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Phil Schiller Says iPad Pro Can Both Supplement and Replace the Mac

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It might seem trivial but, until selecting text is easier, I’ll struggle to use any iPad as a Mac replacement.

I agree sooooo much. This is a key point which makes me grab a laptop every time.

Given how they've dumbed-down the whole experience it's not surprising to hear they think this. What they're really saying is they've treated MacOS and it's developers like red-headed stepchildren and just want them to go away. Customers be damned, as is the Apple Way.

Just licence it already. macOS has evidently became too hard to maintain - just keep making hardware and make sure some good *nix distros support it.

Opposite is with iOOS tho - I wouldn't trade it for Android, but the hardware is not top anymore.

of course the average HN user won't relate to that. But anecdotally my mom gets by fine (somehow) with an old ipad. She can pay bills, check email, watch videos, browse sites - that's enough. So I can believe Phil here.

Agreed, the selection here on HN isn’t the market. Even Schiller addresses the fact that it isn’t for everyone, but it can (and does) work for many. I’m pretty confident my folks could get by with just an iPad, and my wife could almost entirely do it with an iPad Pro (she’s in the creative space).

Sure, iPads fit the maximize one-task-at-a-time workflow that people did for many years on Windows, and Windows 8 was trying to push.

However, if you like to have all sorts of stuff serendipitously scattered about a very large (or multiple very large) monitors, an iPad isn't going to work so well!

I agree with Phil .. I’ve actually fallen into a pattern where i use a Mac Pro for work, but use the iPad Pro as my personal computer .. for tasks such as reading, surfing, reserving tickets, listening to music and writing

I think we're all biased here, a lot of us are developers I'm pretty sure and developing on iOS is not practical as of now so it doesn't really make sense for us to be full time iPad pro users. Anyone do dev on iPads?

Yes.

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Screens for Remote Desktop.

Ulysses for Markdown that syncs to all devices and publishes to many formats. Visit the website to understand all the things this software can do with Markdown and more.

iThoughtsX for mind-maps that can be graphs (most only do trees) and export to markdown, PowerPoint, Word outlines, etc.

Goodnotes or Nebo for hand notes and diagrams depending on your style.

Liquid Paper, PDF Expert, and/or Papers 3 for turning white papers into new thoughts. Especially pleasant with Apple Pencil.

Kindle for your books library. MS Office for ... office docs.

How surprising.

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