On a couple of recent week-long trips I found that Internet connectivity was often either unavailable or available with extremely low bandwidth, making cloud storage near useless and certainly not dependable.
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iPad Pro Phil called it a "Windows Replacement"
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On a couple of recent week-long trips I found that Internet connectivity was often either unavailable or available with extremely low bandwidth, making cloud storage near useless and certainly not dependable.
I'm liking that there is a client for the PC/Mac to connect through the firewall, like the old Logmein client.. And there's that mouse support thing going for it..
My 67 year old neighbor replaced her Win8 laptop with an Air I gave her. She also replaced her Kindle fire. Now she takes pictures, updates and reads facebook, facetimes, does emails and attachments, reads kindle books, and does her banking without any issues. In this case it certainly did replace her laptop.
It was the same for the Mini 4. "Same performance as the Air 2".. That's why I said let's wait for the benchmarks and tear downs to verify that the 9.7 was the same as the 12.9.
most of the old computers I see are running applications that are not available on the iPad. Companies often have hundreds of softwares (plenty of them are custom made). Even my mom can't replace her laptop with the ipad because she needs to print and much more.
there's plenty of things an iPad can't do. A surface would be better suited to replace old pc..
there's plenty of things an iPad can't do. A surface would be better suited to replace old pc..
Kind of makes sense.. Less power needed to run the smaller screen.. Still, don't say it's the same then give us less ram..
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Wait, you don't know how to print from an iPad?
it works if the printer is airprint compatible. My recent laser printer doesn't work with it. My mom have two printers (standard and photo printers) which aren't supported either.
If you can replace your pc with an iPad, you probably don't do any **** with it anyway.
I would guess that the majority of PC users really don't do anything with their computers that they couldn't just do with an iPad. Very few of the basic PC users are writing apps or playing games more intense than solitaire or Minesweeper; they get a browser and an email client and they're good to go.
yeah, that 2GB RAM just squashed any incentive I had for buying one. Looks like I'll stick with the Air 2 for a while longer (until perhaps a killer deal on the 12.9 Pro surfaces)
After spending 8 and a half hours on the phone doing tech support, the LAST thing I want to do is touch a PC. Plus, since I picked up my first iPad, I haven't really felt the desire to mess with my PC, except for the occasional 3D design or movie rip.
Strange - you can spend the same time trying to book a genius bar appointment 4 weeks out.
then the answer is the same, try rebooting, or do a re-install...
Maybe thats the basis for the windows replacement comment - the support now sucks just like it did on windows back in the day?
then the answer is the same, try rebooting, or do a re-install...
Maybe thats the basis for the windows replacement comment - the support now sucks just like it did on windows back in the day?
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Strange - you can spend the same time trying to book a genius bar appointment 4 weeks out.
then the answer is the same, try rebooting, or do a re-install...
Maybe thats the basis for the windows replacement comment - the support now sucks just like it did on windows back in the day?
Excuse me, it takes me a just a minute to book a genius appointment on the Apple Store app. How are you scheduling, via carrier pigeon?
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Nice, but that's only because you don't know HOW to use an iPad.
But that wouldn't be a "call" now would it...
I can schedule a appointment for any of the vendors via the website in a few clicks, apple however is normally fully booked for weeks in advance.. So much for "it just works", clear only when it wants to..
Just saying, if we are going to throw stones in a glass house.....
Or install Printopia on a computer that is attached to the printer. Yes, I am aware that this means keeping a computer. But in this house anyway there are 6 other (Mac naturally) computers.
Well Tim said he was "sad" that people use older pc's, so they're not above saying stupid crap.
But if they did say "post pc era". They wouldn't be wrong. Most people do most of their computing through the computers they have in their hands....their phone
Thats a good point. I guess they've lost their way on the iPad. There are no commercials anymore. If they dont come up with ProOS for the iPad , the category will go the way of the iPad and just fizzle out over the next few years.
But that wouldn't be a "call" now would it...
I can schedule a appointment for any of the vendors via the website in a few clicks, apple however is normally fully booked for weeks in advance.. So much for "it just works", clear only when it wants to..
