Bloomberg: Apple delayed iPadOS 16. This will be a problem for users. We are accustomed to the fact that the release of iOS and a separate iPadOS for tablets takes place on the same day. The company taught us this almost with the first release of iOS 4 in the summer of 2011: both iPhones and iPads received it at the same time.
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But 2022 brought its own changes. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, iPadOS 16 will be released a month later than usual.
Here you can object: Apple showed iPadOS 16, but did not name the release date. This is true. And the company never says at WWDC when exactly the public versions of its new operating systems will be released. However, several of Mr. Gurman’s sources confirmed that Apple wanted to introduce iPadOS 16 along with iOS 16 before the end of July, but then decided to postpone it.
What is it connected with?
Mark Gurman does not give an exact answer to this question. However, he is very unflattering about the health of existing iPadOS 16 betas. For example, one of the announced features does not work properly. This is Stage Manager – a redesigned multitasking mode:
The idea is interesting, but the implementation is lame. The feature isn’t available on most of the iPadOS 16-enabled iPads. It keeps crashing, apps take up too much space, and can’t be called intuitive. Apple was so disillusioned with Stage Manager that it made it optional and included in the “Control Center” – nonsense for a company peremptorily referring to its innovations.
What problems might arise?
The release of iOS 16 will bring several new features. For example, there will be a function to edit and unsend messages in iMessage, iCloud shared photo library, new tools for collaboration and pastime. And all this will be unavailable to iPad users for about a month after the release of iOS 16.
What can this lead to?
As unexpected as it may sound, this will lead to Apple releasing iPadOS alongside macOS in the coming years. This is due to the fact that the company is trying to make iPads closer to poppies than to iPhones. And Stage Manager, which will also appear on macOS Ventura, is a vivid confirmation of this.
Technically, this can become a kind of sign that will become a symbol of the convergence of two different operating systems. Such a future looks more logical, especially given the fact that Apple is facing an idea crisis for tablets: they are wildly powerful, but what to do with that power?