But enabling/disabling Stage Manager is a two step process (swipe down on Control Center and tapping the icon).
Tbh, that’s entirely up to Apple. If I’m not mistaken, they control who has access to the Smart Connector… I‘m sure manufactures would want to create what you mention.
Perhaps! There’s no articles discussing it… but I’d imagine it’s expensive.
I would say in the last 10 years they have fallen from good at this to just barely acceptable… Stage manager is still bad at windowing because of the stupid way they stack windows from the same app in the multitasking app switcher but only show you the top three. Window stacking was bad when they tried it on macOS and it hasn’t gotten any better when tried in iPadOS.
True. I would add to that the superior browser engines available on macOS.
Yes, adding macOS capabilities to iPadOS is a more creative and challenging solution to iPad’s limitations than the lazy-minded “just slap macOS on the thing already“ fix demanded by certain geeks. (They should try using Sidecar to discover just how kludgy and inelegant this looks and feels.)
I find Stage Manager gimmicky and not useful and therefore keep it turned off. IMHO they made too big a deal out of this feature when it debuted.
I think the birth of Stage Manager came out of external display support... so, the two goes hand and hand. Without Stage Manager, iPad users wouldn't have received external display support.
I actually wish we had gotten split-view and slide-over external display support alongside stage manager external display support.
Umm... I don't think pre-existing multitasking is a good idea on a much larger display, it would be too limited versus the ability to resize and move windows around freely under Stage Manager. Heck, that was one the biggest criticism of Stage Manager when it was introduced... the lack of window/app movement.
“And the power of the M4 will be coming to other products for you macOS folks, later this year! Probably. If we don’t forget. ‘Hey Siri, remind me to have them put the M4 in a Mac.’ ”
Perhaps, but I think most of the same people don’t realize that the iPad’s file management capabilities have been getting better and better over the years. It may be more that they want to have the Finder on iPads so they don’t have to spend time learning how to make Files work for them than Files not being powerful enough for them. Or maybe they’re THOSE people, the people who keep every single file ever on their desktops.
Steve Jobs was never bothered with cannibalization. If, instead of buying a Mac, a customer is buying something else that has an Apple logo on it, that’s the intent. Especially if the device they’re getting is tied into services those users are likely to make use of. By the end of the year, Apple will have made up the profit margin difference on a MacBook from the user getting music, videos, subscriptions, games, etc. And, continue to make money in the coming years.
You’re probably right, and that’s how it came about, but still my criticism stands. If it works for you, that’s great 👍
When I actually bother to use stage manager it is with two apps side by side each set to 2/3 width mode and I just tap between them. Being able to see both at full width each on half of a 27” 5K screen would be an excellent experience.
But it's the freedom to do it. That's the point I'm trying to make... especially on a larger display (users demand that freedom).
And instantly the level of incentive to make a dedicated iPad app drops away as they can now just punt people towards the Mac version.
I understand you are not pleased with the whole idea of Stage Manager. But I just said… I’m still able to have side-by-side apps when using Stage Manager, I don’t understand the problem.
