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Even those tasks are irritating on an iPad - outside of the limited multitasking, viewing multiple things at once is impossible. I can't look at an email and re
by cballard 11y ago
Even those tasks are irritating on an iPad - outside of the limited multitasking, viewing multiple things at once is impossible. I can't look at an email and reference a website linked in it. I can't look at a few websites while composing an email. Comparing multiple travel booking sites side-by-side? Nope. If I try switching back and forth, the iPad has probably unloaded one of the tabs in the meantime due to memory pressure - why can't their state be archived to disk and loaded from that, at least?
It's interesting because for a very long time Apple said "maximizing is usually a waste of space" with the zoom button's behavior.
- metafunctor 11y agoModern iPads have something called “Split View”, where you can have two apps open and active at the same time. Only two, though, but it mostly solves this problem.
- ant6n 11y agoSeems cumbersome. And do you get that on that 280$ version?
- cballard 11y agoThat is the "limited multitasking". You're limited to two, your ability to view information is arbitrarily limited by the application displaying that information. Want to view two emails side-by-side? Use two emails apps, I guess.
- morgante 11y agoThis is anecdotal, but my mother has an iPad and she vastly prefers using it to the computer for everything from email to images to web browsing. I bought her a brand new iMac and it's basically been unused.