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These days I’ve settled on the notion that the iPad is simply a bad computer for most people.
My view of the iPad had gone from “this is the future” to “this is better for most people, but not for me”.
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It seems every generation of iPad + a keyboard case eventually ends up being as portable as a MacBook but with worse ergonomics. … The App-only model works fine on a phone where interactions are small, quick, and isolated, but not for productivity.
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Mac may not be the future, but iOS on an iPad doesn’t seem like it either. No one needed an Apple II when the Mac was 8. iPad is 8 years old and most people still need a PC. I’ll still keep a dev iPad around for testing code.Ī convertible Mac wouldn’t be very elegant but it would be a better product for more people than iPad Pro. I’ll miss it on flights and on the treadmill, but that doesn’t justify its existence. There’s almost nothing it does better than a MacBook + iPhone. New experiment is to leave it in the closet for a month and see if I miss it at all. Every 6 months I try to see if mini can be my travel computer – it can’t. Other is 2015 iPad Mini 4 which is my main iPad. One 2017 iPad in the kitchen to run recipe app + Siri. Since then, my view of the utility of the iPad has dramatically deteriorated. Even when I focused on “ordinary” tasks like managing to-do lists, handling email, even web browsing, it always performed worse than a laptop. Over the years I kept trying experiments with integrating the iPad into my life and it always came up short. For me the clear winner was the MacBook Air. In summary, my view was that the iPad wasn’t a good fit for me personally as a laptop replacement, but it could be for someone else, and at some point in the future it could evolve into a good choice for everyone. They work, but they go against the grain of what makes the iPad great. The keyboards have to be charged independently of the iPad and occasionally lose their pairing with the iPad. These cases make lugging the extra keyboard around a bit easier, but they all add some extra measure of heft to your bag. I’ve tried some cases with integrated keyboards, such as the Rocketfish Capsule. Using an external keyboard can greatly improve the experience, but now you have to lug around an exterior keyboard which changes the portability equation. There are a number of great writing applications available on the iPad (such as Writer or Pages), but it’s not a great device for writing a lot of text. I recently took a four hour flight and I wanted to use the time to do some serious writing. The iPad is a very versatile computer, but there are some jobs it’s just not well suited for. I compared traveling with an iPad to a MacBook Air, and the Air was the winner of the two:
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I guess that’s not as sexy as claiming we’re in the “post pc era”, but I think this is perhaps a more useful frame in which to see the current transformation in personal computing and the market changes it’s producing for once dominant companies like Microsoft.Įven though I had a positive view, I was sure that the iPad was not a great fit for me personally.
The revolution we’re seeing is that the desktop metaphor, at least as it’s currently executed, doesn’t serve a very large class of users as well as a simplified single tasking touch interface. Here’s another gem from 2012 where I argue that the desktop computing metaphor is too complicated for large amounts of computer users: The user’s mental model is not only simplified, but it is much easier for a nontechnical user to synchronize their mental model with the information conveyed in the interface. There’s not even the disconnect of moving a mouse or flipping switches. The interface is entirely graphical, and to manipulate the state of the computer, you physically touch the graphical representation of the control that alters state. You only have a single application running at time, so there’s question of what the computer is doing. There are no windows, so there’s no question of what one represents.
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What an icon on the home screen means is pretty simple compared to the icons on a Windows desktop.
… dramatically simplified view of the computer’s state.
I’ve espoused the view that the iPad represents, if not delivers, the way forward for personal computing for most of the people in the world. It’s either the future or a big gimmicky toy. Early on I was pretty bullish on iPad I saw it as a work in progress pointing the way towards the future of personal computing.įor most people, you look at iPad as either the next phase of personal computing or as a large iPod touch. My thinking on the utility and importance of the iPad has evolved a lot over the years.
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