So, I've been looking at returning (after several years away) to an iPad. Still content with my Mac Air, but as a instant content delivery device and for the occasional 'work' job, I thought I'd look again. Of course, Apple would still have us believe the product is a decent alternative to a 'real' computer - and that I almost instantly proved is not the case at my local Apple Store.
Heard much of the new iPadOS and split-screening (catching up to some Android products in that regard, it seems), and while there are some nice features, split-screening is clearly not one of them. Apple Store clerk had a real struggle to get the iPad to do it - but it was then my (I thought not unreasonable) query that really caused problems - and resulted in a senior store clerk coming over.
"So, let's say I have a Pages or Word document open and I want to open another on split-screen to work between the two", I suggested. Not an usual circumstance, I thought.
Clearly it is to the boffins at Apple.
"Oh, what? You've got to be kidding me!", said senior Apple clerk after several tries. "Well, that's certainly a problem."
Discovered I could have a document open in, say, Pages and another open in, say, Word and work between the two (just how complicated is that?), but it seems iPadOS won't allow two files in the same program to open.
So really, the iPad remains what it has always been - an oversexed iPhone geared to content delivery from the App / iTunes Stores. Games, music, video, news aggregators, the occasional useful 3rd Party app - if only running one instance at a time.
Pity.
Heard much of the new iPadOS and split-screening (catching up to some Android products in that regard, it seems), and while there are some nice features, split-screening is clearly not one of them. Apple Store clerk had a real struggle to get the iPad to do it - but it was then my (I thought not unreasonable) query that really caused problems - and resulted in a senior store clerk coming over.
"So, let's say I have a Pages or Word document open and I want to open another on split-screen to work between the two", I suggested. Not an usual circumstance, I thought.
Clearly it is to the boffins at Apple.
"Oh, what? You've got to be kidding me!", said senior Apple clerk after several tries. "Well, that's certainly a problem."
Discovered I could have a document open in, say, Pages and another open in, say, Word and work between the two (just how complicated is that?), but it seems iPadOS won't allow two files in the same program to open.
So really, the iPad remains what it has always been - an oversexed iPhone geared to content delivery from the App / iTunes Stores. Games, music, video, news aggregators, the occasional useful 3rd Party app - if only running one instance at a time.
Pity.
