iPhone X Who else use's their iPhone for everything?

[BigMcGuire]

I spent 7 months using my 8+ for everything. I got an Anker Bluetooth keyboard and journaled on it, wrote emails, read books, watched movies during work travels... then... I just had to get an iPad. A bigger screen is just so much nicer. I’m 32 so I guess I can’t blame my eyes yet but an iPad 2018 screen is so much nicer to read books, watch YouTube videos, and do my “writing” via a Bluetooth keyboard. I’m writing this post on my iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard as well.

I’m more and more surprised at the reality that more and more people are using their phones as their primary computing device. I see more people trying to do computer classes at college with their phones/tablets.

I still prefer my old Dell Ultrasharp 24’ when I can, my MacBook Pro 13’ screen is amazing, and I’ll use my iPad if I’m mobile. But if I was limited by $, as I have been in the past, yeah, I’ve used my iPhone for a lot of things.

Bugs me to no end when mobile web sites have half the features as the Desktop Site version.

 

[Thaddeuz]

I dont. Because I cant.

Example of my morning. I am on a website and need to search for a specific word or else it would take me hours to find it. On a Windows computer I just do CTRL+F and find the word instantly. On a iPhone you cant.

 

[russelljg]

I use it less and less. If it’s ‘instant’ I use the watch, if I have the iPad with me e.g as I type this I always use that and if it’s ‘tv’ then unsurprisingly it’s the TV.

However the clue is in the name , I do use it to make calls.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I use it less and less. If it’s ‘instant’ I use the watch, if I have the iPad with me e.g as I type this I always use that and if it’s ‘tv’ then unsurprisingly it’s the TV.

However the clue is in the name , I do use it to make calls.

Expensive phone to have just to make calls.

 

[russelljg]

Expensive phone to have just to make calls.

Would be...… but more sense than to fork out £1000 for an X

 

[thisismyusername]

I wouldn't say I do everything on my iPhone/iPad but I certainly do most stuff on it. A PC is used for the rest. I'm actually surprised at how much I do on my iPhone/iPad. My iPad Pro has definitely exceeded my expectations.

My wife, however, is one who pretty much does everything on her phone.

I am on a website and need to search for a specific word or else it would take me hours to find it. On a Windows computer I just do CTRL+F and find the word instantly. On a iPhone you cant.

1) Tap the address bar and type what you want to search for on that page
2) You'll see the normal Google search stuff auto-filled in. Scroll down past that and tap "Find <what you typed in>" under "On This Page".
3) Use the up/down icons.

I'm not saying this is easier than ctrl+F but it's certainly possible, and quite easy, to do what you want on mobile safari at least.

 

[Brandonjr36]

Hey guys new to the community here, just wanted to say i love my iPhone x!! just curious who else does everything in the world on their phone? I run my youtube and mainly do everything on my phone then if i need a bigger screen i use my iPad Pro. Just curious if this is what the future is going to be like and who else enjoys these products as much as i do.

Thanks,
Josh

Yupp pretty much use mine for everything. I definitely get my money worth out of it.

 

[44267547]

The only thing I *can’t* use my iPhone for, is business related documents. Mainly because we don’t have certain mobile access to certain sites, which I have to revert to my laptop. But otherwise, my iPhone predominately is my connection to the outside world, but I don’t utilize any social media at all.

 

[Mrbobb]

Old Geezer here, the laptop generation, and that's my main device. A millennial saw me working on my laptop and actually asked me what I use it for! ah, the mobile generation.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I use my phones (iPhone X's) for about 85% of what I do. The rest is done on my iMac.

 

[eyoungren]

Old Geezer here, the laptop generation, and that's my main device. A millennial saw me working on my laptop and actually asked me what I use it for! ah, the mobile generation.

My son is Gen Z (2003) and depending on whom you're asking my daughter is either Gen Z or later (2008). Both have used laptops since an early age (because I'm Gen-X and that's what's in my house). Both of my kids are comfortable with iPhones/iPads (and non-Apple versions) but their main drivers are laptops.

This is reinforced with the fact that the schools they attend have laptops in their labs/classrooms and either issue a laptop or require them to have one.

When we go out to a coffee shop (local) they drag their laptops along. My daughter is more comfortable with an iPad/tablet (it's more intuitive to her) but she uses the laptop a lot.

My wife is early Gen-X, raised by a very early Boomer. I'm solidly Gen-X (1970) but both my parents are solidly Silent Generation. My wife grew up without tech and has been forced to grapple with it late in life. My dad was an electrical engineer in aerospace and my mom taught computer-science, so we always had computers around.

It's interesting to see the congruence of our combined influence on our post-millennial kids.