{"id":36210,"date":"2022-06-15T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36210"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:32:52","slug":"state-managers-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/15\/state-managers-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage Manager’s Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I do feel Stage Manager has a bit of an identity crisis. Who is it for? The long tail of users? It’s way too confusing and unpredictable, harder than a desktop. And for pro users? It’s far too rigid and opinionated, meddling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I’m not sure that it’s harder than a desktop. Stage Manager on the Mac is not for me, but it seems like a useful feature for people who don’t want to manage windows but also don’t want everything full-screen.<\/p>\n\n

I think I might actually use it on iPadOS, when I have an iPad that supports it. It seems less confusing than the current iPad multitasking system when multiple windows are involved.<\/p>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Related: where on earth is a system-level feature for tabbed windowing? That’s the kind of thing that should have been introduced several steps earlier than resizable, overlapping windows on iPad 👀<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Dan Grover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s nice macOS is getting attention, but demos seem to revolve around solving problems of imaginary person that uses only native, Apple-produced apps. Stage Manager does nothing for my 79 browser tabs I use to get work done.<\/p>

Typical pro macOS user probably has things spread across a zillion Google Docs, Slack channels, various cloud services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n