Dan

While such a debate is great for writers as they need to write to get 
paid, it is kind of silly.
Most folks who use their devices understand their limitations and pluses; 
and they will use other things if and when needed.
But, on the other hand, most folks use more functions than others and it 
just so happens that web surfing, email, and video/audio 
watching/listening are the most commonly used which i-pads can do 
marvelously.
My sighted wife uses her cellphone and I-pad routinely for these functions 
and turns to her desktop or laptop only when they seem better at doing 
something.
The debate is great for sales and writers, but consumers no longer expect 
every device to do anything and everything.
Rather, what the consumer needs to figure out which devices work better 
for them and not force certain devices to do things when they just can't 
do it effectively.
I love using my Echo Dots but I recognize thatthey do certain things 
beautifully but others not; and voice driven devices generally will have 
greater errors than typing something on a keyboard will. 


On Tue, 27 Jul 2021, Dan TeVelde wrote:

> Hi Harry,
> 
> Thanks for the article. The author makes some good points but I don't completely agree. For one thing a person can do app development using Swift Playgrounds on an iPad. I'm not completely convinced about the issue playing media. Yes people may need to copy their personal data to the cloud and then to an iOS device but more people are giving up on owning physical copies of media stored on storage media. What the author says about not being able to use a mouse on an iPad is incorrect. I don't know what device a person needs but I have seen examples where people are using a mouse. For example, a lighthouse for the blind in Florida provided a mouse-based iPad solution for a client with some vision and cerebral palsy. The person couldn't use a keyboard but could use a mouse with his iPad.
> 
> Microsoft is introducing a new cloud-based version of windows which shows that they know people want to do some kind of computing on any device everywhere. This desktop versus mobile debate has been going on quite a long time but I think the jury is still out.
> 
> Dan
> 
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> Hi all,
> 
> Check out this article.
> 
> https://www.lifewire.com/things-pc-can-do-ipad-cant-1994090
> 
> Let me know what you think of the article.
> 
> Also, you can connect an external hard drive or a flash drive to an iPhone, can't you?
> 
> You can also share documents with an iPhone, can't you?
> 
> Harry
> 
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