Keyboard commands are the main reason I prefer Mac (or Windows) to a mobile-only solution. Yes, iOS is getting them solely, but they aren't there yet, at all. Even then, some are iPad-specific, so thinking of an iPhone or iPod as the primary doesn't work. On my Mac, right now, I could hit cmd-tab once or twice to get to my Twitter app, arrow along since focus is still on the table of tweets, and cmd-shift-v on a tweet I want to retweet. From Mail on iOS, I'd have to either go to the Home screen or the App Switcher, find Tweetings, double tap it, wait for it to be ready, find the tweets list and hope it saved my place, then find a tweet I want to retweet and flick down twice, double tap, flick right once, double tap. Doable, of course, but not as efficient.
Then there are the apps you just can't get on iOS. Audio editing was mentioned; I have never gotten the exact control over blocking off parts of audio that I get on a computer. There's no substitute for hitting a key right when you want; double tapping takes time, then there's the pause while iOS waits to see if this is a triple tap, then the command is sent. There's also Xcode, which is not a concern for most, but it is for me. It all comes down to efficiency. Can I do a lot on iOS? Yes. Can I do more, faster, on iOS with a bluetooth keyboard? Yes. Can I do still more, far more efficiently, on a computer? Yes, at least for now. Are there things OS X can do that iOS just can't? Oh yes, there are! Obviously, this is one guy's opinion, and everyone has different requirements and wants. It's really a personal choice, and no one can tell you what's best for you except you. > On Nov 27, 2015, at 8:21 PM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: > > No, I love my mac. I'll be hartbroken when it dies. It's just that between > my ipod and my android, there's really nothing short of the convenience of > having done things a certain way for years to justify a new macbook. Which > is pretty slim justification if you think about it. > > I've got a cloud storage that I built myself which can support up to 24 tb of > files. All of my CD'as are on drive now and packed away in boxes because I > have no room to display them. I can email and browse on both of my mobiles. > I can torrent on my droid. I haven't OCR'ed on my mac for about two years > now because it's so easy on the ipod, and with knfb now on droid, I've got a > good solution there too. Microsoft is putting most of it's accessibility > efforts into office mobile right now, and it shows. Add in the microsoft > unified codebase, and I'm actually excited about the possibilities for word > processing on mobile devices. Then there are highly robust databasing apps > for mobile. Plus with the array of accessories available such as scanning > stands, bar code readers, and daily living kit. Add in the intergration of > audiobook and music delivery services and I can honestly say I haven't even > missed my mp3 player in a year and a half though I still carry it with me for > some reason. > > I'll miss audio editing as right now there's no way to get my edirol m16DX to > interface with either a droid or an I device that I know of. For that > reason, I'm hoping my mac hangs around a couple of ears until I come up with > something I'm happy with for mid range field recording and studio work. > Again, It's been a couple of years since I've really had my hand in there > anyway, I just want the option since I have all the equipment anyhow. > I'll also miss mess, since mess for droid hasn't really gotten the attention > I'd like to see put into it. I waited for 8 years to have something like > mess for mac and now that I can play my classic apple IIe games I'll be sad > to let that go. I do have an accessible frotz for android though, so I can > still access text adventures. > > If my mac dies, I'll want one of two great portable keyboards that are on the > market right now. Or, if I decide to go tablet for some reason then I > wouldn't be without a keyboard foleo case. > > If my mbp kicked the bucket tomorrow, it would cost me between $1100 and > $1300 outright to replace it. Where-as, my $200 moto g is two years old now, > and my ipod is three and I could limp along in sprightly manner with that if > I had to. But I could spend $700 on the mightiest android known to man > unlocked and carrier ready, and $300 on the new ipod touch wich is just a > thuroughly awsome piece of kit, and still have $300 left over to spend on > accessories. As long as I have a current back up of all my notes and things > in the cloud when my mbp goes, I won't even skip a beat. > > Most of my people these days are fully mobile either via ipad or a phone of > some kind and don't own a computer of any kind. My parents computer died > last year and my mom replaced it with a $100 android tablet that does > absolutely everything she wants to do including run her small business, print > patterns, track recipes, advertize on facebook and more. > > Mobile computing is better in every way. Mobiles are cheaper to build, > cheaper to package, cheaper to store, cheaper to ship, and cheaper to buy. > They're faster and more efficient for day to day computing than desktops > which have more power still but always take longer to do even the simplest > thing such as launch a program. Mobiles have better battery as you would > expect. They generate less material waste and have more recyclable > components, especially when you ad in the vast reduction in cable clutter. > > Even though I'm not really happy with the stability and performance of the > last couple of IOS, I'd still take that over the atrocity of elcapitan from > what I've read and yes, windows 10 is a lot more user friendly than windows > 8, but don't make me laugh. > > so again, I'm not holding my breath til my macbook dies, but I'm ready for > when it goes and I won't be replacing it with another macbook. > > Enjoy, > > Erik Burggraaf > > >> On Nov 27, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com >> <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Why would you be on your last macbook? 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