Just saying, if we are going to throw stones in a glass house.....
But, why call?
I know this is a tired argument, but I was really hoping this would be addressed with iOS9 and the split-screen multi-tasking. It wasn't. The iPad is still not a laptop replacement, not even for basic tasks like web browsing, chat, and email.
One of the main features of Windows 3.x, and later vastly improved in Windows 95, was scalable windows. This feature was also one the main selling points of OS X - truly scalable vector-based graphics. The ability to arrange windows based on a users needs is very powerful.
This is the scenario: Check my email, see there is a new email with link to a website, open the website, compose a reply email while quoting from the website, send a quick IM to someone asking timing for plans later, reference their response in the email I am still composing, and send the email. This is super basic.
On Windows / OSX / ChromeOS: this is very easy to do. I used to take it for granted, until I tried doing this on iOS. There are very few steps. The only unintuitive step is probably arranging the windows to fit both a browser window and the email compose window at the same time, but really this takes 1 second. Everything else is totally pain free.
On iOS for iPad: this simple everyday task is a total mess.
Starting with the just the first part, open email, click on link in email, which opens safari. Then you swipe from the right to bring up multitasking, which will load your last used split-screen app, then swipe from the top of that to change it to email, then bring the center divider to the center to get some usable space for both, and begin typing your response. You need at least 4 actions to set up the work space.
Then, here is the rub, if you clicked on a link in Mail to open Safari, and brought in Mail again as a split-screen app, it's arranged with Safari on the left (primary) and Mail on the right (secondary). This means to keep Mail open to but swap-out Safari for an IM client, you have to get Mail in the primary side, by dragging the center divider all the way to the left, then swiping from the right to open up the split-screen view again which will bring up Safari as the most recent app, then swiping from the top to bring up the selector menu and pick your IM client. That's another 4 actions just to IM!
Unless of course the IM client hasn't been updated to support split-screen yet, because for some asinine reason Apple requires developers to make this update even if they already have a universal app with all the iPhone-scale graphics in there.
So basically, any sort of use case involving viewing a website, emailing, and IMing at the same time is like playing Fruit Ninja on iOS.
One of the main features of Windows 3.x, and later vastly improved in Windows 95, was scalable windows. This feature was also one the main selling points of OS X - truly scalable vector-based graphics. The ability to arrange windows based on a users needs is very powerful.
This is the scenario: Check my email, see there is a new email with link to a website, open the website, compose a reply email while quoting from the website, send a quick IM to someone asking timing for plans later, reference their response in the email I am still composing, and send the email. This is super basic.
On Windows / OSX / ChromeOS: this is very easy to do. I used to take it for granted, until I tried doing this on iOS. There are very few steps. The only unintuitive step is probably arranging the windows to fit both a browser window and the email compose window at the same time, but really this takes 1 second. Everything else is totally pain free.
On iOS for iPad: this simple everyday task is a total mess.
Starting with the just the first part, open email, click on link in email, which opens safari. Then you swipe from the right to bring up multitasking, which will load your last used split-screen app, then swipe from the top of that to change it to email, then bring the center divider to the center to get some usable space for both, and begin typing your response. You need at least 4 actions to set up the work space.
Then, here is the rub, if you clicked on a link in Mail to open Safari, and brought in Mail again as a split-screen app, it's arranged with Safari on the left (primary) and Mail on the right (secondary). This means to keep Mail open to but swap-out Safari for an IM client, you have to get Mail in the primary side, by dragging the center divider all the way to the left, then swiping from the right to open up the split-screen view again which will bring up Safari as the most recent app, then swiping from the top to bring up the selector menu and pick your IM client. That's another 4 actions just to IM!
Unless of course the IM client hasn't been updated to support split-screen yet, because for some asinine reason Apple requires developers to make this update even if they already have a universal app with all the iPhone-scale graphics in there.
So basically, any sort of use case involving viewing a website, emailing, and IMing at the same time is like playing Fruit Ninja on iOS.