Harry McCrackenStrong words from my colleague Jesus. I do think that the iPad’s ability to let you be productive without losing time to wrangling windows is incredibly important. https://www.fastcompany.com/91349280/apple-just-turned-the-ipad-into-a-mac
Chris Hamilton@harrymccracken seems a bit overwrought considering that windowing is merely an option
@chris @harrymccracken The only options are windowing (in two forms—the new interface or Stage Manager) and full-screen apps. Split View and SlideOver, which added up to an approach to multitasking that didn’t ape the Mac at all, are going away.
@harrymccracken There are three forms— you excluded Stage Manager. And Split View can still be used through the windowing interface.
The only part that is going away is Slide Over. It failed because it wasn’t powerful enough for power users and it was too often accidentally enabled by basic users.
@chris @harrymccracken It’s possible to get to two windows sharing the screen a la Split View, but how you get there seems radically different and less efficient, I acknowledge that not everything wants to use an iPad the way I do.
Luke Kanies@harrymccracken @chris I’m hoping they bring slide over back. It’s fundamentally different, and it seems like a lot of people use it.
It’s hard to imagine they’ll do the same Split View, because the tiling is so similar in purpose (even though, as you say, it gets there quite differently). Hopefully they will eventually import some of the simplicity?