The sighted wife has pretty much adopted her 2017 model iPad Pro as a third arm, but she’s a huge consumer of visual media and uses it for businesses purposes as well. The phone thing to her isn’t as important as if she wants to “look” at something, she’ll prefer to do it on the larger screen iPad and not her small SE. The phone she more or less just uses it as an actual phone. Maybe when she’s out and about to scan stuff like ShopKick or other rewards type of apps, but for that, she doesn’t need a huge screen or the latest camera phone.
Whereas I on the other hand would be lost without my iPhone and am most likely going to upgrade to either whatever Apple’s got coming out this year. Be it the new SE if it actually comes out, the new iPhones that usually appear in September or maybe pick up one of last year’s models if I’m not convinced by what’s coming out this year and the price tag. In my case, I’d prefer to allocate my money on a better phone and not bother with a tablet that I’m probably not going to use. Whereas my wife is perfectly happy with her SE and has no desire to upgrade her iPhone any time soon since she’d prefer to have an iPad. I do have a second iPhone for business purposes that I will sometimes use to stream music or baseball while working out or if I’m on the treadmill or as an extra timer or whatnot, but it’s an old beat up 5S and it gets the job done. The few times I’ve borrowed her iPad, I’ve been reminded why I don’t want one. It is so easy to get lost on the screen trying to find something and typing while you think would be easier since the keyboard is larger, it just makes it that much harder to find the key you want to press. That and forget about using it one handed or somewhere where you’re not stationary or sitting down. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:21 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: IPhone versess IPad Remember that having an iPhone, iPad and laptop for most people is overkill. Sure, it is nice to have all this stuff, but I don’t see any need for an iPad in my life, I use my iPhone all the time and the argument that I want phone calls interrupting me or that I want to save my iPhone battery to me at least don’t make sense. If I am listening to an audio book on an iPad and I get a phone call I want to take it interrupts me anyways and in fact if I am listening on the iPad I first have to pause the iPad whereas on my iPhone whatever is playing pauses automatically when the phone rings and resumes again when I’m done. As for battery I just get a new one put in should it gert to the point where it doesn’t hold it’s charge any more, it’s a lot cheaper than spending $500 or more on an Ipad. If I am travelling there isn’t that much I can’t do on my iPhone compared to an iPad. I can see that if you use braille input the large iPad might be good, but if I really want to be able to type a lot I can just bring a bluetooth keyboard and use my iPhone. Some people also make the point about sound quality being bertter on an iPad and that is probably true due to it’s larger speakers which can be further apart, but you can just as easily use a bluetooth speaker if you want good sound quality. This has the added benefit that you can get one that is waterproof so if like me you listen to a lot of audio books you can bring it into the shower or outside etc. I am doing a fair bit of work outside right now getting my garden and yard into shape after a long and very snowy winter and I also do some woodworking either in my shop downstairs or outside and I can just have my iPhone in a safe spot in my belt case or put somewhere nearby and use my very tough dust and waterproof bluetooth speaker. If I am using any woodworking power tools which are noisy I wear ear protection anyways and I have a set of ear protection which have bluetooth as wel as a built-in FM radio so I can listen to the radio or my book or music on my iPhone. If you buy an iPad it’s another expensive device which you have to maintain and upgrade every 3 to 5 years, it won’t replace your iPhone so now you have to maintain and upgrade two devices. I also have an Apple Watch which I like because of the fitness/health application and to me that is more useful than an iPad and as it’s a piece of technology which also has a finite time before it needs to be upgraded, if you now have an iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch then things are starting to get really expensive. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of Ralph Supernaw Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 7:34 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: IPhone versess IPad Hi, In what situations does an IPad have advantages over an IPone or a laptop computer? Thanks. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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