In defense of Stage Manager

November 08, 2022

If you read the Apple blogs, you likely think Stage Manager -- the new iPad windowing system -- is a huge disaster.

Thanks to a few loud voices, the consensus seems to be that the feature needs to go back to the drawing board.

But Ed Hardy, Cult of Mac's resident iPad power user, says there's actually a lot to love.

Ed has used the feature for more than five months, and he thinks a lot of the criticism is because "it doesn’t work like Mac."

Instead, Ed thinks it's actually better at multitasking than the Mac, and in time, "it’s going to be brilliant."

Has Ed lost his mind, or is he onto something here? Dive into our top post and decide for yourself.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

The new Stage Manager multitasking system is Apple’s answer to requests for floating app windows on iPad. It’s drawn a lot of criticism, much of which is undeserved. I use the new system all day every day. Here’s why there’s a lot to like in Stage Manager.

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One more thing ...

"We went through this stage at Apple where we went out and thought, 'Oh, we're gonna be a big company, let's hire a professional management.' ... It didn't work at all. Most of them were bozos. They knew how to manage, but they didn't know how to do anything!" -- Steve Jobs, 1984.

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