<story><title>Giving up the iPad-only travel dream</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/why-i-gave-up-on-the-ipad-only-dream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;You&amp;#x27;d think depending on the person, they&amp;#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &amp;quot;creatives&amp;quot; or IT&amp;#x2F;technical&amp;#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t answer a call or text my family with my laptop while I&amp;#x27;m on the go. I can&amp;#x27;t plug my macbook into a car to use maps or play music. I can&amp;#x27;t use my macbook on the beach to take a picture of my child playing in the surf. I can&amp;#x27;t really use my phone to type out anything shorter than a quick text.&lt;p&gt;(Caveat, for the pedants: yes, I &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; do all those things, but with terrible inconvenience.)</text></item><item><author>jll29</author><text>The key sentence here is:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is the fundamental difference between the Mac (a platform that basically lets developers and users do anything they want) and the iPad (where if Apple doesn’t specifically allow it, it can’t be done).&lt;p&gt;Apple (since Lisa&amp;#x2F;Mac, after Apple II, which had an open architecture) likes appliances and to control the user experience, so the iPad is &amp;quot;more Apple&amp;quot; than Macs are.&lt;p&gt;Whenever I am waiting at airports, I have to grin at how much stuff people are carrying nowadays: it&amp;#x27;s not 2, it&amp;#x27;s 3 full-blown computing devices. First there was the mobile phone (which then just a device to call), then came the laptop, 
then the mobile phone became a computer with the iPhone and Android, and finally, the iPad appeared to fill a middle position. You&amp;#x27;d think depending on the person, they&amp;#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &amp;quot;creatives&amp;quot; or IT&amp;#x2F;technical&amp;#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead. That&amp;#x27;s because - as stated in the article - there are known limit, or people are worried that they may need all devices for particular use cases or data kept on them.&lt;p&gt;At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger.&lt;p&gt;I tried working with an iPad (and later iPad Pro) but eventually got back to a Ubuntu Linux laptop (ThinkPad X1 Nano), which at 970 grams is also lighter than my iPad Pro 10&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mvdtnz</author><text>Maybe it&amp;#x27;s an American thing but I don&amp;#x27;t think I know a single person who owns or uses an ipad, with the exception of rich parents who use them exclusively to distract children. I certainly don&amp;#x27;t notice a lot of ipad users in airports or trains.</text></comment>
<story><title>Giving up the iPad-only travel dream</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/why-i-gave-up-on-the-ipad-only-dream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;You&amp;#x27;d think depending on the person, they&amp;#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &amp;quot;creatives&amp;quot; or IT&amp;#x2F;technical&amp;#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t answer a call or text my family with my laptop while I&amp;#x27;m on the go. I can&amp;#x27;t plug my macbook into a car to use maps or play music. I can&amp;#x27;t use my macbook on the beach to take a picture of my child playing in the surf. I can&amp;#x27;t really use my phone to type out anything shorter than a quick text.&lt;p&gt;(Caveat, for the pedants: yes, I &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; do all those things, but with terrible inconvenience.)</text></item><item><author>jll29</author><text>The key sentence here is:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is the fundamental difference between the Mac (a platform that basically lets developers and users do anything they want) and the iPad (where if Apple doesn’t specifically allow it, it can’t be done).&lt;p&gt;Apple (since Lisa&amp;#x2F;Mac, after Apple II, which had an open architecture) likes appliances and to control the user experience, so the iPad is &amp;quot;more Apple&amp;quot; than Macs are.&lt;p&gt;Whenever I am waiting at airports, I have to grin at how much stuff people are carrying nowadays: it&amp;#x27;s not 2, it&amp;#x27;s 3 full-blown computing devices. First there was the mobile phone (which then just a device to call), then came the laptop, 
then the mobile phone became a computer with the iPhone and Android, and finally, the iPad appeared to fill a middle position. You&amp;#x27;d think depending on the person, they&amp;#x27;d travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical &amp;quot;creatives&amp;quot; or IT&amp;#x2F;technical&amp;#x2F;dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead. That&amp;#x27;s because - as stated in the article - there are known limit, or people are worried that they may need all devices for particular use cases or data kept on them.&lt;p&gt;At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger.&lt;p&gt;I tried working with an iPad (and later iPad Pro) but eventually got back to a Ubuntu Linux laptop (ThinkPad X1 Nano), which at 970 grams is also lighter than my iPad Pro 10&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Parent&amp;#x27;s point still stands as in a decent ecosystem you&amp;#x27;d get down to at most two.&lt;p&gt;For instance a phone and a Surface Pro covers 100% of the use cases, there&amp;#x27;s no gap for a 3rd device. For some this gets down to one device with a Galaxy Fold and DEX.&lt;p&gt;People might have different preferences and&amp;#x2F;or be locked in the Apple ecosystem anyway, but we have working products showing things done differently (&amp;quot;think different&amp;quot; was such a good copy)</text></comment>