touch interface. That’s why Apple’s multitasking refuses to allow permanent windows. They will allow child windows on top of main app windows, such as the new Notes interface and the slide over app, but the second you leave the app, those windows go away. They don’t get lost behind other windows. On a touch interface, you’d be cursing the existence of windows.
The iPad is a touch device, not a laptop or a desktop. It will never have all the features those devices do because some interfaces just don’t work on a tablet. Generically extending a desktop and windowing are not touch friendly. I’m sure Apple’s tested out those features long ago and discarded them as unworkable.
I've never understood the people who want the iPad to be a Mac. And people who think the Mac is the be all and end all of computing. And its mostly people who use a handful of power apps like video stuff, or Xcode. As if even 1% of the total iPad user base would even use that software. Its just so silly.
Until a MacBook allows me to hold it in one hand and a read a book standing on a train or put it on my kitchen counter while I'm cooking reading a recipe.. well I'd rather the iPad stay as it is thanks.
Until a MacBook allows me to hold it in one hand and a read a book standing on a train or put it on my kitchen counter while I'm cooking reading a recipe.. well I'd rather the iPad stay as it is thanks.
With Swift Playgrounds getting the ability to submit apps for distribution on the App Store, I’m guessing that’s Apple’s version of Xcode for the iPad. Why build submit functionality into Playgrounds if Xcode was on the way.
Apps should have access to RAM. No reason RAM should be limited to 5GB when 8 or 16GB is available.
I'm playing with server side events in a web-app for the first time right now. My computer fans turn on even when nothing is going on, so I suspect I've done something wrong.
My point being that 60+% CPU might be a result of the programmer not knowing what they're doing instead of them maliciously taking your compute resources.
Using so much memory makes it seem likely that you've got some major bugs in your program. The solution should be to fix those bugs, not just throw additional hardware at the problem.
I guess you don't, but there are plenty of people that do.
1. Purchase 12" iPad Pro w 16GB Ram
2. Find out no app currently can use that much Ram
3. Moan and whine and complain and criticize on Forums about the injustice of it all
4. Return iPad Pro
5. Find out iPad OS 15 will support more RAM usage
6. Buy iPad Pro again
2. Find out no app currently can use that much Ram
3. Moan and whine and complain and criticize on Forums about the injustice of it all
4. Return iPad Pro
5. Find out iPad OS 15 will support more RAM usage
6. Buy iPad Pro again
No, the "quite simple" answer is I spent $1999 (with Magic Keyboard) to have the EXACT same processor, ram, and ssd as a M1 MacBook Air - it should be MY CHOICE to dual boot MacOS and live with any shortcomings of its interface not being optimized for touch - but Apple wants to force me to buy iPad Pro AND MacBook Air because MacOS isn't touch optimized. No, they aren't protecting me from me; they are protecting their bottom line (over $94B in cash).
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I think it’s also to avoid bad actors similar to how apps don’t play nice with cpu consumption or background refreshing to no end draining all the battery and hogging the resources. With RAM this is a new avenue for an app to take all the available RAM leaving nothing to others making them crash behind scenes.
Not saying it is on purpose, sometimes is really just lack of experience or avoiding the built-in APIs, for example the Adobe suite on Mac (because of legacy code) insists on using their own rendering, file management, etc… when I save a png and hit replace an existing file it doesn’t replace it and creates a copy instead, been years like that, plus the activity monitor always showing tons of processes doing “something Creative Cloud”.
I just hope that those entitlement rights are both not abused by those that don’t even need it (like Twitter or Facebook should never get it) and those that need it (i.e. Procreate, Affinity) don’t need to jump through too many hoops.
