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What most people use a computer for these days are not what we use a computer for. Most people probably require little except a phone for most computing needs.
by TravelPiglet 7y ago
What most people use a computer for these days are not what we use a computer for. Most people probably require little except a phone for most computing needs.
* Getting a convenient dock and better physical keyboard.
* Surfing on an iPad is probably a lot better and fast experience than a similarly priced computer.
* A lot of dedicated apps for most tasks people need. (Youtube, Spotify, Netflix, etc)
* People use email/dropbox/similar for sharing files.
* File browser definitely needs improvement. Specially for working with email attachments.
* As long as you can edit videos recorded with your phone/ipad.
* Most people use the built in camera and mic or perhaps a dedicated computer for conferencing.
* Getting Excel on it would be sufficient for business programming.
- wyager 7y ago> What most people use a computer for these days are not what we use a computer for. That's why I'm posting this on HN and not Facebook or something. Everything you mention could be done on a smartphone - no need for this allegedly "computer replacing" iPad. The people at my company who use Excel absolutely could not do what they do on an iPad.
- TravelPiglet 7y agoApple released a pro product that’s not aimed at programmers. The physical form factor and keyboard are useful even if the computing could be done in a phone.
- TravelPiglet 7y agoDo you have any example of what your Excel users couldn't do on an iPad?
- izacus 7y ago> What most people use a computer for these days are not what we use a computer for. Most people probably require little except a phone for most computing needs. Most people also don't buy such costly computers, so I'm not sure why do you think a hugely expensive iPad "PRO" would be something meant for "most" people.
- TravelPiglet 7y agoPeople buy really expensive iPhones as well. My point wasn’t that the iPad Pro is for most people. Just that the features it and the future regular iPad supports are enough for most of the computing needs.