What I’m hoping is that it will continue to evolve to be as functional but in its own way- I’m interested in how future iterations of iPadOS might overcome some of its current speed-bumps and failings in a way that makes most sense for a touchscreen computing device. Horses for courses, as you say.įor me: I don’t really want the iPad to just be a touchscreen Mac. It certainly doesn’t work for everyone, and that’s obviously determined by what “work” entails for each individual. I guess part of my knee-jerk reaction is against the notion that the iPad is only good for consumption, or that you can’t do “real work” on one, or that the idea of doing anything more than watching Netflix or reading PDFs on an iPad is a marketing ploy/myth. And the RRP for a decently specced iPad is a lot to put down if it’s just going to be a secondary device in someone’s set-up.Īlso, I get how some of the very things that bring us together in this forum (specific apps, workflows, etc…) don’t exist on the iPad, and how establishing/finding equivalents takes effort, if it’s possible at all. Sometimes it seems like many of us expect iPad + magic keyboard = MacBook. I think there’s just a lot of people in here for which the iPad doesn’t really fit as a main computer, for better or worse. I got back to it with the 9.7” Pro, and haven’t looked back since. But it didn’t turn me away from tablet computing entirely. Whatever MacBook I was working with at the time died, and the iPad was all I had while waiting for a replacement. I first tried working exclusively on a first gen iPad. And I’m looking out for the day when I’ll be able do more with an iPad and an attached monitor than simply mirror with a restrictive screen ratio… Don’t even get me started about my love/hate relationship with Shortcuts.
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I’m a Notion user, but it’s taken a long time for them to get anywhere near feature parity on iOS, and they’re not even all the way there yet (though the latest update for text selection was welcome). And I don’t get to test out all the hot new PKM tools at launch because so many of them don’t work well in mobile Safari, or don’t have equivalent iOS apps. Aggressive memory management is also painful, which raises another point: being an iPad Power User (ahem), you’d think I’d be first in line for a fully specced, top-o’-the-line M1 with all the RAM, but hey- my tech budget has limits, and I try to be responsible. Text selection and file management can be painful.
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That said, I haven’t powered up any of my Mac machines thus far this year. The other main reason I’d go back to a Mac would be hardcore file management- I’ve got a dud HD that I’ve been meaning to attempt to retrieve files from. I’ll probably fire up one of the macOS machines when I get back to either of those. I also dabble with a bit of creative coding, though again it’s been a little while. I have a background in web development, though I haven’t been keeping up with that at all (my personal site is woefully overdue an update…). I use a generic Apple Pencil alternative when I need to do anything that demands precise fine grain control. I like my tablet to be a tablet, and I’m under no illusions of it being a laptop replacement. I’ve tried a mouse with iOS once, and it’s cool to know I can do that, but that’s not part of my set-up. I use a Corne mechanical keyboard (split ergo) and generally stay away from keyboard cases. I picked up the 12.9 from eBay during lockdown when I decided I needed some more screen space while working from home. The 11” was my daily driver, and the Mini was really useful to have in hand through meetings and workshop sessions. My current iPad inventory: a 12.9” 3rd gen, an 11” 3rd gen, and a 5th gen Mini. I benefit from the mobility and flexible form factor that iPads offer. I used to be a full-tilt macOS kinda guy, but so much of what I was doing at one point was on the road that I sought a trade off between portability, ease of use and processing power. I have a couple of old Mac Minis and a 2016 MacBook- legacy machines. And I’m no blogger or influencer trying to build an audience off the back of a romanticised vision of an iPad-dominant working life. So I write and edit things, handle research, manage projects (email, task management, CRM, scheduling etc), manage finances and budgets and do many of the other functions you might associate with the above roles. I’m also the artistic director for a self-elective poetry workshop programme, and an editor. Up until recently, I was a poetry professor. I’m a writer, freelance educator and facilitator. (I know, I’ve written this elsewhere, and it seems I’m possessed by a masochistic drive to present a contrary voice whenever this topic comes up…). Or maybe “insane” adjacent: I use my iPad 95% of the time.
Just for some balance, I’m one of those “insane” people. I’m beginning to think I’ve joined the wrong forum here…
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