This is a myopic take.

I've found iPads to be fantastic presentation tools.

Having an ipad on a conference/convention booth is amazing - airplay my rotating content to a big screen, and when someone walks up I can grab the ipad to delve into details based on the conversation.

Early on (first gen ipad) I had a whole client team nickname me "the ipad guy" because I showed up and presented across a few ipad apps where I could pinch, zoom, and annotate live instead of showing a vanilla PPT file.

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andix 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This might be the only use case in which a Windows tablet is a good option. I've seen some people using Windows tablets with a pen for presentations quite efficiently.

Windows has the benefit that it's still an open-ish OS. If something doesn't work as expected, it can be somehow hacked into the way you need it to be. I think Linux doesn't work well with touch devices and pen input, also the choice of presentation software is much more limited.

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kingkongjaffa 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which apps do you use for this? Keynote or something else?

	▲	tkdb 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, Keynote is (was!) my go to. But it's been years since I've been presenter guy so I may end up with a vibe-presented custom solution if I did it today. I've used and like https://github.com/nyblnet/bento, but more and more I'm just going to self-contained html because the effort in to get what I want is just so low.

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VCFundedGenYer 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fully disagree. iPadOS is too unstable, janky, immature, and prone to awkward half-baked changes to be used as a regular computer. I've tried for years. OP is correct - stay far away from iPadOS for computing. Use macOS.

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Ancapistani 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yep.

iPadOS 27 broke many keyboard use cases for me, including very simple things like using tab to move to the next field on a form in Safari. It worked in iPadOS 26, but doesn’t now.

This adds to the bug where switching between apps with modifier keys tends to cause those modifiers to “stick”. That bug has been there for years, and prevents me from using my iPad as a programming environment even though the software support is there.

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tkdb 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I should clarify: I have never attempted to replace by computer with an ipad. It wouldn't work for me.

Those who I have observed who have done so basically use the ipad for email and writing.

I was responding to "why would anyone use an ipad ever for anything?"

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bigyabai 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This seems to hold true for most people. One of my close friends (a successful founder) was an early adopter of the iPad Pro, and intended to make it his go-to device for traveling. He ended up buying the Magic Keyboard case, a USB-C dongle for HDMI out, and the Apple Pencil to comprise a proper Rube Goldberg travel experience.

After months of suffering through that, he switched back to a Macbook Air and carries the iPad for watching Plex now. I am still baffled as to which "pros" the iPad Pro is targeting.

	▲	tkdb 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have an ipad pro. 90% of the time it's a 3rd monitor for my macbook at my desk. (Very expensive per pixel for that use case!!) It's nice to have for movies on flights. A few times a year I use it as a portable second monitor. I use the stylus for sketching sometimes. Being self-critical, I overpaid for something I thought I would use more. I'm not a fan of and don't use the ipad OS features that basically make it more like a mac desktop.