mattinoz

sirdir said:

The main problem isn’t really fixed: Apple deciding what program you can run on an iPad and what program you cannot

AppleZulu said:

tht said:

Hoping this iPadOS multitasking rumor means unlimited background multitasking has finally made its way to iPadOS.

Stage Manager on iPadOS basically maintained the limitation of 4 simultaneous apps, which you could do with Split View, Slide Over and PiP. The only big improvement was proper external monitor support. 

They should get rid of Stage Manager and have unlimited background multitasking. Use an Expose like UI for switching between apps and windows. Apps that were killed should not appear in the switcher. 

Oh, Terminal.app please. 

And, hopefully this thing about needing to attach a keyboard and mouse to use this UI is wrong. Everything should be doable through touch. 

There will continue to be a limit on things like multitasking.  iPads are sealed devices with no means to cool the processor.  They can be powerful devices, but there are physical limitations that define their separation from Macs. MacBook Air has passive venting, and as you move up the Mac line you’ll find bigger and bigger fans for dissipation of heat. Apple designs the OS to serve the hardware, and so there will continue to be things that Macs do and iPads don’t do, and vice-versa.

mattinoz said:

Hopefully this is time they finally let the iPad shine. Let it be the Mac replacement it could be for lots of people. 

If they recut the interaction boundaries because of overhauling the system then to me there is a sweet stop in the middle that is filled by most MacBook, most iPad users especially the pro buys and the vision users. Who need flexibility to get work done but only go under the hood because of problems not a desire to tinker.

There is then a more supportive tier that covers iPhone and a less supportive traditional Mac tier. 

As noted, there are hardware limitations that define where these lines are drawn. The perennial clamoring for iPads to be Macs and Macs to be iPads tend to ignore this and also to be myopic about the fantasyland middle ground, while ignoring the other ends of the spectrum of affected devices…

9secondkox2 said:

Time for touchscreen Macs. 

… so we have this idea keep popping up. While a touchscreen on a notebook sounds fine and dandy (ignoring for a moment the clusterf*** of using touch to control a menu-driven OS), a touchscreen interface on a desktop Mac would be an ergonomic nightmare and orders of magnitude worse on a multi-screen Mac Pro workstation.  And before we start imagining a solution involving the bloatware of alternate user interfaces within the same operating system, let’s just remember that Windows does that for the Surface, and it’s well-proven to be nothing Apple should replicate.

So as you can see, while Apple leans into refinements that bridge the boundaries between product lines, there are actual reasons for the boundaries between product lines. Thus far, Apple has maintained the wisdom not to toss aside their core design principles in order to try to accommodate Apple fan fiction fantasies, and hopefully they will maintain that wisdom well into the future.

CheeseFreeze said:

“We don’t have anything to show for in June in respect to useful AI, Tim. We now support a new cool cartoony variety in Image Playground, but that’s it.”

”What about Vision Pro?”

”We have 16 active users now. Not exactly great ROI, Tim.”

”What we could do is skin our operating systems with the Vision Pro OS look, to get some value out of the R&D. It’ll distract our user-base from the lack of innovations. Frosted glass, please.”