TLDR: browsing the web on a phone has felt very clunky and inefficient to use. I got the 11'' iPad Pro and it's really good for web browsing.
I'm the type of person that not only likes to always be "productive", either doing something I need to or want to get done whether it's important or casual, but thinks a lot about how many things I get done day to day. I used to like reading articles I saved on Pocket but now I don't anymore, but for years now, I've been accumulating lots and lots of browser bookmarks on my computer of things to read later. Things that might involve looking at multiple webpages or making google searches and thus not feasible on a phone.
Sometimes I would try to go through those bookmarks on my (android) phone, and even though it's big at 6.5 inches, it would be very clunky to work with the UIs, pages to read while walking, and it just felt very unproductive and cramped. In late March, I woke up one day and realized that it would be a lot better if I got an iPad, so very soon I went to the Apple Store and got both the 11 and 12.9 inch iPad Pros (since the 120Hz ProMotion displays looked and still look really good!) to see which size is better, the 11 inch is better on walks*.
I really like I can view desktop websites instead of mobile ones, especially ones like Reddit which I look at a lot. On walks it doesn't feel clunky to use unlike my phone. I'm a lot more productive on it than on my phone and I didn't think sooner that it was possible. I can finally go through all those bookmarks I've had on the back burner, and it helps me in another way. When I would have stuff like Reddit posts open, I'd rather not bookmark them because I have literally thousands of bookmarks on Firefox, and instead would leave tabs open to read them later, adding up to tons, maybe 100s of tabs. Now I can the URLs of many tabs at a time with this extension copytabtitleurl, and then paste them onto this Shortcut on my iPad with Universal Clipboard (which shares the clipboard between Mac and IOS):
The shortcut shows all the URLs in my iPad clipboard to make sure it was copied, in a dialogue with "cancel" and "OK" buttons. Pressing OK opens the tabs in Safari.
I actually spent a lot of time figuring out how to send many tabs to iOS at a time, and this looks like the best way to do so. I just really wanted to share this. Anyway, do u have any thoughts on this? Do u feel the same by any chance?
* maybe it's not recommended to read on your iPad while walking, but I ALWAYS put it down before and while crossing the street, and take a peek at where I'm walking frequently. I've been doing it for years.
Off topic: my android phone recently broke actually, and if for whatever reason you think that it felt clunky to use because of Android, I recently got an iPhone 13 Pro Max to try, and browsing on it feels clunky as well.
I'm the type of person that not only likes to always be "productive", either doing something I need to or want to get done whether it's important or casual, but thinks a lot about how many things I get done day to day. I used to like reading articles I saved on Pocket but now I don't anymore, but for years now, I've been accumulating lots and lots of browser bookmarks on my computer of things to read later. Things that might involve looking at multiple webpages or making google searches and thus not feasible on a phone.
Sometimes I would try to go through those bookmarks on my (android) phone, and even though it's big at 6.5 inches, it would be very clunky to work with the UIs, pages to read while walking, and it just felt very unproductive and cramped. In late March, I woke up one day and realized that it would be a lot better if I got an iPad, so very soon I went to the Apple Store and got both the 11 and 12.9 inch iPad Pros (since the 120Hz ProMotion displays looked and still look really good!) to see which size is better, the 11 inch is better on walks*.
I really like I can view desktop websites instead of mobile ones, especially ones like Reddit which I look at a lot. On walks it doesn't feel clunky to use unlike my phone. I'm a lot more productive on it than on my phone and I didn't think sooner that it was possible. I can finally go through all those bookmarks I've had on the back burner, and it helps me in another way. When I would have stuff like Reddit posts open, I'd rather not bookmark them because I have literally thousands of bookmarks on Firefox, and instead would leave tabs open to read them later, adding up to tons, maybe 100s of tabs. Now I can the URLs of many tabs at a time with this extension copytabtitleurl, and then paste them onto this Shortcut on my iPad with Universal Clipboard (which shares the clipboard between Mac and IOS):
The shortcut shows all the URLs in my iPad clipboard to make sure it was copied, in a dialogue with "cancel" and "OK" buttons. Pressing OK opens the tabs in Safari.
I actually spent a lot of time figuring out how to send many tabs to iOS at a time, and this looks like the best way to do so. I just really wanted to share this. Anyway, do u have any thoughts on this? Do u feel the same by any chance?
* maybe it's not recommended to read on your iPad while walking, but I ALWAYS put it down before and while crossing the street, and take a peek at where I'm walking frequently. I've been doing it for years.
Off topic: my android phone recently broke actually, and if for whatever reason you think that it felt clunky to use because of Android, I recently got an iPhone 13 Pro Max to try, and browsing on it feels clunky as well.
