What the Majority of People do on a Tablet ?

[mr.bee]

Apple's Business Strategy

No one buys a Mac or iOS device because of how well they work with productivity apps. Apple is primarily a hardware company, and anything they do is geared toward selling more Apple products. Do they want people to have a good experience using productivity apps on an Apple device? Yes. iWorks is a response to Microsoft being slow with Office updates. Microsoft got the message, and responded. Is Apple going to go out of it's way to create and maintain a productivity application when Microsoft is now producing one good enough for 90% or more of their customers? No. The ROI is not worth it.

They are indeed a hardware company selling products. But as you may have noticed they are promoting the iPad 'pro' as a full productivity device replacing your laptop...and that is is not.
the number crunching businesses still use Excel and apple cannot handle it, so it is not a replacement. so it's not sad to use a 5 year old pc. I have experienced it more than enough that companies with revenues of 250k to more than 1 billion € work with Excel. It's far from uncommon.

I buy my mac and iOS because I love to work with it, and try to find a solution for every problem, so so don't generalize with 'no one buys a mac...'
Where do you get the idea it's good enough for 90% of the customers? any sources?

 

[jeremiah256]

They are indeed a hardware company selling products. But as you may have noticed they are promoting the iPad 'pro' as a full productivity device replacing your laptop...and that is is not.
the number crunching businesses still use Excel and apple cannot handle it, so it is not a replacement. so it's not sad to use a 5 year old pc. I have experienced it more than enough that companies with revenues of 250k to more than 1 billion € work with Excel. It's far from uncommon.

I buy my mac and iOS because I love to work with it, and try to find a solution for every problem, so so don't generalize with 'no one buys a mac...'
Where do you get the idea it's good enough for 90% of the customers? any sources?

I'm not sure Apple is promoting the iPad as a full productivity device. They say it can replace a laptop. And it has for many people. On this very site there are people saying it has replaced their laptop.

I'm not understanding your question. I said, "Is Apple going to go out of it's way to create and maintain a productivity application when Microsoft is now producing one good enough for 90% or more of their customers? No. The ROI is not worth it." I was talking about Office being good enough for 90% of Mac and iOS users. Are you saying it's not?

 

[Leo90]

That is what I do the most:

Reading books/papers; watching YouTube and Netflix, Word and Excel; Gaming.

 

[eddiexhart]

I'm a part time hairstylist and part time personal assistant. I just sold my MacBook Pro for the 12.9 iPP.
My main uses are mainly..

Pages
Numbers
Dropbox
Amazon (heavily)
Web Surfing (heavily)
iBooks
Spotify (heavily)
Emailing (heavily)
YouTube
Games (heavily)

I can honestly say that I do not miss having a laptop at all. I actually have fallen in love with the 12.9. It's everything I needed in a tablet/device. It gets everything done, and I can say that it's get it done better than when I had a laptop.
BEST PURCHASE EVER!

 

[Kal-037]

Sketching and writing followed by everything else one would use a regular computer for, (but I use my iPad)


K.

 

[Channan]

Nothing special...

I didn't know there was an app that let you use your iPad as a cutting board. That's so neat!

Now if only someone would make an app so I could use my iPad as a bathroom scale and my life would be complete.

 

[Foggydog]

Once I get my 12.9 set up, I will be using it for PDF docs to create, save and send to the company. (I am a trucker, owner/operator) and being in a small company everything is done over email. Of course I will also print from it as well.
After that, I will watch movies, youtube, and play some COC.
My older mac will stay home and be used by the family.

 

[AFEPPL]

The minimum possible, then i simply move up or down the scale to a different device. (iPhone or rMBP)
My main workflow is watching videos on it when traveling. I tried for a good few months to use the iPad as a laptop replacement and it just wasn't possible.

 

[jdechko]

Email
Excel
Messaging
Viewing/ marking up PDFs with Good Reader (because it can rotate PDFs)
Watching Videos
Note taking in meetings with OneNote
Task Management with OmniFocus
Messaging
Web Browsing
Gaming

Basically, everything I used to use my MBA for but in a lighter, quicker, more convenient package.