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Work is not always about content creation, some people work mostly by consuming content (reading websites, browsing photos, selecting movie clips, navigating PDFs, or something else) and iPad is great for consuming content.
But not as good as a Mac at any of those tasks?
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> so you expect to get things done by throwing files between various different tools all day — then iPadOS is never going to work for you. GP was right, iPadOS is never going to work for anyone having to send a pdf to someone else.
So, to be clear, it is not possible to email a pdf on an iPad?
If you wish for Adobe Scan to store the scan in "Files" automatically, well, you can't. You have to "share" them individually FROM THE APP to "Files".
And I think you will understand, now : this is the same shit show when trying to upload something via FTP. Like family photos.
The UX is stupid. The workflow is abysmal. The discovery is inexistant. The teams responsible for this at Apple don't care, as it's been like this for _years_.
What else are you going to use an iPad for, except for editing family photos and annotating pdfs ?
I use mine to watch Netflix.
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But not as good as a Mac at any of those tasks?
What is so hard to understand about the fact that this is for you and not necessarily for everyone ?
Plus, I'm interested if the person I'm replying to actually thinks it's _better_ than a Mac or just "also good".
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But not as good as a Mac at any of those tasks?
Could you elaborate? In what way?
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I don’t actually have an iPad, only iPhone. But if you give me a couple of hours I will do so and reply to your comment with my results
I did try on my iPhone and it didn't appear to work :(
The API is at the same state across all versions of Orion as far as I can tell, which means that at the point it works on your iPhone it will also work on iPad. I would guess that it will be quite soon considering even a couple of weeks ago uBlock didn't work 100% and now it is fully functional.
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Pro users use audio interfaces. The headphone jack is useful for quick improvised sketching or listening but Apple's official dongle will be fine in those situations as well. It's actually a pretty well made DAC for its size: https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu... For any serious work you'll probably be around a decent audio interface anyway.
I've got several high end audio interfaces, but they're not much use on a plane or a train.
Yes, it's slightly more inconvenient but I wouldn't dismiss the whole product due to a missing port few people (including me) use these days.
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The biggest drawback of iPad OS is lack of windows, to drag around.If you don't need to multitask - iPad is OK. I tried going all iPad and my husband opted for iPad Pro as personal computer - it is woefully underutilized. "And that's not just me"
> biggest drawback of iPad OS is lack of windows, to drag around First thing productivity users do to a Win or Mac laptop is install a windows manager so they don't drag windows around. iPad Pro in its landscape dock provides split screen with adjustable ratio, as well as left and right floats, along with swipe between desktops, as well as push to view and pick a diff app. One app wide, one app narrow, tends to put t…
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> The raw filesystem is an antiquated interface Not really. It has often been tried to find something better, but there really isn't. It works decently on Apple because they set certain constraints and standards. But overall it is like saying a table of contents in books is antiquated. You don't need it for belles lettres, sure. The analogy doesn't fit too well, but there a similarities. It is actually the most simpl…
A table of contents isn't the same thing as the raw file system, and is much more analogous to the simplified file system available on iPads.
If a table of contents it is a good analogy depends on what you define as content. For me the content is all the files.
A generic way to view data content is a file explorer that lets you explore the file system. Some abstractions can be here too, but it shouldn't be too much and certainly not to a degree like iOS. I can understand why it is there, it is a consumer device primarily.
If you have more than 10 documents, how do you organize them by topic? Into a new folder? Thought as much...