What about people have to go out to site to survey buildings etc. They can take photos on iPad and write/type notes on iPad and can show information to client etc on iPad. It hard to walk around holding laptop doing same thing plus laptop can't take photos. Also in past they have to use camera and paper/pen then back office type up notes and transfer photo to PC. With iPad they skip this extra work. That one example I can think of right now.
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But since you're younger, and therefore more technically savvy than I am, you should be ready and willing and able to do so no problem right? Did you intend to just make my point for me?
It seems like I have produced as many citations as you have, so I'll not be taking on a research paper task for you. Suffice it to say, I believe the tech producers and marketing folks who want to sell to these tech-savvy younger people agree with me, which is why we have seen the drive to simplify and remove friction in tech products. Young people want to USE technology to do things. They do not have "dealing with technology" as a hobby.
PhaseOne is working on an iPad version of Capture One. I can’t wait to try it, the iPad is the perfect form factor to toss in the bag along with the camera and shooting tethered and process the images while on the go, and the thing is ludicrously powerful.Here are some examples of people using their ipads that I have come across.
iPad Pro M1 for Photographers — Travel Photographer - Austin Mann
Hey from Flagstaff! My wife and I just drove out here to spend time with her mom and family and I got to test the new iPad Pro with M1 as we made the journey. We took the scenic route and stopped in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Monument Valley — both beautiful places to photograph! I ingesteaustinmann.com
Austin Mann uses his iPad Pro for photography work.
How the iPad Pro Changed My Illustrating Career
I am a simple 15-year-old who has loved to doodle for as long as she can remember. I adored my first generation iPad mini, so when the iPad Pro came out I decided I could use an upgrade. What an…the-ipad-artist.com
A (then) 16-year old girl used the iPad Pro to illustrate her first book.
Another God Damned iPad Post
If you’ve gone a few days without hearing someone say the iPad “just isn’t there yet” to be a real computer, just wait a second, someone’s sure to say it anytime now. I write this, of course, from my iPad Pro. I bought this computer at thebirchtree.me
Matt Birchler wrote a fairly extensive post about why he enjoys working from his iPad so much.
Producing, Recording, Editing, and Sharing Animated Videos on iPad
A significant part of my pedagogical approach involves the creation of short, animated videos that convey statistical concepts. Students watch these videos and answer a few quiz questions, which I …teddysvoronos.com
Finally, here’s an example of how to record and edit screencasts on an ipad.
Just some examples of how working on an ipad can be so much more fun, convenient and accessible compared to a conventional PC.
iPads can be great when you’re only focused on ONE task at a time. It’s awesome for Google Meet or I’m deep into Lightroom. However, when my workflow gets complex…the iPad starts losing it’s appeal. Youngins and Older people typically only need to focus on one thing.
But college and the workforce usually require lots of linking between different apps. That’s when I stop using my iPad.
But college and the workforce usually require lots of linking between different apps. That’s when I stop using my iPad.
The reality with Apple is that it has become so fragmented internally, that truly the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Every department works so isolated and in secrecy that it needs someone like Jobs to bring it all together. TC is not that guy. To give you better proof, look all the Immersive audio features, are available to a discontinued HomePod and not the current HomePod Mini. The iPad M1 is another example of that fragmentation. They just threw the M1 chip just because, perhaps iPadOS 15 team wasn't even aware of that.
So the takeaway is if you have a PC you'll have nothing but clutter to figure out while crawling on the phone but with iPad you'll have heavenly bliss? It is kind of insulting. I mean they are comparing a PC with a tablet. Not even the same product category. 🤮🤮🤮
As far as commercials go, it is a pleasant change from all skin crawling pharma ads, bears wiping their asses, arrogant Progressive ads, and the stupid emu.
See bears wiping their asses is also not realistic, because bears **** in the woods. Therefore it is false advertising. And no, I don’t take everything way too seriously.
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Yeah and that example is severely stretching it because anyone who does this type of work and needs to show it clients already has an iPhone or some type of smartphone that they can take pics with which they easily can transfer to a MacBook Air. Years and years before tablets were a thing people have been happily using laptops for work without issue. Suddenly they are a pain to carry around? 🙄
Besides that, your example is not only unique to whomever even does that type of work but it doesn't address my question at all. Earlier a member said people buy iPads for things they CAN'T do on a laptop. I will ignore the next person who provides me an example that can still be done on a laptop. Pretty obvious that earlier poster recognized that was an over-the-top thing to say which is why he/she hasn't bothered to reply.
