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Hi, I'm Leander Caney. I'm the editor and publisher of CultOfMac.com and this is another Caney's Corner
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The iPad. At one time this was the future of computing. Launched five years ago, 2010. At the time, you know
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I think we all thought that we weren't going to be using desktop machines and laptops anymore and that we would be using this
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Thing is, sales have been flat and declining the last couple of years
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It came out of the gate like a rocket and everyone bought one
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but no one has been upgrading them for the last couple of years. There's a whole bunch of different reasons for this. One of them is because, well, people keep them for several years
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Also, people share them. And maybe, you know, Apple has something to do with this
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Have they been good guardians of the iPad? Have they developed it, the hardware and the software, in ways that make it a
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complete must-have buy? So I think that one of the most important changes in the iPad is coming in iOS 9 and that is with
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split-screen multitasking. This is really going to change the way that you use an iPad and it will make it much, much better for working on
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But there's an interesting wrinkle as well. The interesting thing about split-screen multitasking is that it is limited to only the latest iPad hardware, the iPad Air 2
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And this is interesting because previous generations of iPads, you know, may or may not be able to run this. It may be a bit degraded
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You may need that CPU and graphics horsepower to be able to do this
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But I suspect that this may be one of the things that Apple is doing to encourage people to upgrade
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their hardware more frequently. And that's by doing special software-only features. How many features can you add to a piece of glass
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You know, there are only so many things you can do with it and making productivity, making software like split-screen multitasking exclusive to certain devices is another way of doing it
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So not only does split-screen multitasking make your iPad more relevant and better for work, it makes your old iPads
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