The Slim Combo is a nice case but not a very good keyboard. I’m sure there’s a good case out there that will solve this problem, but I’d rather see Apple solve it. I can type more comfortably on my iPhone than I can with my iPad Pro on the couch, in bed, or even just reclined in the backyard. I do my best Chris Farley impression when I’m trying to type with my iPad on my lap. But both of these keyboards work best on a hard flat surface. It really is close enough for me to type at normal speeds. I have the Apple Smart Keyboard as well as the Logitech Slim Combo keyboard for the iPad Pro 10.5" and I have no complaints about the key spacing. I think it’s ironic that the most portable computer I have is the least comfortable to type with while on the couch. But iOS makes it difficult to work with the files outside of DEVONthink and save changes back. By keeping my documents siloed in one app, tagged, and sorted into folders I can usually find what I need pretty quickly. I keep almost every important document encrypted in DEVONthink and sync between devices with Dropbox. Right now I have 20 years of files, of which, 7 years are pretty vital. In fact, it often thinks I want to download a new mortgage app when I search for my recent mortgage statement. Spotlight is poorly tuned for showing me what I need. Finding what I’m looking for is getting harder. Until that time, I’ll keep most of what I might need stored locally on the device.īut that brings me to a new problem on iOS. I look forward to a future when my computer just knows what files I’ll need on a plane or when I’m at a conference and the entire city is using the same WiFi network. 500 GB is not that much space but it will give me room to breath. With file management coming to iOS 11, it looks like I’ll be using my iPad even more. When I bought the new iPad Pro, I made sure to get the maximum storage available, which is 500 GB. Well, that and all of these high resolution iPhone photos of the inside of my pocket. That’s annoying but I only have myself to blame. The maximum storage I can get through iCloud is 2 TB. My photo collection on my Synology NAS is about 3 TB. That’s still a good argument but only if you really commit to making a lot of excuses for your hoarding. There was a time when storage was the main reason I needed a Mac. Not enough business is dependent on serving people that don’t have a PC or Mac. It’s improving but there’s a lot of legacy out. For this, you may need a Mac and a stiff drink. But what you can’t do is upload dozens of financial documents from your iPad to your mortgage company’s web form. For example, you can sign a document on your iPhone while racing back to rescue the Hue bulbs you left in the old spare bedroom. Living in the future has some major advantages if you “want” to work with banks, realtors, and contractors. Death By FormĪbout a year ago I sold one house and bought a different house. If you spend much time on iOS, you may already be cringing. Prior to that, I would have needed to browse through the Apple website in Safari and entered all of my details in a web form. Making an appointment is now much easier with the iOS Apple Store app. I could have visited an Apple Store to do this. 4 Apparently I got a bum install of iOS at the factory. After a call to Apple, they suggested a reset of the device THROUGH MY MAC, which did the trick. It just said “Verification Failed.” I could login through Safari, but no iCloud settings could connect. I was unable to login into iCloud on the new iPad. The very first thing I had to do with my shiny new iPad Pro was plug it into a 2013 MacBook Pro. The simple fact that iOS still has a screen that directs you to plug into a Mac to recover the device, tells me what Apple thinks of iPad independence. I could certainly get by with a motorcycle for 90% of what I use a car for but that last 10% is going to hurt. With the iPad Pro and the changes planned in iOS 11, iOS computing has come very close to replacing my Mac. It’s fun, light, and makes you think really hard about what you might need on a road trip. Even with how little he knew of the future of iOS back in 2013, I still think it was a bad analogy. Steve Jobs once likened the Mac to a truck and iOS to a car. Here’s the Venn diagram of their capabilities in my daily life. While I consider my iPad Pro and my MacBook Pro to both be computers, they are different kinds of computers. 7 years after the iPad release, some of us are still trying to parse out if it is a real computer.
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