HACKER Q&A
📣 amrrs

What do you use your iPad for?


I'm still wondering what people use iPad for and if it's really got a use-case. Especially tech community.


  👤 gregjor Accepted Answer ✓
An iPad is a computer with a different UI model and some limitations (and some advantages) when compared to a laptop or desktop computer. The main difference is between iPadOS and Windows, MacOS, Linux.

Reading

Movies and videos

Web browsing

Writing, spreadsheets

Zoom and Google Meets

Games

Online banking

Writing code (remote over ssh)

System admin

Everything I can do with a laptop.


👤 fetus8
I use mine a lot for reading, for work or pleasure. I also almost exclusively edit photos on mine nowadays, as the iPad Pro works incredibly well with direct attached storage or an SD card adapter. Affinity Photo is perfect for the kind of simple editing I like to do.

👤 ksaj
Mostly I use it for reading and watching CBC Gem and YouTube in bed. Actually, that's pretty much the only time.

I've used it for customer presentations, too. But with the pandemic, it's been quite a long time since I've done that.


👤 bartvk
Taking notes (with the Pencil), for both business (keeping notes during meetings) and spare time (sketching home improvement, bad poetry). Reading, although I also have an e-reader. Watching Twitch. Playing music from YouTube while cooking.