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The iPad is useful for certain things. If you're trying to share a document with another person and discuss it, it works much better on an iPad. Both people can
by D13Fd 7y ago
The iPad is useful for certain things. If you're trying to share a document with another person and discuss it, it works much better on an iPad. Both people can hold it, scroll it, etc and it feels much less awkward than discussing things on a laptop.
It's also a bit better than a laptop for digging in and highlighting reading material.
I would not use it as my main PC, though, that's for sure. The apps just aren't there yet.
- dannyw 7y agoMy Surface works perfect for this. I just take the keyboard off and it's a tablet, with a lovely pen you can use to highlight.
- SiVal 7y agoI really don't think it's that "apps aren't there yet". The platform is more than a decade old and has an order of magnitude more apps and app development than the Mac ever had. I really think that the reason people who own Macs and iPads keep ignoring their iPads when planning to do real work is not that there hasn't been enough effort yet put into creating apps for iOS. It's that the form factor and OS were designed together for one-finger selection from a portable menu of amusements, not for plugging in a standard thumb drive and flexibly deploying a combination of ordinary work tools on a project folder full of productive work.
- novok 7y agoThere is also a lack of desktop OS features. I tried using my image management software, Mylio, and I had to keep the iPad pro on and unlocked for images to sync to the cloud, and it did it a lot slower than my 6 year old macbook pro. Same with SD card imports and other general multitasking tasks. Web browsing on the ipad pro with a keyboard cover although is pretty good!