A device running on a real OS, in the sense of an actual operating system - the thing that just controls hardware and runs whatever you throw at it, will be found even more useful by your partner as it will stretch far beyond ProCreate.
For most people out there computers are the means and not the end. Any feature outside "helps me do X faster/easier/better" is irrelevant.
Name it.
For myself, based on over ten years' experience with Android, and quoting myself:
[T]he OSes themselves are BDSM nightmares. Because the apps aren’t trusted (very rightfully so), they can’t share storage, so there’s next to no interaction between applications. Coming from Unix, the land of pipes (literally streaming data between programs to do useful things) this is … staggering. Apps themselves are aimed at the minimum viable user, economics are painful, and the result is that a million minimally useful buggy pieces of shit bloom, with no way for users to assess which ones don’t actually suck manure through a straw. (Spoiler alert: they all do.) User is denied root. There’s little option for adblocking or firewalling on-device. ...
Touch: the fact that a click and a drag cannot be reliably distinguished … just fucking kills me. Android’s had ten motherfucking years to sort this, and hasn’t figured it out.
Hardware vendors are a fucking disaster. Everything I’ve ever had or used from Samsung has been a massive disappointment (from electronics to appliances), I consider the brand a warning label. Post-purchase OS upgrades from any vendor appear to be exceedingly rare if at all available.
Android has been a privacy disaster from day one. ...
https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e100...
Termux is the one Android app that does not specifically suck.
(Einkbro is rapidly approaching that status, credit where due.)
Tablets, preferably e-ink, are quite good for reading textual material, if the display is sufficiently large (8" is about the minimum, I prefer 10 -- 13").
For virtually any generative / productivity tasks, a laptop is preferred. Sketching is a possible exception, though desktop + Wacom tablet is probably better.
It's the OS and application ecosystem, plus the pervasive surveillance state, that have me utterly turned off tablets.
I don't think my views are widely held. I do think they're valid.
sto_hristo didn't deny your use case.
You're denying sto_hristo's.
You're twisting the situation 180 degrees. I have specifically stated that different people have different computing needs, implying there are no one-size-fits-all solutions. sto_hristo is trying to convince me otherwise, apparently they know for a fact that my partner doesn't need an iPad. Why do I even bother replying to either of you?
Could you point that out to me?
Thanks.
So what does this hypothetical better-than-iPad general-purpose portable computing device do, that her laptop isn't doing already? I'm still waiting for *a* point.
> [...] a platform for advertisements.
Have you actually used an iPad?
You did not explain anything at all in your two most recent replies, and now you are trying to insult me.
All you've done is you're repeatedly making some extremely vague promises of "something even more useful", "so much more to do":
> [...] the thing that just controls hardware and runs whatever you throw at it, will be found even more useful [...]
> [...] there's much more to be done on that hardware [...]
I have already clarified that we also have several other devices (including laptops, desktops, servers) which are already running whatever we throw at them. How would adding (for example) a second laptop, or some other "more useful" (which?) device actually provide more value to someone, whose primary occupation is making art, often on the go - in the nature, in a cafe? Expecting a full day's charge, a very bright screen, first-class support for pencil input? Again, she already has a laptop that runs "whatever you throw at it".
Are you going to argue that I should carry a laptop to check the time, as opposed to a phone or a wristwatch?