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The iPad Just Got a Lot More Like a Mac Thanks to These 20+ New Features
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Unless I'm mistaken, you were able to do this for the past two years.
Update: I just checked. You were able to do that since iPadOS 13, but it was much more limited. The update that had Stage Manager seemed to have fleshed it out quite a bit more.
its amazing u have this device with M-series chips and is still useless for programming.
I’m a little confused here. Is the new multitasking what Stage Manager now is, and therefore only compatible with Stage Manager approved devices? Or is Stage Manager still what it was and this is now compatible with all devices (which seems odd)?
I’m using it and I am already in heaven! Finally! Big step forward. Not MacOS but I don’t care… I have Jump Desktop to access my Macs when I need to, which now is less and less needed.
That doesn’t imply that all features will work on all of these iPad models. Though Federighi apparently said that the windowing functions will work on all of them.
To copy what? Redmond already has a full desktop OS on tablets for decades.
omg, background tasks on a device, who could imagine that? folders? a pointing cursor? well, maybe buy a device that already offers that.
for me the iPad is a shrunk down version of a Mac, in every way.
From what I’ve noticed over the years, every iPadOS update seems to bring it closer to what I had nearly a decade ago with my Surface Pro 4. In this case, it looks like Apple is the one copying Microsoft.
They removed slide over, which is quite annoying. I loved using slide over for messages and music as I was working on something. Hopefully they bring it back.
All your previous comments were about dual boot MacOS; there is no dual boot so you weren't proven correct.
Imagine the sheer amount of engineering resources and effort being put into this just so they don't have to release MacOS on the iPad - which has the same processor, same amount of RAM, same amount of SSD size initially
*WHY*, what can be the excuse minus Apple wants a platform it can restrict the apps on
If this UI is simplified and thats the point, then put it on the Mac as well, and let users decide which Mac experience they want - and on what platform, Mac or "iPad", they want
*WHY*, what can be the excuse minus Apple wants a platform it can restrict the apps on
If this UI is simplified and thats the point, then put it on the Mac as well, and let users decide which Mac experience they want - and on what platform, Mac or "iPad", they want
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I agree that it is moving closer MacOS. However, they are not going to let that truly happen because it will eat into their MacBook sales.
I’m interested in user reports about iPad Mini, particularly whether there is extended display support on iPad Mini (A17 Pro).
If there is, it gives me reason to upgrade.
If there is, it gives me reason to upgrade.
It looks like at least the windowing feature will come to all the supported models, regardless of size.
"M series power in a tablet" is just a gimmicky way to use more chips in the same devices, charge more for "Pro" iPads and prevent a situation where annually-updated phones have a newer A-series chip than tablets which aren't updated annually.
I thought, this year, they would give M-series tablets the option to boot MacOS but this update is Apple screaming "we're not doing that!"
I thought, this year, they would give M-series tablets the option to boot MacOS but this update is Apple screaming "we're not doing that!"
So when we can use vscode and homebrew on iPad?
Sideloading.
App persistence, instead of the saved state being dumped from RAM.
These two features PLEASE
App persistence, instead of the saved state being dumped from RAM.
These two features PLEASE
So after 3 years, the stage manager failed miserably？
Seems like all these devices should be running the same OS. They can adapt the interface a little for each but then if you dock a device to a monitor/keyboard/mouse you can full MacOS interface.