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Originally Posted by OtinG
I'm guessing your father wasn't a photographer or a professional who travelled about where a laptop was not very convenient to have in the field.
While using the right tool for the job is often the best, it is not always the wisest or most convenient choice. Apparently I'm conversing with Apple fanboys here, who think Apple never does anything wrong. However, ask most any photographer, videographer, etc. which device they would prefer in the field and they will likely say a tablet. Laptops are just too cumbersome to use.
I'm sad that people who just want an expensive toy to watch videos and play games on cannot see past their own limited usage to understand the need for a real professional tool which if properly equipped with a usable, capable OS could make their professional work and hobbies so much easier to accomplish in the field. I think some of you here lack the imagination and the desire to push beyond the entertainment value of iPad Pros and be innovative. The status quo is just fine for you. But it is not fine with me. Apple has finally produce a fairly powerful iPad as far as hardware goes, but the OS simply won't allow it to be implemented easily into a work environment. It is as though someone put a rusty old Yugo engine in a Ferrari. It might look good with the hood closed, but it isn't going to perform very well on a race track or even a city street.
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You don't have to be a fanboy to point out that spending an hour trying to make something work when you have another device that you can do the job in 5 minutes is a pretty big clue that you choose the wrong tool. I know photographers who use an iPad to view pictures, but they don't spend an hour trying to do it. My sister, who is a professional photographer, uses a windows laptop rather than her iPad.
For someone who is suppose to be just an Apple fanboy, I've spent a lot of time complaining on this forum about the direction Apple is going. Over the last several years, I think that Apple has lost their direction, has lost some of their customer focus. Some of that is that I'm probably not part of their target audience, some of that is that they don't seem to be as focused on getting the little details right.
People have different views on how things should be done. Just because someone disagrees with your take, doesn't make then a fanboy. Heck, it doesn't even make them wrong. I have complained a lot about how Apple does audiobooks and the primitive nature of library management on various eReaders, but I also recognize that I'm somewhat of an outlier with regard to how I consume audiobooks and my desire to manage my full library on my eBook reader.