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I don’t think much “computing” is done, in our sense of the word, on tablets and phones. Personally, I’ve found that almost any slightly complex, has-to-be-done
by aj7 4y ago
I don’t think much “computing” is done, in our sense of the word, on tablets and phones. Personally, I’ve found that almost any slightly complex, has-to-be-done-once-and p-right, action is better performed on an actual computer. And that’s not even considering writing new programs.
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoThis hasn't been my experience. I'm able to be surprisingly effective on my smartphone. I've constructed trip itineraries, balanced outing budgets, shared shopping lists, designed room layouts, computed food and drink recipe ratios, built DJ sets, laid out wood pieces, and read books using my smartphone. Coding is probably the only thing that I find unparalleled with a keyboard and a seated position than my smartphone. I used to game more often when I was younger and I still generally prefer to game in a seated position though I have gamed on my smartphone before.
- 2fast4you 4y agoReally agree. Programming and gaming are the only things I use my laptop for. I have my iPad for CAD and art, everything else I do on my phone. All my trip planning is done on there, all my finances, everything on the phone.
- eropple 4y agoWhat CAD tools work well on an iPad? I'd love to try it. Fusion 360 is okay on Windows, but it's pretty bad on a Mac.
- buggy6257 4y agoAlso very interested in this!
- code_biologist 4y agoI've heard good reviews of Shapr3d on iPad. Can't vouch for it myself, but I've heard positive sentiment.
- aj7 4y agoNone. Trust me, you need a mouse.
- eropple 4y agoI tend to agree, but I feel like there should be a way to come up with a good Pencil interface.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoDifferent tools for different tasks. Can you score a movie whilst maintaining perfect clock sync with umpteen devices via SMPTE and load-balance your DSP across a cluster of computers whilst recording an orchestra in real-time? Can you do digital productions in Unreal whilst designing the set in real-time and showing it to the director in-camera as the cast are on set? No, and I wouldn't want to try anyway. What you're describing is fairly basic stuff, and the computational resources required to perform those tasks has been outpaced by the miniaturization and price-to-performance value of a smartphone or tablet. But complex tasks have always required complex tools, and complex tasks become more and more complex over time, they take advantage of modern-day performance. The smartphone is the modern-day personal computer. A workstation is still a workstation, and just because it comes in an ATX tower doesn't mean it's consumer-grade hardware.
- aj7 4y agoWhile certainly a cpu is working, I don’t classify any of that as computing. To me, computing is any app where your output is files for later use. So for instance, Apple Notes is borderline computing, and virtually anything using a browser isn’t, with the exception of running your own files.
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoThat seems highly reductive a definition because then a filesystem is a requirement for computation. A lot of early computing worked only in memory and results were printed out on tape or via TTY. Moreover it seems like your definition of computing only makes sense as input into another computer program. Regardless many of the examples I provided do produce files. When I do finances I create spreadsheets, when I share shopping lists I'm making formatted text documents.