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All iPads What do you love about your iPad?
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Oh, I can understand it definitely. When I had first bought my Macbook Pro which had only usb-c , I had to buy 2 dongles, and then with the Android phones..etc, my iPad became the only thing that I use the lightning for and I started gifting my lightning cables to friends. I do really love a universal charging and data cable as it would avoid so many and different unnecessary cables. Obviously it creates an initial investment for the end user to change their existing cables.
The control center idea seems interesting, I have to try that. I have never ever personalized the control center, I guess that I am missing some practicality by not using it a lot.
When iPad OS released the mouse support, I guess with iPad OS 13.something, out of curiousity, I had paired my Logitech MX 2S bluetooth mouse to the iPad and it was needing the assistive touch for it to be enabled and when the assistive touch was disabled, even tho the mouse was paired, it was not working. The things may have changed allready, I need to test it again. :=)
The convenience of it for watching movies and tv at night. Larger screen than my phone.
For me it's the versatility.
It's my bedtime reading device, my morning newspaper, my TV when in the camper van, my web device. my 'quickly logon to work' when doing out of hours email catch ups and lastly it connects to my bike when I do Zwift racing in the man-cave.
I went to the larger 12.9" iPP in 2018 and have never looked back. No need to upgrade it yet.
It's my bedtime reading device, my morning newspaper, my TV when in the camper van, my web device. my 'quickly logon to work' when doing out of hours email catch ups and lastly it connects to my bike when I do Zwift racing in the man-cave.
I went to the larger 12.9" iPP in 2018 and have never looked back. No need to upgrade it yet.
Yeah, they used to require it back when mouse/trackpad support was considered a beta feature. It stopped being necessary when they officially added mouse/trackpad support to iPadOS (I think that was around the time of the Magic Keyboard announcement).
Ease of use. Basically an extension of my iPhone with a bigger display. Great apps.
I love the option of using it in either portrait or landscape mode. For some activities like reading or shopping, I prefer portrait. For viewing photos or watching videos, I prefer landscape.
I also love that I can take handwritten notes on my iPad and they are later searchable. This way I never have to look for the notes that I want. Plus, they are also on my iPhone.
I also love that I can take handwritten notes on my iPad and they are later searchable. This way I never have to look for the notes that I want. Plus, they are also on my iPhone.
I have many apple products (2020 mbp, 2012 iMac, iPhone XS, among others) but my 7th gen iPad may be my favorite. It’s just the perfect device for what I do most: watch videos and read. I got it last year during the holiday sale period for $330 (128 gb). By far the best value on any apple product I’ve ever had or will likely have.
What I like the most about my current iPad? The sound! Speakers on a 12.9 iPP just surprise you.
I’ve used iPads since the first one, which I bought on holiday in Florida (I’m from Sweden and back then it could take a while for new Apple products to reach our shores), and I loved it instantly. Back then the world was not entirely sure about the use case for a ipad. Anyways - I loved mine and kept upgrading every now and then, more often over the first years since it leapfrogged every years to level out later.
It’s been my main personal computer for years now. I still keep an old iMac, and I have a work PC laptop and a work Macbook Pro. But id say 95% of my personal computing is on my current iPad Pro 11”.
Light, fast, long battery life, portability, built in LTE. It’s all I really need. The iPad is my most used Apple product bar none.
It’s been my main personal computer for years now. I still keep an old iMac, and I have a work PC laptop and a work Macbook Pro. But id say 95% of my personal computing is on my current iPad Pro 11”.
Light, fast, long battery life, portability, built in LTE. It’s all I really need. The iPad is my most used Apple product bar none.
Hello again!
So finally, after mounths that my MX Master 2S was not working anymore because of that gesture button problem, I fixed it, and connected to my iPad Pro. WOW. I can see that it improved a lot! I mean, already the basic pointer thing is amazing that I don't need to open the Assistive Touch to enable the mouse. Love it!
But I ended up enabling it to be able to use the other buttons of my mouse as I realised that you can use the other buttons only with assistive touch. But then again, I did like you do, I added a shortcut to the control center and now it is much easier! Thank you for the advice! Even tho, I still wish that apple gave us the option to disable that circle menu icon by a setting toggle for those who uses it only for extra mouse buttons. But well, I won't complain, this way it already works better and on luma fusion it was very interesting to use it with the mouse cursor taking the shapes of the tools you use!
I love my iPad Pro even more and more everyday. I will be honest, I have both an iPhone (iPhone 7 which I do not use anymore, bought it when it came out) and Android (Samsung S20, love it). I have both Mac (Macbook Pro 15" Touchbar, almost maxed spec) and a 2016 MSI Dominator 17" windows PC. I bought my first mac around 20 years ago, it was a transparent iMac G4 400 MHZ (I guess it was G4 and not G3, don't really remember) and it was my first brand new computer that my parents had bought me, I was around 14 years old back then. And since then I had 2 Mac Pros ( 1 of them was 2 x 2.23 mhz and the other one was 1 x 2.66 mhz intel xeon version) and then a 2012 15" Macbook Pro retina to follow up with the Macbook I stated above. And in that time I had several windows PC, even more than the Macs. And I had several iPads (iPad 1, iPad 3, iPad Mini 1 ) But I want to say this, I am not neither an Apple fanboy, nor a Windows fanboy. I enjoy technology and using them for my work or fun. But I will admit that since when I tried the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro with a matte screen protector, I am an iPad Fanboy! If Samsung Tab S7+ had as many beautiful Apps as the iPad Pro, I could see myself becoming a Samsung Tab S7+ fanboy as well.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to share my enthousiasm.
