I am still not in love with the name “Stage Manager” because it mixes metaphors and is easily confused with “Center Stage“. My opinion is evidenced by the many gaffs I’ve already heard on various Apple-centric podcasts. That said, the mixed metaphor was just one of my issues with Stage Manager’s naming. The other and […]
Monthly Archives: June 2022
I am not the only one who is apprehensive about Stage Manager. Steve Troughton-Smith elaborated his concerns in a thread on Twitter, and even echoes my consternation around the lack of names. I don’t think Apple has figured out the nouns & verbs of the important elements of multi-window multitasking — what is an ‘app’, […]
According to Chris Hynes, it turns out Stage Manager is a rehash of a project he worked on in 2006 called “shrinkydink”. On his blog, Tech Reflect, he described shrinkydink as… …a radical new way to manage apps and windows and effectively made the existing Exposé irrelevant as well as the Dock as a way […]
Below is a rough collection of thoughts I’ve had on Apple’s new Stage Manager. Take into consideration that State Manager is in early beta and that I haven’t tried it out yet so these opinions and reckons are likely to change. Names Names are important for two reasons: They demand and enforce a paradigm, because […]
Over at Ars Technica, Jeremy Reimer put together a nice retrospective of Apple’s Newton handheld in celebration of its 30th anniversary. The Newton turned out to be the first in a slew of PDAs released by a variety of companies throughout the 90s. While these companies correctly predicted a future where handheld computers would be […]