In a new interview with TechCrunch, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, detailed the future of Stage Manager, the decision to limit itself to the iPad M1 and more.
Craig Federighi in Stage Manager:
Regarding the Stage Manager review that is only supported on the M1 iPad Air and iPad Pro, Federighi explained that one of the biggest challenges was to ensure that the feature met Apple’s expectations for an “interactive response”. Essentially, this is Apple’s expectation that “every app you touch should be able to respond virtually instantly.” According to Federighi, the iPad M1 was the only model that could meet these expectations thanks to the increased amount of RAM, faster storage and support for virtual memory switching. He explained: “It’s only the M1 iPads that combined high-capacity DRAM with very high-capacity, high-performance NAND that allows our virtual memory switching to be extremely fast,” says Federighi. “Now that we allow you to have up to four applications in a table plus four more – up to eight applications for instant response and ample memory, we simply do not have this capability on other systems.” Federighi also noted that only the iPad M1 can support the full range of external display capabilities due to the Thunderbolt port. The performance of the graphics also played a role in that decision, he added. “When you combine all this, we can not offer the full Stage Manager experience on any smaller system,” says Federighi. “I mean, we want to make it available wherever we can. But this requires. This is the experience we are going to transfer in the future. We did not want to limit our plan to something smaller, we set the benchmark for the future. “ Looking to the future of Stage Manager, Federighi said that Apple is closely monitoring the feedback and response to the feature included in the iPadOS 16 beta 1. As one would expect, Federighi promised that Apple would continue to work on the feature. and make improvements in the summer. Federighi noted that Apple already has a number of new features and planned changes: “We already had a number of them planned, as they relate to the stage manager on both the Mac and the iPad,” says Federighi. “And some of the comments we received are things we say ‘yes, I mean it comes in the second or third seed!’ We have already identified these things, whether they are errors or just incomplete data or behavioral modifications. “We have not seen anything that makes us think, oh, this is unexpected news. Many of them are either the reaction we expect from people who have not adapted to the system or in areas where we have in-flight improvements. So yes, we will definitely continue to do that. “ The full TechCrunch interview is worth reading and includes some additional information about the Stage Manager development process, because Apple brought it to iPad and Mac at the same time and more. FTC: We use affiliate links that automatically generate revenue. More. Take a look at 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news:
