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What are your top 3 ways you use your iPad?


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ericwn

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Apr 24, 2016
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Why, do you need to be persuaded to buy one? ;)

I use mine for web, photos, music, note taking, journaling, shopping. Pretty much everything I do when away from work.

Seriously though, as with any computer, use cases will differ significantly.
 

CrockettGTO

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Oct 19, 2007
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Why, do you need to be persuaded to buy one? ;)

I use mine for web, photos, music, note taking, journaling, shopping. Pretty much everything I do when away from work.

Seriously though, as with any computer, use cases will differ significantly.

I have a 10.5” iPP and a 4th Gen mini.
I’m mostly curious because when I bought it I intended to try and find more uses than just media consumption and web surfing, however, I rarely use it for more than that. That got me wondering if others who bought iPads are in the same boat.
 

Shirasaki

macrumors P6
May 16, 2015
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I have a 10.5” iPP and a 4th Gen mini.
I’m mostly curious because when I bought it I intended to try and find more uses than just media consumption and web surfing, however, I rarely use it for more than that. That got me wondering if others who bought iPads are in the same boat.
If iOS 13 ever opens the possibility of iPad use, people will start using it more often or use it in more creative ways. As of now, iPad Pro 12.9” 1TB does pretty much exactly the same thing iPad 1st gen could do, albeit light years faster and miles better. This is why people have a very hard time justifying having one.

I enjoy using this iPad Pro 11” 256GB (12.9” just too big, and 512GB is a bit overkill for me, also the price is too high). But I am still trying to find a killing case that this iPad can do best that previous iPad could not. Maybe 14 days is not enough haha.
 
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tps3443

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Jan 24, 2019
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I bought a 1TB/6GB model with recording storing and editing in mind.

Editing 4K/1080P video mostly 60% of the time, gaming 30%, and media consumption is about 10% maybe 15% at the most.

I cannot wait for the new LumaFusion.
 

Kal-037

macrumors 68020
Video, music, photo editing... media consumption, drawing, writing, printing documents, doing work with pages or word, so in essence... everything.
 

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BB1970

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May 19, 2009
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Audio (and video) editing using Multitrack DAW, Auria, and iMovie. (My videos aren’t done with tons of cuts so Lumafusion isn’t necesssry).
My iPad Pro (10.5) is my primary system. I use an old 2008 iMac to simply back up audio and video files on an external HD.
I have become so used to the iPad and it’s workflow, I don’t think I would need a standard laptop or desktop. That said, a larger 12.9 screen would come in very handy, not to mention the rendering speed converting videos, but I’ll wait until this one becomes too inconvenient due to storage or speed.
GoodReader (a sort of file system for iOS) makes it a lot easier to import and export and store files.
 

nouveau_redneck

macrumors 6502a
Sep 16, 2017
551
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I chose other. I use mine for shelf filler inside my safe. It's Space Grey so every once in awhile, I admire its beauty.
 

muzzy996

macrumors 65816
Feb 16, 2018
1,116
1,061
iPad primary uses for me:
  • Web surfing - though I do wish for desktop level browsers at times since some sites just don’t play nice with mobile browsers (and requesting desktop version of a page doesn’t always help);
  • Forum surfing - love using a single app like Tapatalk to hit my favorite forum areas quickly;
  • Email reading - mostly reading with occasional responding in a pinch but realistically for work most of my emailing comes from Outlook off of my work machine where I have full file system access to edit/prepare/attach things to emails more efficiently than on my iPad;
  • Shopping;
  • Media consumption - Youtube TV, Youtube, cable TV app (Spectrum) - basically video entertainment, for audio I go with my Android phone from which I get better control over audio quality;
  • Note taking and PDF annotation - I take this thing to all of my work meetings and love having information at my grasp and doing handwritten notes that I can immediately digitally share at a meeting’s conclusion;
All in all I spend a ton of time with my iPP daily. Love the convenience. When I get into the office though on weekdays the iPP is a companion for me for meetings, my windows based laptop workstation reigns supreme in my work environment.
 
