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Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?
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#32TV replacement...
Likewise for my family. I also use it to browse the web,but very little. It's an iPad mini. There are other tableta in the house (androids) but I loathe using them.
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#33No.
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#34I love my tablet. I specifically got one with an S-Pen for handwritten notes & diagrams. I got a "Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 With S-Pen", perfect size & cheap enough that I wouldn't feel I'd wasted too much money if it didn't work out. But I love it & just bought another one for my parents.
It has replaced all my loose paper notes. It synchronizes handwritten notes with Evernote, so I can search across all my devices. I use it to take notes while on the phone or during web conference calls. I also use it to write notes while reading Kindle, though Kindle doesn't work in split-screen mode yet. My other uses are Pocket, Duolingo, Toodledo (to-do list), but I could do all of those on my phone. I am dying for a decent Project Management app that works on a tablet with the S-Pen.
Before that I had a Nook Color running Cyanogenmod, but I never used it except to test apps. Pocket wasn't a compelling enough use case; the S-Pen is what made a tablet compelling for me.
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#35My iPad (air 2) works for me as the perfect "consumption" device wherever I are. Reading blogs, kindle app for books (prefer it to the old kindle device by far), twitter, facebook, mails, and so on. Also a few games like fallout shelter for the 5 minutes in between, or even stuff like deus ex, quite immersive gaming experience for a tablet. For when I want to "produce" things, I grab my 13" mbp pro. Actually I have a…
My wife started working for Apple retail a year ago. During training, they asked what an iPad would be used for, and my wife gave pretty much exactly your response -- it's for consumption. WRONG! There was an ad campaign at the time, showing iPads as an important tool in writing music, climbing mountains, etc. They were trying very hard to convince people that iPads were for people doing things, not couch potatoes. I…
Ehmm somebody is using it for more than consumption: https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/616345992506540...
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#36I found it useless until I bought one, being a musician I can easily follow chords on it. I use it too for web development (checking responsive design), Android development and Reading (very important as HN user!). I hadn't spent a lot of money, it's a chinese tablet with same iPad specs.
Yeah, with a decent holder, they're particularly great as "help screens" for doing manual activities. Having a circuit diagram when I'm soldering or a recipe when I'm cooking, which I can easily touch to zoom in or clarify some term, is extremely helpful.
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#37I have a surface pro 3 that I use exclusively for note taking. I'm a physicist and hand written notes are absolutely crucial. The fat iPad style stylii have way too thick a tip for anything useful. Surface Pros, Lenovo tablets with digitizers, and Samsung Galaxy notes are very popular among people who do calculations
Some people are so petty that they feel the need to downvote this because you spoke well of a Microsoft product.
I love my Windows tablets! They're so much more powerful than devices running a locked down mobile OS!
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#38I use an iPad primarily for 3 things 1. Music production/performance. The iPad does few things objectively better than Android and touch responsiveness when it comes to playing music apps is one of them. There's a 100-400ms delay with Android for some reason. I had heard they'd gotten better recently but my girlfriend just got a Galaxy S5 and even though it's a last generation phone it's unplayable for being on time.…
Music production Do you write actual songs on it or rather just work out some melody or beat or so? Just asking becasue I cannot imagine doing the former, especially handling sequencer-style ui's on a tiny screen with touch seems problematic.
Nanoloop's got this covered, it's adapted from a homebrew gameboy program. Had some fun with that on my ipod touch.
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#39I use my iPad exclusively at home. I now never take my work laptop home and it had dramatically made my life better. iPad forces me to be much more switched off but I can still email if need be. It's honestly one of the best things for my work-life balance that's ever happened to me.
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#40OP Here: So iPads are kind of ruling this area.
I just found a brand new Nexus 7 for 150$, do you think it is still relevant in 2015? Or should I just save a couple of hundreds more and get an iPad?