[HN Gopher] Apple's Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad...
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       Apple's Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad's Mac-like
       multitasking
        
       Author : miles
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-06-12 17:01 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | infotainment wrote:
       | Having played with it on my M1 iPad, seems like they really
       | nailed the interaction with this release. It feels like it always
       | should have worked this way, unlike Stage Manager, which was just
       | kind of weird.
       | 
       | The sad part is, of course, that Apple still hasn't addressed
       | the-useless-for-real-productivity part of the iPad. The fact that
       | you can't even open the web inspector in Safari strikes me as
       | patently absurd. (Only remote inspection is possible, achieved by
       | connecting your iPad to your Mac with a USB cable. Really,
       | Apple?)
        
         | dfex wrote:
         | I really wanted to like Stage Manager. I feel like there was
         | something there in terms of window management that hadn't
         | really been done before, but there was just something about it
         | that wasn't quite right - the gestures never seemed intuitive
         | or something, and I'd end up having windows shuffling all over
         | the place whenever I was switching task.
         | 
         | I look forward to seeing the changes ipadOS 26 (with the
         | possible exception of liquid glass)
        
         | paxys wrote:
         | Making the iPad a serious productivity machine would mean
         | giving up their App Store control and the 30% cut. There's no
         | way the business side of the company will let that happen.
        
         | 1317 wrote:
         | I think most people would find that a funny definition of "real
         | productivity"
        
       | pornel wrote:
       | I don't get it why is performance such a massive issue that they
       | still need to have an artificially low limit on the number of
       | windows.
       | 
       | M-series iPads are more powerful than most of Apple's Mac Pros
       | were. They have 8GB of RAM, but until recently so did Apple's
       | best-selling MacBook models.
        
       | medhir wrote:
       | Or they could... you know finally put macOS on the iPad
        
         | iwontberude wrote:
         | The problem is when they tried to make iPad apps available on
         | macOS by default, developers revolted and made it an opt-in.
         | Now Apple has to weigh losing a large amount of their app
         | catalog _and_ cannibalize MacBook sales. It 's hardly an
         | obvious win for anyone. Allowing dual boot with the caveat that
         | macOS will inexplicably be missing the iPad apps the user was
         | previously using won't really jive well either.
        
         | geoffpado wrote:
         | If you want a device that runs macOS, Apple makes plenty of
         | them, at all kinds of price points.
        
           | paxys wrote:
           | Which one of them has a touch screen?
        
       | tiahura wrote:
       | How about just letting us run OSX? I don't even care if you limit
       | it to pro models to protect your margins.
        
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