Apple will bring Stage Manager to more iPads after all with iPadOS 16.1
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- 29 Sep 2022
dbjungle, 28 Sep 2022Yea, it's BS. They could literally run MacOS on an iP... moreThat would be so awesome. To have your iPhone connected to a display and let you choose whether to use it as a 2nd display or even run macOS on it.
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- 28 Sep 2022
Anonymous, 28 Sep 2022I watched a video on YouTube. I didn't realize that iP... moreI'm convinced Apple only brought this to older iPad Pros just to burry the older articles of it working on other devices with their pre-release internal mode.
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- 28 Sep 2022
Anonymous, 28 Sep 2022People that trying to say that macOS or windows had this fo... moreYea, it's BS. They could literally run MacOS on an iPhone at this point.
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- dbjungle
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- 28 Sep 2022
Still no mention of the less than a year old iPad Mini 6 with the A15. Apple's reasoning for this is such BS too. There are Android devices that support true multi-tasking with multiple resizable windows with less capable SoCs. Compare the Snapdragon 870 to the A15 Bionic. I ONLY bought the iPad Mini 6 because there were no small Android tablets with decent performance. The way Apple is handling Stage Manager has shown me that even that wasn't a good enough reason to buy an iOS device. Also, let's be real... Stage Manager is a very sad execution of multi-tasking to begin with. BUT... it's something. That something helps with some key issues on iOS.
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- Anonymous
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- 28 Sep 2022
People that trying to say that macOS or windows had this for years is hilarious and they are not developers for sure. Apple SoC share everything, ssd, cpu gpu and the ram...and for so many pixels you have to have a good gpu with Ram to share to have the display intentionally 120hz UI. Only M1 have 8gb and 16gb of ram...on older ipads this will be limited to 4 apps, and no external display support because well...pixels and no thunderbolt connection/bandwidth until M1
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- Anonymous
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- 28 Sep 2022
Stage manager requires the following.
1. NO snapping of windows. Allow free movement.
2. Deprecate some audio API function. So audio from one source will not override the other. (Allow all music to play, not auto stop others)
3. Show which app is opened in the dock.. like how MacOS lights up the apps that is opened.
4. Remove that stack of apps on the side (it can't even display properly in a 11 inch iPad), DO what macOS already have.. its call mission control.
Basically, SEE macOS 12? COPY directly. Not rocket science. The fact they had trouble with it, means how far it differs from macOS.
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- Mm1
- 28 Sep 2022
treidet, 28 Sep 2022I honestly don't care about StageManager thing. IMHO i... moreAgree with this, except i don't care external screen. Propably won't going to use this stage Manager either, because i like to keep my usage simple with iPad, when i want desktop experience i just use my computer with lot bigger screen. Which nowdays happens very rarely.
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- Anonymous
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- 28 Sep 2022
This is stupid how about the ipad air gen 4 that have more powerful chips?
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- treidet
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- 28 Sep 2022
I honestly don't care about StageManager thing. IMHO is completely useless. It's just a little bone Apple threw to those who wanted a "desktop like experience".
What I want is proper external monitor support for all iPads. IMHO this is much more useful than this StageManager.
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- 28 Sep 2022
Anonymous, 28 Sep 2022I watched a video on YouTube. I didn't realize that iP... more"It's a little hard for me to understand how Apple can claim this would only work on M1 chips."
They didn't, it will work with older chips too, just not the level Apple wants it to work, so they made light version of it for older models just like the article mentions, which is very nice.
"I watched a video on YouTube. I didn't realize that iPads had an interface that was so backwards and limitied, rather than something more like a standard desktop."
This is the key reason why iPad been so succesful, why people needed another computer? The whole idea of iPad was to offer simple and fast device which you want to pick up instead using your PC for simple tasks which majority do with their PC. Now Apple been slowly adding these computer features to their Pro models where users are more demanding and are meant for lot heavier usage.
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- Anonymous
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- 28 Sep 2022
I watched a video on YouTube. I didn't realize that iPads had an interface that was so backwards and limitied, rather than something more like a standard desktop. I guess Stage Manager gets you halfway to what any desktop from twenty years ago could do.
It's a little hard for me to understand how Apple can claim this would only work on M1 chips. I mean, you can run full blown Windows on the Surface tablets, even the Surface Pro X, with the pretty underpowered ARM processor that comes on it. And in Linux the level of desktop animations you could do with Compiz, more than a decade ago, still blows out of the water anything that exists on the desktop today.
So it just seems like Apple is making up excuses if they claim regular iPads, without the M1 chip, can't run a plain on standard desktop (let alone a hobbled one like Stage Manager) and that it required all kinds of special engineering to get it to work, and only sort of, on non-M1 iPads. In reality, it seems like an excuse to upsell people on more expensive iPads, which is the typical way Apple abuses its customers.
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- Anonymous
- 4j0
- 28 Sep 2022
It would be nice if this article explained what Stage Manager does, but from the images it looks like pretty much every other desktop.
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- Chemist83
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- 28 Sep 2022
Cool because a new iPad pro would be a waste for me. the 12Z 1TB Pro is enough for me. I don't use external monitors.
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- Anonymous
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- 28 Sep 2022
of course you need ram for multitasking and apple cpu have enough raw power.the problem is can it run cool because apple apps sandboxes