The best solution would be making iPad Pro style Mac and then remove iPad Pro.
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LTT does this a lot for Apple stuff it's hilarious. That double dip income must be nice!
The question then is WHY did you buy the 2021?
Did Apple promise anything would run so differently because of the M1 chip immediately? That app developers knew without warning to suddenly code their apps differently to improve so dramatically to justify a purchase?
Or did you purchase on YOUR own assumption that things would be so different?
As it's been said before, one really shouldn't buy new tech based on the promise of what it MAY do tomorrow. Instead you buy tech on what it ACTUALLY does today. If you do buy it based on YOUR assumptions & self created promises, then it IS silly to complain about a product NOT doing what it did NOT promise it would do. Which is the silly part. Your returning the 2021 is of course NOT silly if you don't need it. Complaining about a product NOT meeting the expectations one creates though, as opposed to the ones actually claimed for the product is.
No, you don't understand iOS/iPadOS.
These OSes have completely different app model from MacOS. For example, the user doesn't quit iPadOS apps; the apps can be killed at any time by the system and they have to be designed to be resilient of that. The limitations on RAM use allows the system to keep as many apps in memory as possible to maintain better user experience. Likewise, iPadOS has severe limits on background processes, for the same reason and also to maintain battery life on portable devices. These limits are necessary to support iPad's unique operating environment (battery operated low power device, and yes, the iPad is still one such device), always on behavior, seamless app startup/closure.
I would rather landscape FaceID on the iPad and TouchID on the iPhone.
You can’t compare mobile devices like smartphones and tablets to desktop computers. Desktop computers will always have more hardware spects.
In the year 2010 most laptops had a hard drive and 2GB , 3GB to 4 GB of RAM and swap file. Windows and Linux run things in processes the OS will not kill or refresh app but slow down or do major system freezes.
The first iPad had 256MB of RAM and no HDD but SSD of 16GB so no space for swap file. Well Windows was known to run very slow when RAM starts to get used up and also system freezes in case of memory leak.
Apple had major hardware limitation and did not want to give bad experience to users like freezes and running slow. So the solution is to kill background apps and refresh apps when it is getting close to running out of RAM. The experience of getting iPad and turning it on and it is running okay than getting very slow than very slow than very very slow? And you say may be I should close some apps or I have too many tabs running? This is the experience Apple did not what to give to people.
And keep in mind out side of tech people, pro users and computer nerds your average person would not know what is going on and why it is slow and ever think to check task-manager for computer problems. So Apple came up with a solution so your kids, Mom, Dad, and Grandma and Grandpa can play chest, scrabble, checkers, card games, check the email, check the news websites, surf the internet, read ebooks, check their appointments, check their to do list of things to buy in the store and to do around the house so on, check the weather and check the news feeds, check the stock and finances, listen to music, watch videos, note taking app so on. This was targeted for your kids, Mom, Dad, and Grandma and Grandpa with major hardware limitation of the time. And Apple had no choice to close apps running in the background and refresh tabs when the RAM is starting to get full.
Well now that the iPads are starting to get more RAM now and more SSD space this limitation has to go on the pro iPads but still be in place for the non pro iPads and older iPads.
I think a lot of people here don’t seem to get what an entitlement is.
This is a step forward, but just gives more control over to Apple. If Apple doesn’t think your app should exist on iPadOS then this makes no difference. Likewise, they can always decline the entitlement request for apps they do not like the sound of.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this entitlement exists purely for Apples own apps going forward with a few ‘behind closed doors’ deals between big app developers.
I’m sure there will be people thinking ‘so what that’s good if not every developer/app can use up all the ram’. But it’s exactly my problem with iPadOS.
Too much hand holding, if an app uses too much ram it’s a bad app full stop. iPadOS needs more freedom not additional ‘limited ability to use hardware if signed off by Apple’.
This is a step forward, but just gives more control over to Apple. If Apple doesn’t think your app should exist on iPadOS then this makes no difference. Likewise, they can always decline the entitlement request for apps they do not like the sound of.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this entitlement exists purely for Apples own apps going forward with a few ‘behind closed doors’ deals between big app developers.
I’m sure there will be people thinking ‘so what that’s good if not every developer/app can use up all the ram’. But it’s exactly my problem with iPadOS.
Too much hand holding, if an app uses too much ram it’s a bad app full stop. iPadOS needs more freedom not additional ‘limited ability to use hardware if signed off by Apple’.
Too bad. A lot of apps don't need to use more than 5GB (honestly I question if many need anywhere close but whatever). Also Apple has all the control, entitlement or not. Having an entitlement doesn't suddenly give them more control - the system already refused apps using more than 5GB due to Apple's control.
Well Apple and Microsoft do make software from time to time it is false to think the company will make all the software you need. Such a company may not have the time yet to make such software or have no interest but allow the capitalism free market to make it.
It like getting mad at Microsoft and Apple for not making photoshop clone.
I just hope programmers don't get sloppy and the apps get more bloated.
Like all the apps now on desktop computers now that are very bloated where Google earth takes 4GB of RAM to run and Firefox running with 12 tabs take up 4GB of RAM.
No doubt people will. And the resulting collective moans will no doubt spawn tsunami alerts worldwide.
There are surprisingly many complainers that do not understand the difference between and app and an operating system.
Apple nearly never talks about RAM but Apple surely fooled lots of so called “pro” into buying an 2021 iPP as they saw an Mac chip in an iPad an 16Gb RAM. Be a real pro and do your homework regarding needs and cost benefits and never trust extrapolations outside the last point. The last point is iPadOS14.
A “techie“ is not the same as a “Pro”.
Apple nearly never talks about RAM but Apple surely fooled lots of so called “pro” into buying an 2021 iPP as they saw an Mac chip in an iPad an 16Gb RAM. Be a real pro and do your homework regarding needs and cost benefits and never trust extrapolations outside the last point. The last point is iPadOS14.
A “techie“ is not the same as a “Pro”.
I had both the iPad Air 4 and now the Pro 2021, Touch ID for me is more reliable and fits my needs better, now of they moved the camera it might be different, but as is, my camera is almost always covered by fingers.
I guess it depends what they are doing with their iPad. IF they just bought it and their apps do not have
enough ram right now, how happy are they going to be waiting until this fall when this Apple rectifies
this issue? Apple has their money now! Sorry I love Apple but do not like vaporware.
There is no vaporware. Apple promised nothing with respect to the iPad Pro. People will either buy it in its merits as it is today or won’t. (I bought the iPad Pro)
Additionally I hope that people don’t feel disenfranchised when apple announces the m2, which if their development cycle is anything like the a series…should be about a year after it debuted.
And yet apple sells more units of ipads than macs, so the world seems to disagree.
Impossible to draw your conclusion until Apple makes a tablet Mac in addition to the iPad Pro.
You want to compare real things to imaginary things? Now that is truly something impossible to draw a conclusion from.
That’s not what impossible means.
Like it or not, there is a massive audience of people who don’t want to deal with managing overlapping windows, clicking menus, managing flie locations, and dealing with spinning beach balls.
You can try it yourself. I used that app and experienced this myself. I’m not surprised though. Not necessarily Bitcoin mining but for sure running distributed computing on unrelated things for the company.
Until Apple makes a Mac Tablet it is impossible to say whether iPads sell more than Macs just because of iOS, because it's a touchscreen tablet, or simply because they are a lot less expensive.