Beyond the Tablet: Seven Years of iPad as My Main Computer ➹

I’m largely on the same boat – I’m actually typing, capturing and posting this from my iPad mini 4, and I still rate it as my “most personal computer” and the one I rely on for everything except development and cloud work (although I keep trying to make do on it).

For that, alas (which is a very big part of my life), remoting through various means and Safari for iOS (which is a pain to use with any management portal, on any cloud) are simply not good enough yet, and I’ve been eyeing the Surface Go enviously, because it is about the same price and lets me run Docker and everything I need without serious compromises…

That is Apple’s Achilles heel, and even though I fully get that they prioritize creative professionals, I wonder how big (and influential) a market they are missing out on.

I just hope they eventually do justice to the iPad hardware with a powerful enough rendition of iOS—right now, it’s just too limited to meet expectations—and not just mine.