Yeah, an iPad is a perfect device to quickly email your assistant and tell them to do a bunch of stuff.
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iPad Pro Had a business meeting today, with some pretty big executives... iPad Pro was device of choice
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“Er,” I think you missed the point a little. From what the OP said, these executives were not taking both an iPad and Mac or PC to a meetingEr you can use both an iPad Pro and Mac you know. I mean we all do (fintech)
Nah, you really did miss the point.
For example I'm am one of those people @cjsuk was referring to. I work on a Mac desktop in my office but may take just an iPad (with keyboard) when away from my desk.
Actually, I also have a MacBook but even though I like the machine, I use my iPad far more often.
Attended AWS Summit in Stockholm last week. Looking out over the audience, Macs were in the majority.
We get it : you don’t like the iPad
Why care what people think, if it work for you it’s great.
I have been iPad only since the m1 and work on it, I don’t care if someone think its not for work, it pays my bill it’s all I need.
Its’s not for everyone but all I care is if it works for my needs.
I find ms apps awful on ipad. When I do my wife’s accounts I download a basic csv file from the bank with a years transactions and It constantly goes sluggish when scrolling fast. also how do you have 2 excel sheets side by side? I couldn’t figure it out myself as it wasn’t obvious to me so I had to google it and it was hard work managing the window sizes.
I think it’s a beautiful device and great for basics and viewing photos and even editing but as a day to day for office work in excel I find it difficult. I also find emails difficult with attachments as well. Especially the ability to drag them off to the desktop Or files app.
A meeting is for presenting and discussing! Why would you need a laptop for this? The work has already been done so an iPad would be great for just reading off and dotting notes. I’m sure they used their computers to do the other 90% of their tasks. Can it be done on an iPad, of course. Can it be done as efficiently, unlikely.
Same at mine. An increasing number of people are choosing the laptop option -- which often ends up being a Mac device -- for the ease of working in different locations. I'm also seeing more and more iPads in meetings.
And we aren't just spending money for the sake of it. Our institution is funded in the lower quintile of schools in our system. Budgets are legitimately tight.
Meetings are part of work. Being able to efficiently retrieve information, share documents, or join notes together (especially when you can cross projects) is a substantial element.
the above is the ipad powerpoint
and as anyone can see, it has very limited functionality compared to mac version
i can do only a very simple work on ipad powerpoint; when serious work comes, i have to switch to mac.
powerpoint is just one example; many ipad apps are mini versions of desktop applications
And ipad pro m4 with magic keyboard is over $2,000. considering this high price, its OS/software should offer far more than current one.
Ipad pro can be an only laptop for some, but it cannot replace laptop for me until apple allows full desktop applications on ipad pro.
This one is on MS, not Apple. MS has chosen not to offer full-functional Office apps on Apple products - they want you buy a Windows device.
those people don’t work. They look at pdfs someone else made for them.
At my company only Directors and up are allowed to get iPads and they seem to only use them to read emails. Meanwhile us peasants have to actually work on a crappy Dell laptop taking like 10 minutes to boot with a fan that sounds like you are launching a rocket.
At my company only Directors and up are allowed to get iPads and they seem to only use them to read emails. Meanwhile us peasants have to actually work on a crappy Dell laptop taking like 10 minutes to boot with a fan that sounds like you are launching a rocket.
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no i said powepoint is just one example
many other ipad apps are similarly water-downed; even apples own apps like pages and many more (matlab, latex, and list goes on)
I'm not an exec, but have taken on management duties before.
By FAR, the thing I found the most difficult in those jobs was dealing with employees with bad attitudes and who don't respect others in their workplace.
There are lazy people in all jobs but a lot of execs I worked with worked extremely hard, putting in long hours and dealing with a great amount of stress.
Nah, again you missed it. My point was that the most senior execs largely aren’t the ones producing the work disseminated in those meetings; they are the ones consuming it, and that’s why they can afford to use iPads. I worked in a large tech corporation for 10 years so I know this workflow. That’s why they can afford to take the iPad to meetings and leave the PC/Mac behind.
Maybe in your workplace. Every workplace is different.
One of the department heads at my workplace used to use his desktop Mac to create presentations, but then present the presentations in meetings on his iPad. Thousands of employees in that workplace, and hundreds of employees in that department alone.
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Not a single Mac or iPad in my company, and in my home I use almost exclusively Apple devices. Domain policies doesn’t work well with Apple devices.
Yes of course, which is why I said they’re good for meetings. I meant they aren’t as effective for the other tasks you may need such as in-depth research, data analysis, better multi screen support, specialised softwares, better file management and document editing. A lot of which possible of course, but arguably less efficient.
Snazzy labs does a brilliant recent video about how it’s a lot of the little missing features that Apple haven’t included that are holding it back. Of course if it works for you then great, but for a lot of tasks it just ain’t it!
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Execs don't really do productive work to provide utility. They'll consume content which is what the iPad is excellent at.
Nothing against the iPad Pro, but one anecdote about a meeting with 10 people doesn't mean anything.