Ever Trend Zone The iPads 26 undoubtedly brings the biggest updates to the iPad I’ve ever seen, turning it into something much more Mac-like in both the UI and the features.
But since the iPad has been using the same chip as the Mac since 2021, why did it take so long? That’s the question Apple’s software head Craig Federighi will set up to answer in a new interview…
The iPados 26 is so groundbreaking that Apple claimed that it has finally transformed its device into something worthy of the term “computer.”
The biggest change Much more It’s the right window. The iPad started out as a single-task device. One fullscreen app at a time. Slideover and splitview then allowed us to use multiple apps at once, but that was rather clunky and unintuitive. Stage Manager has made usability even better, but for me, the window flexibility alternative I get on a Mac was still not enough. But now the iPad works much the same as the Mac in this respect. You can open multiple apps and place, size and overlay each window as you like (and) at the end, the iPad gets a menobar!
However, considering the iPad got its M1 chipway in 2021, the hardware means that it was absolutely capable of doing more than this. Why did it take so long to use it for software? Arstechnica I asked Federighi to explain.
He suggests that one element was that it was the element that it had to actually react. Faster From Mac.
“We have to start with grounding, where the iPad is a direct-operated touch-first device,” Federighi told ARS. “A basic requirement is that the entire interaction model is broken when you start moving anything that touches the screen and responds. It’s a mental break from contracting with the device.”
Federighi said Mac users were more tolerant of small delays on devices because they were indirectly operating the app on the screen.
Plus, using the iPad via the keyboard and trackpad was a niche until recently.
“As time passed, the iPad has become more powerful, the screen has grown larger, and the userbase has shifted to a mode in which trackpads and keyboard use is a little more with the number of people using the device,” Federighi told ARS. “And you could do a lot of things you traditionally do on a Mac for the first time on an iPad, and yet there were kind of a line of stars in places where they met the basic iPad contract.”
Why does my old iPad become full windowed when I don’t get a stage manager? It’s simpler, he says: the iPados 26 is built from the ground up.
We have rebuilt the window system and rebuilt the way we manage background tasks, background processing. This allowed us to squeeze out from other devices when Stage Manager was installed.
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