After WWDC 2022 Federico Viticci was very loud in his advocacy that Stage Manager should be optimized to run on older iPads many of which had only 4 to 6GB of memory.
In his recent post "Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right" he’s complaining that Stage Manager should do more because new iPads are more powerful.
Which is it? Build features that take advantage of more powerful iPads or restrict features to accommodate older hardware?
Locking out every old iPad from Stage Manager would’ve certainly been worse and cut off every 2018 iPad Pro user. You can’t introduce major OS features and cut off half the population mid-cycle. We’re in a new cycle now.
Understandable some can be hardware dependent to run effectively. I’ve never liked the approach of cutting off certain features completely to certain devices. Limiting them is definitely the better approach! But hey, Apple wants to give the consumer reason to upgrade, I guess.
@habibcham@dennyhenke the point we’re discussing is also the opposite of forcing people to upgrade, they went out of their way to let older devices work better and now have created a worse situation in the long run for it.
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