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Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking | Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long.
Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad’s Mac-style multitasking took so long.
"If you want to rewind all the way to the time we introduced Split View and Slide Over [in iOS 9], you have to start with the grounding that the iPad is a direct manipulation touch-first device," Federighi told Ars. It’s also worth noting the technical limitations of iPhone and iPad apps at the time, which up until then had mostly been designed and coded to match the specific screen sizes and resolutions of the (then-manageable) number of iDevices that existed. Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS.
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