“Over the last few months, I’ve been using a 12.9-inch iPad Pro as my main mobile computer. Although I have Mac and Windows desktops at the two “fixed” locations i work from, I’ve been using the larger iPad Pro with a Smart Keyboard as my traveller. And, for the most part, it has worked really well,” Anthony Caruana writes for LifeHacker. “But a couple of limitations have really started to get to me recently.”
“As portable computers go, the larger iPad Pro is competent – at least for my purposes,” Caruana writes. “But it’s a real pain in the butt when I’m working offline.”
“For example, I edit a newsletter for one of my corporate clients. Each issue has about ten pieces of content. I store each of those pieces in its own folder in OneDrive,” Caruana writes. “If I use a traditional computer, I can access that folder when offline as the contents sync in real time. But on the iPad, I can only access those files if I plan ahead and make the contents of those folders available offline.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Blaming Apple for Microsoft’s OneDrive limitations is nonsensical.
Here’s a hint: Get a clue and use a different cloud storage service that syncs.
Use dropbox and quit yer whining, and if you’re going to be on the road, make sure you have the iPad with cellular capability or learn to tether your phone.
I do it all the time no problem.
Sorry friend. Nothing beats local storage. Nothing!
Cloud is wasteful, slow, and unreliable. Would you keep a HD that behaved like it?
What the cloud is good for is syncing.
The OneDrive IS an issue for those of us who want to use it for corporate work where the OneDrive for Business is the only place that confidential info can be stored and it cannot go to dropbox or other locations. Do not dismiss this group of users.
Personally, I do not have an issue with OneDrive on mine and everything is pretty smooth for me. It cannot be my main work machine as there are things it’s can’t do in the corp environment I’m in right now. BUT, it can do 90% and I use it as my main machine quite a lot…then just jump the MBP when needed for more power/screen Realestate (with external monitor) or to run Parallels.
It’s not a matter of dismissing them. Employers who choose OneDrive probably do so for a good reason that has nothing to do with optimizing employee productivity. The point is not that these employees shouldn’t be important to Apple. But you can’t blame Apple for Microsoft’s design decisions or incompetence.
Teach their own at the same point of this article it is imagined that the author has used an iPad on other levels before Given that assessment it would also be believe that this author possible used an iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard in a similar functional form that can be achieved on an iPad Pro typing With regard to those features it should not of been a surprise in the first place to the complaint you merit with an iPad Pro. It just seems to me that if you knew you would have these issues in the first place being an iPad user in the past why would you bitch about it now and allow yourself to be caught up in issues and just use your MacBook instead ? Do you want to give up your iPad go right ahead but it is a very functional device besides productivity alone if you did not f do you want to give up your iPad go right ahead but it is a very functional device besides productivity alarm if you did not feed fit your needs that’s fine but at the same time don’t waste other people’s time hearing about you gripe
The only problem I’ve seen with the 12.9″ iPad Pro is that it is the 1st generation product and Apple has been slow to update/upgrade. When the second gen model comes out I’ll be all over it.
Same here. I never buy a gen 1 product.
What about iCloud Drive? Does it work?
Not well
So he get’s a mobile device to do work when away from his office and doesn’t get the option for the cell version. Apparently he doesn’t have a mobile hotspot for his phone either. Then he complains about not being able to work offline. He could not even have that option with a MS machine. So how is this a problem with the iPad. It is an easy problem to solve.
I have written several times before that an iPad is not a good tool for pro writing. It is great for a lot of jobs that a laptop sucks at. The iPad has the potential to bring computers to jobs that have not been able to use them before. However writers don’t understand those job, and don’t try. They just look at a device for their use and that’s it. Lazy at best. The MacBook is much better for pro writers. This is another person who should not be paid to write tech reviews. If your going to be in the press than get off your ass and investigate. Just writing about what you do is blogging.
just reading his work needs why is he using an iPad?
I think pros like artists (who need to sketch) or architects who are heading to a work site to show plans to the foreman, guys walking taking inventory on the shop floor, or managers reviewing tons of reports etc might need an iPad
but typing articles are best served with a MBP.
It’s not that the iPad is useless as a work tool, just depends on what you are doing. use the right tool.
For my kind of work which needs a complex file system (hint to Apple.. ) , I know my 12.9 iPad ain’t going to cut it. Use my Mac Pro instead.
(my belief is that right now with limitations of iOS most complex tasks should be done on Macs. Note also there are ways to Sync iPad Pros to Macs to make them like Wacom tablets if people need that option )
No. I am one of said artists. The small screen, the lack of precise input (a stylus is inferior yo a pointer in many cases) and the limitations of hardware make it a non-starter. For mockups and presentation it’s fine, but all work needs to be moved to some kind of work station at some point in the process. The crazy thing is, add everything that’s lacking and you pretty much have a desktop, though most people in these scenarios will still want more power. Additionally, sorry, iOS is not a pro level OS, as amazing as it is, and I honestly fon’t know that it could be for this audience they are trying to woo with iPad Pros by its very nature. The problem with the tablet philosophy and vision is that in reinventing the personal computer, they have created . . . the personal computer. It’s not that the iPad, surface etc. are junk, but they aren’t modular, we are *just not there yet*, and probably won’t be for awhile longer. Silicon Valley, even Apple, really need to stop putting the cart before the (work)horse.
Sorry for typos!
There are always niggles when using an iPad for tough stuff. It’s a shame, because there is no need for it really. This case might not be Apple’s fault, but there are dozens of cases that are their fault.