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tht said:

Prometheu said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

davgreg said:

iPad Pro?
They are due for an upgrade.

I have a MacBook Pro 14” that mostly stays home as a desktop and my iPad Pro goes everywhere. Ready to see the iPad Pro’s next act.

Not without significant improvements to iPad OS. They are already overpowered for running iPad OS in the last 2 generations (A12X/Z, M1 generations), Apple has to focus on improvements to iPad OS before launching the M2 version of iPad Pros.

Not really sure what those improvements could entail though. The iPad is not becoming a Mac, and it's a long, long way away from being one. Apple seems very happy with where iPadOS is today, mostly because they know how iPad gets used. Despite all their marketing and things they've added to iPad over time, it is still largely used for watching videos. While the Mac is still used for real work.

I actually think we're starting to see the potential of iPad max out. I don't share some people's idealistic notions that it could be something that it is not.

Apple has designed the iPad to have features in-between that of an iPhone and a Macbook. It's an artificial segmentation and Apple can implement many more features and enable people to use iPads in more ways. Here's a list of things they could do:

1. Turn background multitasking timers off or set them for much longer. An app is downloading some file but if it takes to long it will be killed if it is in the background. Let it run in the background until completion. This or that app is doing something that can take awhile, don't kill it while it is in the background.
2. Turn on the page file so that apps can allocate larger amounts of memory. Instead of killing apps when memory is running low, these apps memory footprint would go into the page file. When you come back to it, it won't need to restart, and the state of the app will be where you last left it. A lot of the app freezing methods they have right now aren't implemented that well by all developers, so you are left with situations where an app is killed in background and it has to restart/reopen.
3. Enable extended display support. Currently with an external monitor, either the iPad display is mirrored on the external display or it's left to an app to use the external display. By extending the display to say 1 monitor, people can have 4 apps simultaneously displayed plus SlideOver.
4. Enable Split View for all apps. Not all iPad apps support Split View or Slide Over today because the developer doesn't want to. If they can get these apps to support Split View and Slide Over at the system level, I think it would goes a long ways in addressing multitasking complaints, even with iPadOS's windowing system.
5. Terminal.app. Let users access the unix subsystem and let them install arbitrary unix (macOS) packages.
6. There's a lot of security stuff limiting audio and video. Like, having a video conferencing app run in the background with video/audio on, while you can work on whatever video/audio stuff that you have.

Just lots of stuff. The only reason an iPad can't do everything a Mac can is because it is designed to be that way. It doesn't have to be that way. 

muthuk_vanalingam said:

davgreg said:

iPad Pro?
They are due for an upgrade.

I have a MacBook Pro 14” that mostly stays home as a desktop and my iPad Pro goes everywhere. Ready to see the iPad Pro’s next act.

Not without significant improvements to iPad OS. They are already overpowered for running iPad OS in the last 2 generations (A12X/Z, M1 generations), Apple has to focus on improvements to iPad OS before launching the M2 version of iPad Pros.

9secondkox2 said:

edr said:

Top of my wishlist - built-in power supply. I don't like what they did with the current iMac - "We Don't Need Another Brick in the ... Floor"!

Right on. The floor litter power brick needs to go ASAP. Very un-Apple. More like original Xbox. Nasty. 

Put the power supply inside where it belongs. 

Especially with the enclosure space of a 27”. 

If they can put everything including battery behind an iPad screen, they can do this. 

tht said:

Seems Apple increases RAM primarily for camera functionality. So, you can harbor a guess that the 2022 iPhone Pro has a 48MP camera and A15 SoC media blocks, including more performant ISP, neural engine and other SIMD engines, to deal with 4x the pixels.

Non-camera users get a free ride for their apps.