I was all in on GarageBand on my 2013 ipad Air, but finally was convinced to upgrade to a new M1 iPad Pro.
I'm pretty upset about it.
Garage Band is essentially abandonware at this point and things that used to work (like coreUSB midi) don't work anymore. Like, they broke it and don't care about fixing it.
They'd rather I was using Logic, which doesn't have an ipad version (it has a nice controller app which is not the same thing).
The app store is a joke, full of scammy ad supported junk. It used to have lots of very expensive (but extremely usable) apps. Now its a wasteland.
I tried some of the DAWs and music production stuff and it all feels like windows 98 BS.
I've switched to an old mac book and have given up on the pad as a moble production rig.
SmartStrings on the iPad is a magical instrument. My brother recorded, produced, and mixed two whole albums on his iPhone while it effortlessly drummed along to his playing. What happened to the momentum that was there for iOS to be a useful professional production tool?
Lol, and forget using that fancy M1 to compile anything ever 'cause iPadders arent allowed to use xCode.
I’m a physics PhD student working full time as a data scientist and although it’s possible to do all my work with an iPad (set up servers I SSH to), if I have to work on something that will take more than 30 minutes, I’d rather use my laptop.
I’ve stopped trying to go on a full iPad workflow but embrace the iPad for what it is: not a laptop replacement but more of an add-on.
PS did my best not to use the word “computer” for this comment.
I’m curious if you don’t run any workloads locally and only do something like Google Colab, remote IDE and remote JN why after 30min would you have to switch? iPad pros have keyboard support and mouse support.
Good question that actually made me reflect a bit.
To put it short it’s primarily just personal preference (mostly hardware) and hard to shake tendencies.
I’m still on the older 10.5” iPad Pro (when this breaks I’m definitely upgrading) and the keyboard is okay but I prefer a mechanical keyboard if I type more. I’ve tried connecting a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard to it but I don’t like the added layer of setting things up.
Also the moment I’m working on something for a longer period, the higher the chance that I’m opening up different references etc. and juggling multiple things is easier when not on iOS.
Btw thank you. Your question really made me think and when I switch devices next time I’ll probably ask myself why I’m doing it and not just because I feel like it.
The keyboard and trackpad's just a bit better integrated on the Macbook Pro, and the extra 4 inches (10" vs 14") of screen real estate, along with the overlapping window manager make it just that bit easier to use. It's a many papercuts scenario - there's not really one singular thing to point as why the macbook pro is better that the iPad doesn't have a function equivalent, but at the end of the day, it's just more comfortable to work from for extended periods. Throw in a desktop setup (full-size monitor and keyboard+mouse) and the iPad's only good for short bouts as a 3rd screen. A really good one, but still.
The iPad just isn't a good computing device if you start processing files in any way. Web browsing isn't that great either since ad blockers don't match those on MacOS browsers.
I travel by motorcycle a lot, and though luggage space is scarce, I still pack my laptop with me. My iPad is a great reader and drawing tablet, but it's not a work machine.
I've tried a Surface tablet too, but it was terrible as a tablet and as a computer.
> So, I ordered a new 14-inch MacBook Pro — Space Gray
Apple M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine; 32GB unified memory; 1TB SSD storage
> So that I can more swiftly and comfortably type documents and spreadsheets, format blog posts, and maybe do a tiny bit of Photoshoppin’ here and there when I need to.
This is complete overkill for their usage... I got a new MBA M1 with 16GB RAM that can do all of that and much more. Currently using it as my photo (Capture One/Photoshop) and video editor (Premiere/Final Cut), programming workstation for my personal projects, my music producing machine, etc.
I simply cannot trust the writer, they complain about simple issues and their solution is to go completely overkill on a purchase, feels like just consumerism.
More so, 3 FullHD screens (!) of text could be replaced with:
"Couldn't work on iPad because couldn't find a comfortable position after my injury, reverted to using a laptop"
It's even fits in the current %MAX_TWEET_LENGTH% (and probably could fit in 140 with some work). Okay, okay, you couldn't fit it in 140 chars if you add "and iPad versions of apps I use sucks d....". Or..?
"Ditched iPad for laptop: apps suck, can't sit comfortably after injury": 72 chars.
Between this type of posts (KBytes of nonsense spread with "responsive design" over multiple screens even though I'm clearly on a desktop with FHD monitor in the landscape orientation) and 30+ tweet series (eg Foone) I hate both.
"I didn't want to learn any new ways of working so I bought the same computer as I had before." is a perfectly reasonable point of view but it doesn't really need a blog post.
I'm pretty upset about it.
Garage Band is essentially abandonware at this point and things that used to work (like coreUSB midi) don't work anymore. Like, they broke it and don't care about fixing it.
They'd rather I was using Logic, which doesn't have an ipad version (it has a nice controller app which is not the same thing).
The app store is a joke, full of scammy ad supported junk. It used to have lots of very expensive (but extremely usable) apps. Now its a wasteland.
I tried some of the DAWs and music production stuff and it all feels like windows 98 BS.
I've switched to an old mac book and have given up on the pad as a moble production rig.
SmartStrings on the iPad is a magical instrument. My brother recorded, produced, and mixed two whole albums on his iPhone while it effortlessly drummed along to his playing. What happened to the momentum that was there for iOS to be a useful professional production tool?
Lol, and forget using that fancy M1 to compile anything ever 'cause iPadders arent allowed to use xCode.