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iPad as a laptop replacement

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richpjr said:
Kind of funny to see menus, real windowing and even usable cursors coming to iPadOS when we were told over and over how they weren't needed in a touch based OS and would ruin it.
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And how something, in principle, more rudimentary such as Stage Manager, wasn’t able to run on an A12X (at the beginning). Or was it a less powerful device (that now supports all this new features and interface)?
 
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sunapple said:
We’re on a 15 year long journey of Apple recreating Microsoft Surface. But in a way you can only explain by the company not willing to admit they were wrong.
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Except Surface has never sold particularly well, nor has it led to a viable tablet market for Windows. Two-in-ones are primarily laptops that happen to have detachable screens. Asus and a few others have some interesting dual-screen notebooks, but again they are laptops first.

If we go back to the testimony during the antitrust lawsuits, Apple executives wanted iOS/iPadOS to be new platforms running apps exclusively from the App Store. iPad was always going to get more Mac-like features as the hardware improved, but it would never run macOS.
 
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Populus said:
And how something, in principle, more rudimentary such as Stage Manager, wasn’t able to run on an A12X (at the beginning). Or was it a less powerful device (that now supports all this new features and interface)?
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I think it’s more the dual display support. Stage Manager is still there.
 
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sunapple said:
We’re on a 15 year long journey of Apple recreating Microsoft Surface. But in a way you can only explain by the company not willing to admit they were wrong.
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But I have a Surface and it’s a bad tablet. I don’t think we want Apple to recreate it. Surface is a good laptop with pen input if one needs that. So maybe Apple could make that as a separate Mac product line—but iPad becoming a Surface will ruin the main purpose and advantage of the iPad.
 
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subjonas said:
But I have a Surface and it’s a bad tablet. I don’t think we want Apple to recreate it. Surface is a good laptop with pen input if one needs that. So maybe Apple could make that as a separate Mac product line—but iPad becoming a Surface will ruin the main purpose and advantage of the iPad.
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Agree - I have a Surface Pro 7 and it is definitely the last 2-in-1 I'll buy. And Apple is not recreating it.
 
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Here we go...Enjoy the show. Just the iPad OS part.
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Ludatyk said:
I'm curious on what's the status of Stage Manager? Is it removed... replaced with this new windowing system?
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hovscorpion12 said:
I'm pretty sure, its outright removed. We'll know for sure once someone who installs the beta confirms
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Time stamp 5:03 - "It also works great with Stage Manager, and on external displays."

 
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JD2015 said:
Quick go and opened up 22 safari windows and a few other apps. Didn’t look to see what the RAM management was like as closed them all.
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I'd imagine the 16GB model would fare better than the 8 GB model.

[could be a hint that the M5 iPad Pro starts at 16GB and goes to 24 GB]
 
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