Agreed with @HobbyCollector, gotta push back on this post by @RunningBoris. His assertion that the iPad is just a scaled up iPhone ignores the details of the evolution of iPadOS. It comes off to me as either disingenuous or as ignorance of the changes made or a refusal to acknowledge the importance of those changes in the experience of using an iPad.
Really, it’s just silly to make a statement like that because it’s a denial of the actual facts that can be pointed to. Which is to say, there is a very long list of new features that have been added to iPadOS. Now, you can pretend they were not added. Or, you can claim they are somehow not sufficient or did not come soon enough for your liking or add some other caveat based on some personal opinion but this does not change the facts.
But in the real world, out here where people use the iPad, there is a different reality from your assertion that the iPad is just a big iPhone.
There’s a long and always growing list of very advanced, “desktop” quality apps , that you might want to pretend don’t exist but they do. And the list is getting longer and the apps are getting better.
This does not mean that iPadOS is perfect. Of course it’s not. But to look at apps like DaVinci Resolve, LumaFusion and Final Cut Pro and dismiss them as irrelevant because they may not, in some cases, be at 100% feature parity is just silly. And yes, the lack of background exporting is a limitation of iPadOS but that does not negate the existence or usefulness of the app.
I’ve written here and elsewhere many times about using apps like Affinity Publisher or the other Affinity apps. These are full “pro” apps on par with Adobe apps like Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. The fact that I can use Publisher while referencing content in Files and 3 - 5 other apps between the iPad screen and an external monitor to design and layout complex annual reports or newsletters is an obvious multitasking workflow that negates your assertions.
Will it work for everyone? Of course not. No matter what operating system someone chooses there are always going to be personal preferences that come into play. Be it Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPadOS, etc, there are workflows and apps that are not available across them all, that’s the way it goes. Or, it may be that there are simply differences. A Mac user likely would not enjoy aspects Windows, say, the Windows File Browser. Does that mean it’s broken? Does it mean that it can’t be used? Of course not. A Windows user might find aspects of macOS confusing or difficult but again, that likely says more about what they are used to and prefer.
The quality of the discussion would be improved and would be more interesting if people were not stuck in their preconceived ideas about what’s possible with any particular tool, app or OS.
