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They don't seem to know how to switch between apps very well. I'm temporarily between computers and using my iPad as my main computer. I also thought it would
by Teckla 7y ago
They don't seem to know how to switch between apps very well.
I'm temporarily between computers and using my iPad as my main computer. I also thought it would be a fun experiment so that I could learn the pros and cons of using an iPad as my main computing device first hand.
The new(-ish) mouse support is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. I have a keyboard with a built-in trackpad, and when I'm using my iPad at a desk, it's far superior to constantly reaching up and pawing at the screen. Apple took a huge step forward here.
But there are still some pretty serious issues. The iPad is really aggressive about killing apps, to the point that I'd switch back and forth between apps (using Cmd+Tab on the keyboard) and it would frequently restart the apps from scratch. Even when switching between just two apps. And a lot of apps don't fully restore where you were at when the app was killed.
This issue alone is bad enough that, long-term, there's no way I could use my iPad as a laptop replacement.
The other issue is that I'm a software developer, and the software development story on the iPad (not for the iPad) is quite sad. There's absolutely no support for the two languages I use most frequently (Java and C). I can't even develop a simple web page (HTML/CSS/JS) on the iPad itself. There's no way to save and view local web pages.
Based on Apple's history, I think they'll be stubborn and thus really, really slow to add the features I want (though I think they'll add them eventually).