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The Game 161

macrumors Nehalem
Dec 15, 2010
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For 11 inch pro

Work e-mails
Note taking which is pretty much all day for work
Excel

12.9

E-mails
Browsing
YouTube
Apps
Watching TV/sport
 
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mikzn

macrumors 68040
Sep 2, 2013
3,005
2,299
North Vancouver
For Other "work"- Use Keynote for presentations, PDF's and other media for sales and technical communication and visual support and for one one on one communication about products and tech support

For Other "personal" Music library, guitar recordings, games

and checked on your list - #4 Youtube, Amazon Prime, #6 Books / Reading
 
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SalisburySam

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May 19, 2019
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Since I’ve opted to avoid the latest generation of MBP’s primarily because I don’t like the keyboards, I use my iPadPro for almost everything. I do have an iMac for the heavy-duty stuff, but most all can be done on the iPadPro.
 
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subjonas

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Feb 10, 2014
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Between my 12.9 and mini, I could tick all items in the list since I do pretty much all of them regularly and often (except not so much social media). But my 12.9 was purchased primarily for media creation (mostly mobile drawing)—though I use it equally as much for productivity and communication. The mini was purchased for a variety of functions—primarily reading, surfing, and quick productivity+communication—though I watch short videos and play games on it as well. I would have checked those five primary functions in the list, but since I could only check three, I left off surfing since that’s probably the least important primary function to me and productivity since in its longer forms I prefer using a Mac.
 
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Shanghaichica

macrumors G5
Apr 8, 2013
14,725
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The main things that I use my iPads for (iPad Pro 10.5 and iPad mini 5) are content consumption (watching videos, reading news and magazines), web browsing, email, playing games and online shopping.

I do use it for other things like colouring, scanning documents (iPad Pro), research.

Most of my use is not what you’d call pro however although I have a MacBook Air I can do everything I need to do on my iPads.
 

Koh Phi Phi

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Nov 15, 2017
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The results of this poll, as well the responses in this thread, prove that most people use their $999 iPad Pro in the same way they would use the base $329 iPad: web surfing, email, video consumption, social media, note taking, reading PDFs, Skype calls, etc.

That's, ultimately, the problem with the iPad Pro: its amazing hardware is miles ahead of what its limited software (iOS) can actually deliver, and thus it remains terribly underutiized :( The latest Ipad Pros were a revolution in the hardware department... now the software needs to catch up.
 
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Apple_Robert

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Sep 21, 2012
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The results of this poll, as well the responses in this thread, prove that most people use their $999 iPad Pro in the same way they would use the base $329 iPad: web surfing, email, video consumption, social media, note taking, reading PDFs, Skype calls, etc.

That's, ultimately, the problem with the iPad Pro: its amazing hardware is miles ahead of what its limited software (iOS) can actually deliver, and thus it remains terribly underutiized :( The latest Ipad Pros were a revolution in the hardware department... now the software needs to catch up.
That has been the problem since the first iPad was released.
 
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Koh Phi Phi

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Nov 15, 2017
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That has been the problem since the first iPad was released.

There is a big difference, though: The first iPad wasnt a hardware beast, so it was on par with what the software was able to deliver. Now a days, the gap between the hardware and the software has multiplied exponentially.
 

muzzy996

macrumors 65816
Feb 16, 2018
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Apple continues to make pro model Macs in the price range of several thousand dollars that run the same MacOS software as Mac Minis. Given that this kind of disparity has always existed in other product lines (and it’s not limited to Apple) I’m not quite sure the increased headroom we see in iPP models is going to result in too much software differentiation in iOS.
 
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tps3443

macrumors 65816
Jan 24, 2019
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The New Lumafusion ? What is that going to bring ? When is the release ??

They are going to allow several video layers, and simultaneous audio tracks at once. More effects. And much more fine control of the layers. Maybe in June it will launch.

It looks more like desktop equivalent software, than a mobile app.

It looks like it was built around the iPad pros.
 
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