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An Early Look At Android M's Multi-Window Mode For Tablets
Ars Technica has a look at the experimental multi-window mode in the just-announced Android M. It's not a headlining feature yet: "buggy, busted, and buried, but intriguing nonetheless" is how Ars describes it. Android Police is similarly faint in its praise. All that might be true, but to many users even a partly working multi-window mode would be welcome, especially one blessed by Google. (Some Samsung users have had multi-window support for a while, but not built into the OS proper, and multi-window capabilities can be found via app, too.)
I'd guess it being built into the OS might make more app developers test against it for those apps which don't appear to work properly. That having a standard implantation since few other manufacturers are going to use Samsung's version.
oh the irony, Microsoft and Ubuntu and GNOME-tards making sucky UI to turn PC into a tablet like thing, while many tablet users are sick of the tablet UI and want the tried and proven simple window manager. I've noticed a trend in any software with UI, high IQ morons taking that which has been refined, and making such things obtuse, disruptive to workflow, and changing for change alone's sake.
As for productivity... it's a tablet OS, it's consumptive, not productive.
The artificial distinction drawn between "consumptive" and "productive" user interfaces on a device that can theoretically support both is the problem. It acts as a barrier to participatory culture, as a lot of people don't have $400 to splurge on a "productive" device when they get the itch to do something "productive".
It's (normally) missing a keyboard
For someone who already bought a tablet computer or received one as a gift, a $50 Bluetooth keyboard is still less expensive than a $400 "productive computer".
(always missing) a mouse so you can actually copy and paste with some accuracy and speed
True, the text selection mechanism on Android through level L leaves something to be desired. But that's an argument for improving the text selection mechanism, not for continuing "consumptive" policies.
I've noticed a trend in any software with UI, high IQ morons taking that which has been refined, and making such things obtuse, disruptive to workflow, and changing for change alone's sake.
I doubt any of these 'you will do things my way because I know what's best and it's not what you think is best' bozos really have high IQs. Dunning-Kruger effect seems far more likely.
"When will Firefox OS be getting this functionality?"
They'll get tabs instead.
To a hipster, everything old is new, because they know nothing about the past.
I hear that, in the next radical upgrade, Android will add 'borders' to their apps and you'll be able to click on these 'windows' and move them around the screen and resize them, so you can control how much of each app you see, based on what you're doing at the time. It'll be so cool!
Because Android allows apps to run in the background (and I mean actually run, not register to be woken up by certain events as on iOS), we have that already. This will just let you interact with them all at once.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Actually, iOS allows an app to have multiple application windows. iOS has had multi-monitor support since forever. What you meant to write is that iOS does not display multiple apps on the same screen.
Seriously dude, your real world experiences are WRONG. Get your facts from the internet, not real life.
Joking aside, give up. The guy you're trying to argue with is utterly impervious to logic, facts or reason. I've tried arguing with him and he's utterly impenetrable.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
In other words "la la la. I'm not listening."
...to random statements on the Internet that conflict with observed reality.
That seems sensible to me.