My biggest disappointment of the WWDC announcements: iPadOS 18

I was mostly happy with Apple’s various announcement at yesterday’s keynote kicking off the 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference. But to say I’m disappointed with the iPadOS 18 info is an understatement.

Sure, iPadOS 18 has a lot of cool new features, but, unless Apple is hiding something, there is no change to multitasking or the Stage Manager feature of the operating system.

None. Nada. Zilch.

And that’s a major disappointment for a lot of folks like me who would like to use the M4 iPad Pro as their main computer for both play AND work. But the incredible powerful tablet is hobbled by iPadOS, and Apple apparently has no interest in changing that.

Personally, I’d love to see the iPad Pro renamed the Apple Pad and run a touch version of macOS. The non-pro tablets could still be dubbed iPads and run iPadOS. If not that, Apple should make some major enhancements to iPadOS to make in a “pro” operating system for an iPad Pro.

Also, macOS Sequoia is getting some nifty video conference enhancements and improvements to using the Vision Pro as a virtual display. I want these features to come to the iPad along with multitasking and file management improvements so I can really use my M4-equipped tablet as a true pro system.

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