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Craig Federighi on iPad's New Multitasking
Andrew Cunningham, on arstechnica.com:
That slight change in approach, combined with other behind-the-scenes optimizations, makes the new multitasking model more widely compatible than Stage Manager is. There are still limits on those devices–not to the number of windows you can open, but to how many of those windows can be active and up-to-date at once. And true multi-monitor support would remain the purview of the faster, more-expensive models.
It was very surprising — and satisfying — to see so many iPads’s supported by the new model. This segmentation for the feature sounds more reasonable than the previous Stage Manager one.
“But we’ve looked and said, as [the iPad and Mac] come together, where on the iPad the Mac idiom for doing something, like where we put the window close controls and maximize controls, what color are they–we’ve said why not, where it makes sense, use a converged design for those things so it’s familiar and comfortable,” Federighi told Ars. “But where it doesn’t make sense, iPad’s gonna be iPad.”
John Siracusa, said it best on mastodon:
Turns out the Mac had some pretty good ideas when it comes to multitasking.
It’s a bit sad that after so many years of resistance, they arrived at such an “obvious solution”. I’d rather believe the argument that they needed to wait so the whole iPad lineup was powerful enough to support these sort of features. But I’m not sure I buy this myself.