Apple By Lee Mathews May. 13, 2014 2:47 pm
Great news, iPad users! It looks as though Apple has finally decided to bend on the issue of running two apps at the same time on your tablet. If current rumors prove true, split-screen functionality should arrive when iOS 8 launches.
True multitasking is something that iPad power users have been craving for years. Now that it’s apparently on the way, what can you expect? An experience that’s very similar to snap views in Windows 8.1 or like Multi Window mode on Samsung’s Galaxy tablets and phones — cue the fanboy flamewars and patent lawsuit speculation.
Apple’s apparently not just making it so an iPad can display two apps side-by-side. That wouldn’t really add much to the experience, after all. You can also count on iOS 8 including tweaks that allow apps to interact with each other while they’re running in split view. For example, you could open up the Photos app on one side and compose an email on the other. To attach an image, you could simply tap, hold, and drag it over to the Mail app.
Want to share a link from Safari with a friend your chatting with on iMessage? Drag the URL over to your conversation and drop it. The possibilities are virtually limitless, especially if Apple opens iOS 8 multitasking functionality up to third-party devs (and it’s hard to imagine them not doing that).
Don’t count on Apple going so far as to allow more than two apps on the screen at once. Though it looks pretty slick in the concept video one fan uploaded to YouTube, it’s taken this long for Apple to even move beyond a single app. Letting you pack in three or more? It’d probably take a couple more years and another paradigm shift for Apple to make that happen.
What you’ll see in iOS 8 may, however, look a lot like what Samuel Beckett came up with…
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True multitasking is something that iPad power users have been craving for years. Now that it’s apparently on the way, what can you expect? An experience that’s very similar to snap views in Windows 8.1 or like Multi Window mode on Samsung’s Galaxy tablets and phones — cue the fanboy flamewars and patent lawsuit speculation.Apple’s apparently not just making it so an iPad can display two apps side-by-side. That wouldn’t really add much to the experience, after all. You can also count on iOS 8 including tweaks that allow apps to interact with each other while they’re running in split view. For example, you could open up the Photos app on one side and compose an email on the other. To attach an image, you could simply tap, hold, and drag it over to the Mail app.
Want to share a link from Safari with a friend your chatting with on iMessage? Drag the URL over to your conversation and drop it. The possibilities are virtually limitless, especially if Apple opens iOS 8 multitasking functionality up to third-party devs (and it’s hard to imagine them not doing that).
Don’t count on Apple going so far as to allow more than two apps on the screen at once. Though it looks pretty slick in the concept video one fan uploaded to YouTube, it’s taken this long for Apple to even move beyond a single app. Letting you pack in three or more? It’d probably take a couple more years and another paradigm shift for Apple to make that happen.
What you’ll see in iOS 8 may, however, look a lot like what Samuel Beckett came up with…
More...
