If they copied Samsung DeX properly, Split View will be there. On Samsung tablets, DeX (full multiwindow) is a mode. But there is a classic tablet mode too which offers simple screen splitting.
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The iPad Just Got a Lot More Like a Mac Thanks to These 20+ New Features
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omg! if preview will let me edit pdf files and make pdf files on a ipad im selling my macbook pro. pretty much only feature thats holding me back from going all in on ipad as my main computer
I agree and a large chunk of time I think people won’t use most of them, so I sssuke the traditional usage won’t be interfered with. But this does create a much more compelling solution for those who want something more “convertible”.
iPadOS looks way better, more coherent, and more modern than macOS, in my opinion.
Fantastic changes for the iPad. Happy with all the changes. Wonder whether device with more RAM will benefit from window tiling.
While every step that makes the iPadPro a bit more usable as more than a consumption device is welcome, the closer iPadOS comes to MacOS, the more it becomes obvious what is lacking. There is no font management, 3rd party apps like Adobe CC are not running, Logic does not support AUs, all the many many little helpers in the background that make MacOS so good are lacking. Workflows that are simple and fast on Mac are abhorrently complicated on iPad. I don't care how good or bad the iPad-Finder is (still bad), I want Forklift. I don't care how good Logic is (still crippled), I want my Native-Instrument-Plugs. And so on.
The big plus, the fantastic plus, is touch and the pencil. It would be amazing to work with these tools and the possibilities they open in creation work in a real full-scale MacOS system. I can live with the iPad never being a full-blown Mac, the Mac is just fine as it is. But it needs touch in addition to mouse and keyboard. The factions arguing that A will never be B and B can never be A – it just does feel less and less true, because A and B are tauntingly close together these days and the differences seem arbitrary..
The big plus, the fantastic plus, is touch and the pencil. It would be amazing to work with these tools and the possibilities they open in creation work in a real full-scale MacOS system. I can live with the iPad never being a full-blown Mac, the Mac is just fine as it is. But it needs touch in addition to mouse and keyboard. The factions arguing that A will never be B and B can never be A – it just does feel less and less true, because A and B are tauntingly close together these days and the differences seem arbitrary..
Finally! Looking forward to it. Once we get the folding phone this could be an awesome all rounder
I used to feel that way. I used the Microsoft alternatives with touch, a Surface Pro and a Surface Laptop for a while. Funny enough, despite how convenient I thought the pen would be, I rarely ended up using it. My instincts were always just to go for the mouse or the touchpad. If I was a digital artist, I might feel differently. The effort to grab, pick up and actually use the pen (!), not to mention putting it down when I went back to using the keyboard always seemed unproductive.
BTW, I'm also a Logic Pro user (composer/producer), but the lack of third-party AU support on the iPad version has permanently turned me off using Logic Pro for iPadOS as a serious music-making tool.
So the iPad mini never got stage manager because apparently it needed M1 when it came out, and now all of a sudden its available on even even the iPad mini 5 ?
lack of third-party AU support on the iPad version has permanently turned me off using Logic Pro for iPadOS as a serious music-making tool.
Same here. Very much about Logic on the iPad is great (it sure is there best DAW on that platform so far), but since almost no one supports AUv3, it feels crippled. Same with FinalCut, no way to extend it like the MacOS version. Same with «Photoshop», no plugs. And so on. No Indesign/Illustrator. No font library. It is not so much the OS itself, it is what hundreds of companies and people added to the infrastructure over decades. The little tools in your menu bar, the plugs and extensions in your software, the scripts and shortcuts. The very gated iPad OS basically feels like MacOS without all of these background mini applications and architectural add-ons to the bare-bones structure. The iPad will only ever be equal to the Mac with that kind of developer freedom and support, in the walled garden nothing seems to grow as it does outside in the sun on MacOS. Of most of the apps I use daily, the is no equivalent on iPad/iOS. And if it exists, it is a joke.
As long as Apple lets it stay that way, iPad will never be a serious production platform.
But it's great for reading
Same here. Very much about Logic on the iPad is great (it sure is there best DAW on that platform so far), but since almost no one supports AUv3, it feels crippled. Same with FinalCut, no way to extend it like the MacOS version. Same with «Photoshop», no plugs. And so on. No Indesign/Illustrator. No font library. It is not so much the OS itself, it is what hundreds of companies and people added to the infrastructure over decades. The little tools in your menu bar, the plugs and extensions in your software, the scripts and shortcuts. The very gated iPad OS basically feels like MacOS without all of these background mini applications and architectural add-ons to the bare-bones structure. The iPad will only ever be equal to the Mac with that kind of developer freedom and support, in the walled garden nothing seems to grow as it does outside in the sun on MacOS. Of most of the apps I use daily, the is no equivalent on iPad/iOS. And if it exists, it is a joke.
As long as Apple lets it stay that way, iPad will never be a serious production platform.
But it's great for reading
It isn’t getting stage manager. Only the new windowing.
This argument is still strange to me. You do realise Apple sells portable macs right?
conceptual difference leads to operational differences and thats what limits iPadOS
It depends on what Apple decides to do with foldable devices. I doubt any iPad will run macOS apps or that all Macs will get touch support. But maybe a large foldable hybrid will get a special version of macOS or iPadOS.
Cool. This may well make my iPad Pro, that mostly collects dust, used a lot more. Might even buy a keyboard/trackpad cover for it.
Defo the most exciting thing from WWDC.
Defo the most exciting thing from WWDC.
Apple can just virtualise all of those parts of the system features into a virtual machine of sort or an isolated container and charge a fee to those people wanting to use them. Or maybe not a fee. Idk. Besides, iPadOS was perfectly capable of running full blown VM if Apple didn’t decide to gimp it “to keep the system secure”.
And after a short while got bored with it and never use iPad again.
Apple is the master at disappointing people.
great
all they need to do now is stop making the Mac more like the iPad.
all they need to do now is stop making the Mac more like the iPad.
They're too late too little. We asked for a functional Finder with proper file management workflow. Hopefully having Preview now work with Finder could make some meaningful productivity boosts.
The 11” macbook air and the 12” macbook werent all that long ago…
Dont get me wrong, I like and use the SD slot on my MBP, but the iPad doesn't need one to transfer large files as the person I responded to said. Just use the USBC slot.