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No. The iPad is a consumer device designed for passive consumption. A laptop has a keyboard and you can do pretty much whatever you like with it. And it's so c
by MrVandemar 4y ago
No. The iPad is a consumer device designed for passive consumption. A laptop has a keyboard and you can do pretty much whatever you like with it.
And it's so closed, tightly shut. I have a hand-me-down-ipad. I had to buy -- BUY -- a program to be able to load PDFs onto a reader application. My laptop, my android phone, put in a stick or cable it up and you can do anything.
iPads are iPadded Cells.
- jaredcwhite 4y agoThe Files app can read (and edit!) PDFs. And I use an iPad Pro with a trackpad and keyboard almost all the time.
- adyashakti 4y agoDitto. I do multitrack professional music and video production on an iPad, and it’s fine unless I want to use odd time signatures or unusual special effects. Then I dust off my MacBook.
- sircastor 4y agoThis may have been true 10 years ago, but it is certainly not true now. The creative solutions on iOS - specifically the iPad - are fantastic. Paired with the Pencil it has a lot of power behind it.