What do I like about my iPad ?
2018 iPad Pro 11' -- iCarez matte screen protector. Apple Pencil 2 with Notability.
I like that my iPad, with the screen protector, offers a kindle like readability for books and news articles. I save articles throughout the day to Safari's read list and then read them on my iPad later in the day. The readability of the iPad Pro 11 is astounding - even more so with the matte screen protector. I've spent 6 hours reading before on the weekends on this device with no eye strain. I'm consuming books at an increasing rate. The text is just perfect - turn down brightness and it is amazing.
I have completely replaced my Moleskins and Leuchtturm1917 notebooks along with a trusty Parker Jotter --- with Notability and my Apple Pencil 2. I do all my free-thinking, note taking, etc with this device - I even sign papers with it (especially now days).
I use it as a reading device primarily. Countless news articles, books, and macrumors are consumed via this device. Because of this, even if I spend 6+ hours reading on the weekend, the battery of the device takes a tiny hit and I only have to charge it once or twice a week as I keep the brightness fairly low.
Sometimes I'll hook up my bluetooth keyboard to it and pound out some journal entries on Day One but ... I save most of my typing for my MBP.
Plainly put - the readability of text on this iPad is far superior to any Apple device I've ever used. Because of that, it is my most used device and where I do a LOT of reading.
I have the 2018 11” iPad Pro and I love it! I’ve had it since February of this year with the Folio Keyboard and I couldn’t have asked for a better piece of tech. I use my iPad mainly for web browsing, media consumption (Netflix/Hulu/Disney+/YouTube), writing, and listening to music. It does everything I need it to do and it’s really worth the money, for me. I thought I would notice a big difference after having a MacBook Pro as my main device to use for such things, but it’s really been great. I haven’t had a laptop since November of last year and it’s been a great experience so far. Plus, its more portable than a laptop is in terms of weight. Plus, I could have it in landscape mode with my Folio keyboard or in tablet mode whenever I want. At this point, for my usage, I don’t really need a laptop. This iPad Pro does everything I could ever ask it to.
Yesterday night I went out to help a friend who needed me to make some changes on the menu of his bar in Photoshop. He only had the pdf, and not the fonts, so I had to copy paste letters here and there changing the writings (was a boring work lol ) , but he is not very tech savy and uses his mac only for browsing and pdf viewing..etc.
So I brought my Macbook Pro and iPad Pro with me. I used my Macbook because I find the way you copy paste in Affinity Photo quite cumbersome ( first go to the selection person, select, then go to the pixel persona, copy & paste, then go back to the selection persona to deselect ) and since I had so much to copy paste, prefered using my Mac in that case. But this is not an iPad limitation, it is just that the apps I have in iPad had that limit.
Long story short, while I was working there, I had two friends, who were playing with my iPad Pro where we were listening music from Youtube or they were browsing ..etc. I had my Apple Pencil too, instead of using they were using Apple Pencil and you had to see them, they did not stop praising my iPad Pro even tho it is “just” a 2015 model. They were praising:
- Speaker quality.
- How nice it was to navigate thru the system and apps with Apple Pencil.
- The screen size ( I have the 12.9 )
- The speed and portability.
- Battery life
The night ended as “ You made us want to buy an iPad with an Apple Pencil now ! You should be an iPad salesman ! “ LOL
So I brought my Macbook Pro and iPad Pro with me. I used my Macbook because I find the way you copy paste in Affinity Photo quite cumbersome ( first go to the selection person, select, then go to the pixel persona, copy & paste, then go back to the selection persona to deselect ) and since I had so much to copy paste, prefered using my Mac in that case. But this is not an iPad limitation, it is just that the apps I have in iPad had that limit.
Long story short, while I was working there, I had two friends, who were playing with my iPad Pro where we were listening music from Youtube or they were browsing ..etc. I had my Apple Pencil too, instead of using they were using Apple Pencil and you had to see them, they did not stop praising my iPad Pro even tho it is “just” a 2015 model. They were praising:
- Speaker quality.
- How nice it was to navigate thru the system and apps with Apple Pencil.
- The screen size ( I have the 12.9 )
- The speed and portability.
- Battery life
The night ended as “ You made us want to buy an iPad with an Apple Pencil now ! You should be an iPad salesman ! “ LOL
I don't use iPads much anymore but what I like about them the most is . . .
The invisible OS. Just tap on your application and you are in. No need to worry about file management (mostly). No need to play with the OS in any capacity. No worries of having important OS level functions be screwed up. It's grerat for people who just want this for a content consuming device. Also people not so good with computers, the iPad is very easy to understand and use.
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The invisible OS. Just tap on your application and you are in. No need to worry about file management (mostly). No need to play with the OS in any capacity. No worries of having important OS level functions be screwed up. It's grerat for people who just want this for a content consuming device. Also people not so good with computers, the iPad is very easy to understand and use.
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We all know that's bound to change one day, knowing how Apple are.