iPadOS 16 on a non M1 iPad is such a disappointment.

[compwiz1202]

I think I'm done with iPad, I won't buy another one, with the phone and MacBook I feel like I have all bases covered.

For some reason I've never been into tablets. If I'm out, my iPhone is good enough, and if I'm home, I use my laptop. The only time I might use a tablet would be if I'm flying a longer flight to watch movies.

 

[theotherphil]

My 10 year old Mid 2012 MacBook Pro can handle the equivalent of stage manager + extended displays... in fact Macs back to the 1990s have been able to do this, yet iPads that Apple touted as 'desktop class' etc etc somehow can't? iPads that are supposedly so much faster than my 10 year old Mac?

That’s technically incorrect - your MBP from 2012 was running a display resolution of 1280x800 and could drive a single external display at 2560x1600. That’s a total pixel count of 5,120,000.

The M1 iPP is running a native resolution of 2732x2048 (which is already pushing more pixels than the 2012 MBP can support, even with external display) and a 6k XDR display at 6016x3384….that’s a total of 25,953,280 pixels or 20,833,280 more pixels than the 2012 MBP.

Add in all the transitions and 3D effects and, well, it’s just not possible that a 2012 MBP can run stage manager at the same standard.

 

[Jimmie Geddes]

iPadOS 16 is a joke. If Apple wasn't going to bring a true iPadOS 15 successor to iPads it released in the last year or 2 and only support iPad Air 5 and latest iPad Pro with M1 with all of its latest and best features, it should have come up with better solutions. So glad I sold my 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2018. This is going to confuse the hell out of customers who purchase the new iPad mini, 9th gen iPad, etc. when they find out none of the major new features are supported.

The whole "it needs M1" is marketing speak for buy an M1 iPad to really get iPadOS 16. Apple could and should do better, especially since it still can't get its iPad story straight after all these years. iPadOS 16 only highlights the fact.