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> I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on

by bhauer 9y ago

> I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on my work. This is so important. Not only are larger screens better for content creation, they are better for consumption as well. Virtually everything I do on my phone is done so only because of circumstance--I am not close to my home workstation, office workstation, or laptop. If I am anywhere near my workstation, I massively prefer it to a tiny-screened phone. If anything, I am addicted to my workstation(s). But I've been addicted to them for nearly my whole life, so I'm not too concerned. My phone is just something that makes a noble effort to fill that gap while I'm between home and work or otherwise away from the real computers in my life. But it can only do so much with that tiny display and limited input capability. A routine refrain in my life is: "I'll do that when I'm at my real computer."

saurik 9y ago
The closest I have been to a "real computer" in days is using Remote Desktop to connect to one from my iPhone 7+. FWIW, I seriously did some simple video editing using Premiere Pro that I happily admit would have taken me much less time and would have been much more enjoyable to do at the computer... but then I would have had to be at the computer :/. I don't want to be "at my real computer", and I definitely do not want to be traveling back and forth from where I am to my "real computer". I thereby make do with computers no larger than the 12" MacBook and am getting better at doing things on my iPhone 7+. Maybe one day I will never have to sit in front of a "real computer" ever again, and as far as I am concerned that will be amazing.
- drvdevd 9y ago
  Anecdotally, I've actually been driving down the road (passenger side), middle of the woods on the way to the beach, putting out a small sysadmin fire while on vacation (from my Android phone). I know, I know - supposed to be on vacation - but I was just sitting there. And I fixed the issue too. How is that not amazing already??
askafriend 9y ago
To counter this anecdote - my iPhone 7 is my primary computing device. It's the computer that's with me the most, and it's the one that I use the most. Sometimes I'll have my real computer with me and yet I still prefer the handheld form factor and the swipe interactions of iOS (especially when I'm consuming, rather than creating). It's mind blowing how many computing use cases my iPhone completely takes over for me. There's some things that my phone will never be able to fully handle, like my full-fledged Lightroom photo management and editing workflow for example...but that's fine. Even some basic photo editing workflows are being handled by Instagram these days and the touch interactions are surprisingly efficient.
- andor 9y ago
  Have you tried Lightroom Mobile? It works pretty well for me. My editing is usually limited to cropping, white balance, exposure and colors, and I can do all of that on the phone.

by bhauer 9y ago

saurik 9y ago

The closest I have been to a "real computer" in days is using Remote Desktop to connect to one from my iPhone 7+. FWIW, I seriously did some simple video editing using Premiere Pro that I happily admit would have taken me much less time and would have been much more enjoyable to do at the computer... but then I would have had to be at the computer :/. I don't want to be "at my real computer", and I definitely do not want to be traveling back and forth from where I am to my "real computer". I thereby make do with computers no larger than the 12" MacBook and am getting better at doing things on my iPhone 7+. Maybe one day I will never have to sit in front of a "real computer" ever again, and as far as I am concerned that will be amazing.

drvdevd 9y ago
Anecdotally, I've actually been driving down the road (passenger side), middle of the woods on the way to the beach, putting out a small sysadmin fire while on vacation (from my Android phone). I know, I know - supposed to be on vacation - but I was just sitting there. And I fixed the issue too. How is that not amazing already??

askafriend 9y ago

To counter this anecdote - my iPhone 7 is my primary computing device. It's the computer that's with me the most, and it's the one that I use the most. Sometimes I'll have my real computer with me and yet I still prefer the handheld form factor and the swipe interactions of iOS (especially when I'm consuming, rather than creating). It's mind blowing how many computing use cases my iPhone completely takes over for me. There's some things that my phone will never be able to fully handle, like my full-fledged Lightroom photo management and editing workflow for example...but that's fine. Even some basic photo editing workflows are being handled by Instagram these days and the touch interactions are surprisingly efficient.

andor 9y ago
Have you tried Lightroom Mobile? It works pretty well for me. My editing is usually limited to cropping, white balance, exposure and colors, and I can do all of that on the phone.