Comment by swiftcoder
14 days ago
> In which category are there better iOS apps?
Almost all of the prosumer apps on iOS offer a consistently better experience. This is maybe less relevant on phones than on tablets, but music production, video editing, digital painting and drafting, etc...
That isn't saying much. Even the best possible music editing (etc) app on a tablet is still crappy, by virtue of the form factor. Tablets simply are not suitable for getting actual work done.
While I can't speak to the editing side of things, the live music apps for ios are exceptional. My dad is a musician and I'm a sound engineer. The sheer number and quality of the apps dwarfs the android offerings.
This is changing with iPadOS, but the market needs to catch up with that. It supports a mouse and keyboard really really well now
> the market needs to catch up with that
By that token, touchscreen laptops will replace the iPad any day now.
I think the preeminent issue is that touch-native UIs are very imprecise and clunky by nature. The iPad makes a great MIDI controller; it's an awful mixer or plugin host compared to a regular laptop running regular PC plugins. Buying a mouse or keyboard won't port Omnisphere or the U-He plugins to iPad. I doubt the market will ever "catch up" in that regard.
> Almost all of the prosumer apps on iOS offer a consistently better experience
So for people who don't want to use computers. I cannot work with a tablet or phone. I need a computer.
I mean, as someone who is mainly a programmer, same. But high-end cameras, big touchscreens, and an excellent pencil input is sort of the optimal device for a whole bunch of creative tasks
Are the cameras "high-end"? Good for a phone, certainly. But compared to a real camera with a much bigger lens and sensor?
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I own a galaxy tab s7 fe and I'm quite happy with it to be honest.
Not sure what I'd want more from an iPad.
It is true that it has slightly more apps, but realistically all I need is there.
Seems super biased comming by someone called SWIFTcoder.
Hah. Username pre-dates the programming language by more than a decade
The iOS prosumer apps are, frankly, pathetic. I produce music and every single DAW/plugin on iPad is very clearly a "lite" version of something that would run better on a full-featured OS. There's really no workflow I can imagine that doesn't entail using a real PC for basic mixing and arrangement.
> I produce music and every single DAW/plugin on iPad is very clearly a "lite" version of something...
I agree in several cases, but the question here wasn't "are they better than PC equivalents", it was "are they better than what's available on Android"