All iPads What is your primary use?

[ozaz]

I have an iPad mini 4. I use it pretty much entirely as a consumption device, apart from occasionally sending short emails. I use it more or less daily when relaxing at home on the couch. I also tend to use it at least a few times a week in bed and whilst using home exercise equipment (indoor bike, treadmill). I also use it when I'm using public transport to travel to/from work (which is not regularly) and I'll always bring it with me on multi-day work trips and vacations.

I have many, many apps of various categories and niches that I've installed on my iPad over the years, but the activities and apps below are probably the only ones that get regular use (at least once a week)......

More or less every day
* Web browsing (Safari)
* Reading news apps
* Reading email (Gmail and Outlook)

At least once a week
* Watching Video (mainly Amazon Prime, Now TV, BBC iPlayer, YouTube, The Great Courses, Coursera)
* Reading eBooks (Kindle, Google Play Books)
* Browsing/using shopping apps (e.g. Amazon, eBay)

 

[nburwell]

Main uses of my 10.5” IPP:

1. Reading The New York Times
2. PlayStation Vue
3. Netflix
4. Internet browsing
5. Photo editing

 

[spacebro]

Full laptop replacement except for eclipse, visual studio, Xcode, wireshark and some usb tools.

 

[sparksd]

Same here. And I’d guess our uses are the same as the majority, which is why iPads can totally replace “laptops” for most people

As long as you don't have other use cases/needs that require a laptop (or are more efficient on a laptop). These lists are only what people primarily use the iPad for and don't necessarily mean you don't need a laptop.

 

[kupkakez]

Everything. This is my computer now.

Banking
Shopping
Web browsing
Games
YouTube
Tv occasionally

 

[csurfr]

Full laptop replacement except for eclipse, visual studio, Xcode, wireshark and some usb tools.

If only we could get a legit coding program.

 

[spacebro]

If only we could get a legit coding program.

Mbed for arm products works like eclipse in a browser. You compile and it pops a bin into your downloads, you drag it to a mass storage device to flash. Can’t debug.

 

[csurfr]

Mbed for arm products works like eclipse in a browser. You compile and it pops a bin into your downloads, you drag it to a mass storage device to flash. Can’t debug.

I’m not going to sugar coat it. I loathe Eclipse. The only IDE I’ve used that can’t make up its mind if it wants to auto capitalize my code or doesn’t. I’ve spent hours going through lines of code because it has fixed some but not others. It’s insanely annoying. I think the IntelliJ is supposed to be better.

 

[spacebro]

I’m not going to sugar coat it. I loathe Eclipse. The only IDE I’ve used that can’t make up its mind if it wants to auto capitalize my code or doesn’t. I’ve spent hours going through lines of code because it has fixed some but both others. It’s insanely annoying. I think the IntelliJ is supposed to be better.

Everyone is releasing eclipse tools, you have to use it if you want a vendor supported ide. Even mbed is releasing mbed studio, and eclipse version of their web tool.

 

[csurfr]

Everyone is releasing eclipse tools, you have to use it if you want a vendor supported ide. Even mbed is releasing mbed studio, and eclipse version of their web tool.

Why do you have to ruin my evening like that?!

I guess I’ll just have to get used to it.

 

[spacebro]

Why do you have to ruin my evening like that?!

I guess I’ll just have to get used to it.

You could use atmel parts but they make you use a visual studio tool instead. Nordic parts don't have an eclipse ide but they want you to use keil or vanilla eclipse.

 

[kristalsoldier]

My IPP 10.5 gets used for...

1. Reading: iBooks (ePub)/ Liquid Text/ PDF Expert (PDF)/ Kindle
2. Note taking: OneNote/ Good Notes
3. Email: Outlook
4. Browsing: Safari/ Chrome
5. Reddit: BaconReader
6. Cloud Sync/ Storage: OneDrive
7. File Management: Files/ Documents/ OneDrive
8. Messaging (viewing only): Discord
9. Specific apps: Medium/ Flipboard/ YouTube/ Office 365 (Word/ PowerPoint/ Excel

 

[bluebar]

What is your primary use of your iPad? Most used Apps? Mine is weather tracking. My number one app is RadarScope with the tier 2 subscription. But I have pretty much every weather app, and about 60 NWS pages bookmarked in Safari.

1. Email: Mail App
2. Browsing: Safari
3. Cloud Storage: iCloud/Dropbox
4. Work: Performing Inspections: FormConnect Pro

 

[azpekt]

as this is my primary and only laptop/tablet/computer, I do everything on it:
- emails;
- chats (hangout, skype);
- presentations (keynote) and word processing;
- notes (notability) and related pdf processing for studies;
- drawing and creation of concepts (concepts);
- software development (blink for ssh/mosh; dash for manuals);
- photo/video light editing (lumaFusion, snapseed/photos);
- media (netflix);
- safari for poking around internetes;

i’m on 2017 12.9 pro, and man this thing basically does everything i really need - but i so with i can use external monitor not just to mirror things...

 

[DoubleFlyaway]

2017 12.9 pro as my primary device— I would say my main uses are:

-Teaching online using the app for the company I contract with or FaceTime/Skype/Google Hangouts for teaching other students not through that company, with an online whiteboard in Safari for those students.
- I use the Files app a lot for marking up PDFs I use while teaching.
- iBooks (or whatever it’s called) for referring to electronic books I use while teaching.
- Other uses of Safari
- Other uses of FaceTime
- Mail
- Games
- Netflix/YouTube/AppleTV
- Occasionally Pages or Numbers
- Native app for editing photos (I’m pretty into taking travel photos, but I’m not sophisticated with editing them. Just a bit of cropping, maybe a little adjusting the lighting. But I don’t want to edit heavily— it feels like cheating somehow.)

 

[macgeek18]

I bought a 5th gen iPad for media consumption and reading my notes and studying on the go. I got tired of firing up a laptop or my desktop just for browsing and videos in bed. It works very well. I sold my 12.9 Pro a while back and bought the 9.7 and it’s the perfect size for me.

 

[maflynn]

What is your primary use of your iPad?

Content consumptions, non-work stuff

Most used Apps?

web browsing, comic books, some games Some Excel stuff. My kids use it for homework