Well, that tracks.

I don't try to do any sort of "productive" work on iPhone/iPad because I simply don't know how to. Very simple file operations are often so unnecessarily complicated.

Exactly why I don't have an iPad. I would like one, but iOS isn't a serious operating system.

Instead of a Macbook with touch, I want an iPad with MacOS, for the situation where I want to watch movies on the go, but also get serious work done every once in a while.

It doesn't seem the iPad fault this time. On a normal iPad a tap on a ppt file will open PowerPoint, and that's it.

The one use case I have for an iPad is the pencil for screen sharing / white boarding on zoom, although my chicken scratch writing may not come across well. I don't think it would work for me on a laptop screen either, I need it sitting flat to draw diagrams or overlays.

Does not track, isn’t true. Click a file in Files or an attachment in email and the relevant app opens. No complication.

The example in this story is to do with other cruft that schools have installed.

I remember bashing out papers on my iPod Touch while I rode the bus to school, then emailing them to my student address and printing them out in the library. For a master procrastinator, it felt like the future.

Getting a keyboard and touchpad case setup totally changed my view on them for productivity. As a primary driver I'd still opt for a laptop but they work great when traveling.