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Why would you say you don’t have that feeling about your iPhone?

I feel the same way, because the iPad is dramatically more useful. I’m a gamer so I have a ton of PDFs on it, read comics on it, program on it in Pythonista, write in Google Docs, create charts maps and diagrams, all sort I couldn’t realistically do on a phone.

One of my daughters loves drawing and ‘painting’ on the iPad, I got Procreate for her and she spends hours on it. She complains she’s started tapping to undo when she’s sketching on paper.

Genuinely curious, why, as a gamer, do you have a ton of PDFs?

Maybe they mean table top gamer?

Yep, RPGs. Just started running a game of Blades in the Dark.

Your daughter is paint on ipad pro or ipad? What stylus was used?

Form factor I suppose. I just don't use my phone for as many things as my iPad (which I have always with me, with LTE). iPhone I use for short messages, google maps and quick email read-throughs and taking photos. That's about it. Maybe streaming songs. Any Android phone can do the same, some even better (Huawei Mate 30 Pro cameras e.g.)

iPad can do all the above, plus much better web browsing, reddit, video/youtube viewing, photo editing, email and writing in general (with Apple Smartkeyboard), etc. It works with touch, pencil and keyboard and just feels like my personal device.

If you carry iPad around, why keep iPhone?

Why not something like Galaxy Note? Or one of 7 inch phones if pencil is optional?

On my 9.7 inch iPad I can have split screen, video playing in a small window and a slide over view. When iOS 13 comes out it will have better keyboard support and finally mouse support. If anything I want the larger iPad Air.

As far as the Galaxy Note. Android still sucks as a tablet OS.

I bought a Tab S5e recently. Samsung did a good job with its DEX interface. When activated it's a desktop with a dock and Android apps in windows. Bluetooth mouse and keyboard or soft keyboard. Video out over USB-C to hook it to a monitor with a HDMI adapter. And USB host mode obviously. There is even an Ubuntu 16.04 container sharing Android's kernel. It must be installed separately. It displays its own Unity desktop in a full screen DEX window and it comes with LibreOffice, VSCode, IntelliJ IDEA among the others. Great as ssh client, better than any other I used on Android. I used it to edit some pictures with Gimp and I made it run Rails, to check it could be used for some sw development.

Unwieldy as a phone, too small for really good web browsing.

What would convince me away would have been something like the Huawei Mate X foldable, before the US had to go all ...

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