I think there's a couple of reasons for people's dislike of Stage Manager:
1. Limited availability (I didn't get external monitor support in 2022 despite buying an iPad Pro in 2020)
2. The potential it could have had. At the moment, I use the standard Split View/Split Screen style of multitasking. Stage Manager just doesn't work for me, and it looks like this is the case for many of the people who dislike Stage Manager.
You made a good point however—it's important for people to try out Stage Manager to see if it fits them.
I have the current iPad Air and think sometimes it might be a little cramped for Stage Manager. I’ll admit, I haven’t given it the time it deserves since I now have a 14 MBP right at hand, so I go back to it constantly as a crutch because I’ve been using a Mac for...well a really long time. Maybe it’s time to give it another chance with a Bluetooth keyboard. I genuinely wish I had an external monitor though. I really want to try that.
As to the press - I’m tired of so much of it. They’re constantly hostile towards everything Apple does - there’s one site I won’t mention that seems to be constantly anti-Apple in its coverage. (And I won’t get into all those rooting for Twitter to fail - what the heck is that all about??) Jackals all - and so completely disconnected from normies.
But, one thing I think that doesn’t get sufficient coverage is what the next generation is going to expect in their computers. For example - my daughter has a ChromeBook for school that has a touchscreen. She LOVES it and frequently comments on how she wishes her MacBook Air had a touchscreen too. Because that’s what she knows. My older kids are much more like me - “why on earth would you want smudges on your laptop screen?” “Why would you ever want to take your hands off the keyboard/trackpad to touch the screen?” And yet, that’s what she wants. I wonder if Apple is going to be forced by the market to add that down the road because the youngs won’t buy a computer without a touchscreen. I sure hope not. I like the abstraction of a trackpad, and Apple is the only company that makes a good one.
Good article. I always appreciate your takes; aware of reality and not reflexively hostile.
I think there's a couple of reasons for people's dislike of Stage Manager:
1. Limited availability (I didn't get external monitor support in 2022 despite buying an iPad Pro in 2020)
2. The potential it could have had. At the moment, I use the standard Split View/Split Screen style of multitasking. Stage Manager just doesn't work for me, and it looks like this is the case for many of the people who dislike Stage Manager.
You made a good point however—it's important for people to try out Stage Manager to see if it fits them.
I have the current iPad Air and think sometimes it might be a little cramped for Stage Manager. I’ll admit, I haven’t given it the time it deserves since I now have a 14 MBP right at hand, so I go back to it constantly as a crutch because I’ve been using a Mac for...well a really long time. Maybe it’s time to give it another chance with a Bluetooth keyboard. I genuinely wish I had an external monitor though. I really want to try that.
As to the press - I’m tired of so much of it. They’re constantly hostile towards everything Apple does - there’s one site I won’t mention that seems to be constantly anti-Apple in its coverage. (And I won’t get into all those rooting for Twitter to fail - what the heck is that all about??) Jackals all - and so completely disconnected from normies.
But, one thing I think that doesn’t get sufficient coverage is what the next generation is going to expect in their computers. For example - my daughter has a ChromeBook for school that has a touchscreen. She LOVES it and frequently comments on how she wishes her MacBook Air had a touchscreen too. Because that’s what she knows. My older kids are much more like me - “why on earth would you want smudges on your laptop screen?” “Why would you ever want to take your hands off the keyboard/trackpad to touch the screen?” And yet, that’s what she wants. I wonder if Apple is going to be forced by the market to add that down the road because the youngs won’t buy a computer without a touchscreen. I sure hope not. I like the abstraction of a trackpad, and Apple is the only company that makes a good one.
Good article. I always appreciate your takes; aware of reality and not reflexively hostile.