The iPad is a bad computer that’s too hard to use
It’s time to stop pretending the iPad is a real computer. This may come as a surprise from someone who makes YouTube videos about iPad productivity, but I have reached the end of my rope.
After the wild, emotional rollercoaster that was 2020, I was looking forward to a quiet December. I wanted to catch up on my shows, get some rest and mentally prepare for whatever 2021 has in store for us. Instead of a peaceful break, the past two weeks have been some of the busiest of my entire year. At work, briefs rained down from all corners of the company and clients I occasionally freelance for came out of the woodwork asking for more designs than ever. To accommodate this influx of work, I was at my computer from 08.30 to 23.00 most days, which is a rather gruelling schedule taking the complexity of the projects into account.
But as hard as I had to work over the past two weeks, I could always rely on my iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard… to sit on my desk and gather dust.
When it comes to work, real work, the kind of work where you need to move files around and have more than two things open on the screen at the same time, you simply cannot rely on the iPad.
For literally anything.
Why? Let’s take a deep dive into…
