“I’ve been developing a new tweak for iPads called Quasar. Quasar is a tweak that allows you to run your apps in windows in your iPad. Just like in a window-based operating system, you can resize, move, close or full-screen windows.” This is really, really cool – and quite useful, too, especially for iPhone-only applications. It’s in the Cydia Store for $9.99.
If Apple don’t already have a prototype of this running in their own labs, then they will be screwed when all the other tablet manufacturers implement it!
Edited 2012-04-30 10:12 UTC
Why would they? This looks a horrible kludge.
As much as I don’t like Metro, the multi-window method used on there is better suited for tablets than this hack to create desktop-style cascading windows.
I’m all for 3rd party tweaks for iOS to extend it’s functionality, but on this occasion I think Apple’s “less is more” approach is better.
i was going to post the same thing, this i don’t think works well on the iPad at all.
The apps are all designed to fit on a small display 9″ so they need all the screen estate they can get, this doesn’t look useful or user friendly and does look very kludgy.
For running multiple iphone apps, though, which don’t always look that great scaled out to 10″, this could be useful.
Samsung has something similar in touchwiz on galaxy tabs. It doesn’t work for all apps though, only a select few, like the calculator, music player, email… Its pretty neat, but you can’t resize the windows other than make them full screen.
I even avoid windows on my notebook. I run most things full screen. I certainly don’t want to be messing around with windows, sizing, moving, etc. on an iPad.
given API restrictions, until I saw cyndia store
My dreams are coming true. Now I have a reason to jailbreak my new iPad
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Particularly, I believe Quasar is a real excuse for me to buy an iPad.
Nice try, now iPad owners can further delude themselves that they’ve got what they really wanted: a tablet Mac instead of a giant iPod.
Hmm, I wanted a giant iPod.
Why is this getting up voted?
Using the first few versions of iOS was liking taking a timewarp back to the DOS days: only one fullscreen app or document at a time, and opening anything else meant first going back to the home screen (the iOS equivalent of the C prompt).
When Apple added the “Playskool My First Multi-tasking” features in later versions, it still like using DOS – but with one of those TSR hacks that let you switch between multiple programs without having to exit back to the C prompt (even though inactive programs just had their state saved and didn’t really run in the background, just like in iOS).
And this hack brings iOS up to the level of Windows 2.0. At this rate, it will only take Apple another 6 or 7 years to get iOS on par with Windows 95!