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Originally Posted by OtinG
The sad fact is this. If you want to create powerful spreadsheets on an iPad, which is a fairly easy task on a Mac, regardless of whether the iPad has a keyboard and/or trackpad and/or mouse attached, it will take much longer to accomplish than using a Mac because of the lackluster and glitchy OS. iPadOS just isn't designed for office work or professional level work. iPadOS is designed for entertainment and social media.
If a person wants nothing but entertainment and social media, and perhaps some very simple productivity capability, then iPadOS works for them. If a person wants a professional level workhorse of a tool, then iPadOS is NOT going to adequately deliver that capability--probably not ever.
Last night I took some photos with one of my Sony cameras. I then loaded a few images from the SDcard to my iPad Air 2020. Next I tried to use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to edit the RAW images in order to get accurate colors and clean up the photos. I spent probably an hour on my iPad Air 2020 doing what I could have done on my MacBook Pro in PS in 10 minutes or less. Why? The iPad Air 2020 has way more horsepower than is needed for that task. But iPadOS is so lackluster and glitchy that it makes using the interfaces of production apps like LR and PS a nightmare. I never did get the histogram and curves tool to work like they do in macOS. I kept having to redo steps because the touch interface caused all sorts of false entries. Overall the experience was not only disappointing but very frustrating. I got tasks completed, but was rather angered by the whole crappy experience. How in the hell can a photographer use an iPad in the field to get their post processing work done? The answer is they really cannot, not without a lot of frustration and wasting of valuable time. Admittedly some of the problem lies with lazy developers who only give their iPad apps a small subset of the features and functionality of their Mac apps. However, most of the problem lies with the iPadOS which was never designed to address the needs of production level apps like office tools, graphics design tools, photo and video post production tools, etc.
I too doubt Apple will ever make iPadOS into a professional tool for professionals, but they damn sure try to market it that way. They certainly emphasize the entertainment value more, but they still market the iPad Pros as a professional tool for professionals who currently use Macs and Windows computers. My dad, who would get tired of us kids dragging our feet to get something done, used to say, "Either sh*t or get off the pot!" IMO Apple should either make iPadOS truly capable of professional level workloads, or they should stop marketing it as such.
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My father had another saying - "Use the right tools for the right job". If you could do the job on your macbook in 5 minutes and spent an hour doing it on your iPad, my question is why? An iPad simply isn't the right tool for that job. Life is too short to try to hammer nails with a screwdriver.