My dream is to do all computer work from a couch or hammock. I’m not sure if it will ever work out.
I feel that's got more to do with the UI of the couch or hammock than that of the computer.
Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
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Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the problem with using the browser on the MacBook to access content ?
Maybe it needs a connection and not all flights have that?
Even if you do have a connection, it's typically expensive and bandwidth limited. Having whatever you want to watch already locally on your device just makes more sense.
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#73I really, really wish that Apple had not let developers opt-out their apps from running on M1/M2 Macbooks. My use case is a long flight where I want to watch a movie on a screen bigger than my phone. For a while, some of the streaming service iOS apps ran on my MBP. In fact, I subscribed to HBO Max partially because their app worked on my MBP. But since their rebrand to Max, it no longer works.
What is the problem with using the browser on the MacBook to access content ?
Some of the apps allow you to download the content, while the browser version doesn’t. In case you don’t have to wifi on the flight.
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#74I know Apple has a strong resistance to the two-in-one form factor, but an M-series MacBook Air with detachable screen that seamlessly transitions between macOS and iPadOS is basically my dream device.
They want to sell you two devices, and a monthly subscription to iCloud to interoperate between them.
And in the case of the iPad, try to sell you them individually for each family member...
It's 2023, and you still can't have multiple user accounts on any model of iPad, "Pro" or otherwise. This is a feature you can just take for-granted on virtually any other "computer" too.
Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
#75My dream is to do all computer work from a couch or hammock. I’m not sure if it will ever work out.
Didn’t you do that during corona? Remote work is still common in Europe if you are employed in the tech sector.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don’t buy these kinds of explanations when it comes to Apple products. They would love to sell you a 2-in-1 device for twice as much. I just don’t think the UX is good enough for their standards. MacOS is poorly suited for touch interactions, and iPadOS is poorly suited for mouse cursor oriented interactions. 2-in-1s are just terrible UX experiences that Apple doesn’t want to be associated with.
Lol no they wouldn't or they'd have done it ten years ago. Apple is after your dollars they care nothing for what's better for you for productivity or any ethics outside of profit really. Their actions over the last 20 years set that in stone.
> they care nothing for what's better for you for productivity
What is your perspective based on? I'm not sure it's accurate, especially for productivity/professionals [1]. This matches my personal experience.
[1] https://www.jamf.com/blog/total-cost-of-ownership-mac-versus...
edit: Any comments about the accuracy of this? Or perhaps something to dispute it?
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#77The concept of this website (sixcolors.com) is bewildering to me. I sincerely hope the authors are being handsomely paid by Apple behind the scenes, otherwise they just spend their lives doing free advertising for a trillion dollar corporation.
Is it though? Seems like (1) they are fans of the products; (2) they want to write about stuff they like; and (3) they figure out that they can make a career out of it.
Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol no they wouldn't or they'd have done it ten years ago. Apple is after your dollars they care nothing for what's better for you for productivity or any ethics outside of profit really. Their actions over the last 20 years set that in stone.
You are just speculating - having a 2 in 1 device is not as easy as “osx on an iPad” or “iOS on a Mac” Until the m1 is was 100% not possible, now that they are both arm it’s possible but still would require an entirely new device class to do it justice
> Until the m1 is was 100% not possible.
Microsoft made that possible at least 6 years ago with Surface Book. Why couldn't Apple? (spoiler they could)
https://youtu.be/SdQQ8uvylJ0?si=as1k5R5BhFTZiys_&t=106
And there are other brands too: https://www.ign.com/articles/best-detachable-laptops
Took me 10 seconds to Google. Why do people go to these great lengths to defend giant soulless corporations is beyond me.
Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
They want to sell you two devices, and a monthly subscription to iCloud to interoperate between them.
And in the case of the iPad, try to sell you them individually for each family member... It's 2023, and you still can't have multiple user accounts on any model of iPad, "Pro" or otherwise. This is a feature you can just take for-granted on virtually any other "computer" too.
You can if you're a school!
https://support.apple.com/en-hk/guide/deployment-education/e...
The feature has existed for years, Apple just won't let you use it because they'd rather sell separate devices to every family member.
For all the talk about environmentalism and their elaborate phone recycling robots, they're not too concerned about the "reduce" part of "reduce, reuse, recycle." Never mind that it's the most important one that you're supposed to do before the others.
EDIT - I'm aware a local users system without a network login system would require a slightly different implementation from schools, but a small 2.8 trillion dollar company like Apple could figure it out if they wanted to
Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
#80I wrote a 160,000 word book this year on an iPad Air with smart keyboard (I find how the pro keyboard doesn't fold all the way back to allow holding the iPad landscape too big of an annoyance to buy one). I think it's a brilliant device, and while limited, does do some things better than the Mac - annotating PDFs and ebooks with the Pencil being one of them. Also nice to hold a document one is working on in landscape so that it looks like it's on paper, yet remains interactive. Yeah I get it's kind of hamstrung and annoyingly clunky in a way that you'd think apple could resolve, but still think as a device it's pretty remarkable, and still got loads of potential for getting better, somehow.
I think I'm going to try laying out my next book using Affinity Publisher - I used the Mac version to lay out the last one so hope I can do the same while finding benefits for doing so with my little paddy.
One other side benefit is that the iPad somehow seems incongruous - with a laptop out in public you're "working" yet with an iPad you're somehow perceptually not.
Plus, iPad coupled with Library Genesis is awesome. Totally awesome. Yeah I'm a terrible libertarian pirate, but it's just incredible. Better than the libraries I've paid a fortune for as part of my education. Heaps better than the annoying tedium of logging in to various publishers and databases and subscriptions via a library website to then use a locked-down epub in a horrible and further locked down DRM e-reader, every one of which I've ever tried is basically an abomination.