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When you see it over and over, it gets annoying. Much prefer Subaru dog commercials, very creative.
I prefer the dancing “we’re not candy (don’t eat us)” pills, since apparently that’s what we’re going to do now.
iPad is just square metal until Apple adds a native calculator.
I’d accept no native iPad calculator if HP would come out with something like the HP prime but which has fully integrated RPN. I mean, c’mon HP.
A common misconception….it doesn’t have to be one or the other. For many, you can have both. I have a MacBook and an iPad. I use my iPad for 90% of my daily computing needs - sat on the sofa or in a coffee shop, mobile at work or out in the garden. I use my MacBook for the 10% that just can’t be done on the iPad, or is just way easier on the Mac. Ask yourself this, which one was better value though based on that usage split?
Yes the Mac can do 99% of what my iPad does, but it just doesn’t do it as ergonomically, or as pleasurably as the iPad. There‘s something to be said for reading large bodies of text in a portrait orientation, scrolling is nicer, taking notes is easier, using “scribble” is superb and drawing is on another level. On device, continuous dictation will likely make things easier yet again with iPadOS 15. I see my MacBook Pro as an adjunct to my iPad, not a replacement for.
As someone who will need to cling to my 2019 iMac until it dies since Apple is doing away completely with bootcamp on the new M1 Macs and I need the ability to have a natively running Windows partition for work (without having to pay another 3rd party through the nose every year for Parallels), I somehow doubt at this point my next computer will even be a Mac unless things change drastically in the next couple of years. :/
Windows will probably go to ARM at some point. But yeah same boat as you, apple’s latest exclusion tactics and m1 elitism attitude doesn’t really give me a ton of confidence in the longevity of their support. Yesterday the latest Intel Mac with the garbage keyboards was their top product but now that the m1 came out they’ve started doing little things to make the intel people feel left out and presumably pressuring them towards a new Mac. They’ve done stuff like this with almost every product category. Meanwhile my like 10 year old laptop runs windows 10 better than it ran windows 7
These comments are cracking me up. Ok - so let's see what Apple is saying here.
- iPad can replace a desktop computer in an office environment.
- iPad can replace a gaming machine
- iPad can replace a traditional laptop
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Really? Why? What percentage of office workers do you think are running compilers or large mathematical simulations or any of the other things that people insist require “real computers”?
Um… you could just buy a calculator for a lot less than an iPad if that’s all you care about.
M1 elitism? M1 Macs cost the same as the Intel ones they replaced.
How dare Apple come out with new products that are better than the old ones? I want my 10-year old computer to still be equal to the latest model!!!
Unless they are using a web-browser-based application suite, the mobile versions of office suites alone are not replacement-level features. And how any office workers do I think use MS Office? How many DON'T? How many use an external monitor (or two)? How many can use even web-based apps with 20 open tabs and need more than two apps visible at any given time? How many are screen sharing on video conferencing and need multiple overlaping windows to make all that work? I think it would be safer to ask how many office workers CAN use an ipad. Heck, even Chrome OS is more suited to the office. While it too is saddled by the limit of android apps, it does at least support overlapping windows and multiple monitors.
You posted your response at 11.41 pm (my time), after I was asleep, and you expected a response right away?
I admit that perhaps it was a little presumptuous to claim that certain iPad tasks "could absolutely not be done on a laptop", but I still stand behind my point - there are many people who genuinely prefer to carry out certain tasks on an iPad over a laptop for a number of reasons, and I do not understand why whenever we try to explain this, we either get dismissed outright or the stuff we do gets dismissed as not being "real work".
I have also in an earlier post (either here or somewhere else) about how I, as a teacher, use my iPad in the classroom to teach, which frees me up to walk around the classroom. I suppose if you really want to be pedantic about it, it could theoretically also be done using a windows tablet as well, but the end experience wouldn't be as great, which in turn meant that if I couldn't use an iPad for this, I very likely wouldn't have bothered in the first place. I may be willing to go the distance to enable a certain desired method of working, but I am not a masochist.
And that to me makes all the difference. I am at a point in my life and my career where I just want things to work more than I want them to be cheap. An iPad Pro + accessories can cost more than a gaming rig and an entry level tablet combined, and if I believed that it let me get my work done on my terms, I will gladly pay.
It’s always funny how upset certain computer users get when they see people enjoying something they don’t understand. Without a hint of self-realization, these Mac users look down on iPad users the exact same way Windows users did to them and the Mac back in the 90s. ‘Just a toy’