“When I received my new 9.7” iPad Pro I decided to break tablet tradition and personalize it with stickers, just as I’ve done on laptops (and my Surfaces) for years. I did so because I began with the mindset that this iPad would replace my laptop(s) for full time use (here laptop means my Surface(s), Yoga, MacBook, and desktops). It has been almost a month and that is exactly what happened,” Steven Sinofsky blogs for Learning by Shipping. “My sticker investment paid off. I don’t feel like I’m forcing myself into this mode of working, but rather I am more productive, futz way less with my ‘computer,’ and find many things easier. Work is different, but better.”
“Unlike many ‘use a product for month’ tests this is not an experiment” Sinofsk writes. “For me this is a deeply held belief that the rise of smartphones (specifically starting when the iPhone launched) would have a profound impact on the way we all use ‘computers.'”
“What kind of productivity did I do? I did everything I do on a laptop and more” Sinofsk writes. “Because of what I do now, I’m often at the receiving end of work products from a lot of people and I don’t get to pick the tools I use — entrepreneurs send documents in any number of formats (Keynote, PDF, Docs, Sheets, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more), tools for document signing/viewing/securing, information products that have sites or apps, all of the cloud storage products, line of business tools, and so on. I also do a lot of work in initiating creation across all sorts of data types (structured, words, images, video). I communicate a lot across a dozen or more different tools. I write a lot of long posts. I do a lot of email. I make and consume spreadsheets. I create and deliver presentations. I use line of business services. I do a lot of things with data. I use the web a lot. In short, I use a lot of different software to do a lot of different stuff.”
Sinofsk writes, “I have not yet experienced something where I had to go back to my laptop.”
Tons more in the full article — very highly recommended (which is a first for something on which Sinofsky has worked. :wink:) — here.
MacDailyNews Take: Think Different™.
The iPad Pro is not meant for older generations. Unless they are willing to completely unlearn and let go of old tricks and learn new ones. That’s very tough to do for some. Those are the people who ask questions like “Where my physical trackpad to go with my physical keyboard?”, “Is it a sketch pad?”, “Is it a laptop replacement?” iPad Pro and iOS are really for the young and for future generations. It is the future. Until the next paradigm shift, perhaps decades away, Multi-touch will be how most people compute, not with physical keyboards, mice, cursors, exposed file systems, etc.
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[Attribution: The Loop. Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” “Dan K.,” and “Arline M” for the heads up.]