• KlavKalashj@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    As a musician, these gigantic screens are great for reading music. Though Apple is the golden standard in the business.

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    6 hours ago

    Nowadays some college students get tablets with keyboards instead of getting a laptop. They are not cheaper either, at least not that much.

    Using a tablet as a main workstation is a torture. Also you can use the laptop for 10 years easily. A tablet? Maybe 5 years.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      Using a tablet as a main workstation is a torture.

      It is only torture if you know how to use other alternatives. I think people discount the education and experience that previous generations had in learning to use laptop computers.

      Some college level CS programs have had to include modules on what a computer file and folder are. iOS was designed to be so simple that a baby can use it and those babies are adults.

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      4 hours ago

      The first iPad pro got 11 years of updates and support. There aren’t android equivalents to that.

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        Yeah, you only get that kind of support only if you install a custom ROM and a lot of Andoid tablets especially cheaper and regional ones don’t have that option. They don’t even get a version update most of the time.

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      Every single person I know in university (except the people using paper) has an iPad. I have never seen someone with an Android tablet.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    Funny how the headline goes:

    “are they for you?”

    while in the actual article the author only explores:

    “are they for me?”

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    What do they mean with “are back”? Never stopped using tablets since Nexus 7/Nook with CyanogenMod.

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      over the past few years, Android tablets have had a renaissance. New form factors, big releases from a variety of brands, and flagship-tier devices left and right