Calling out excel, photoshop, and text editors (I’m assuming coding)… those are all computationally expensive tasks.
My mom runs her entire business off of her iPhone and iPad. I’d say that she’s doing “real work”. She just doesn’t need a discrete GPU.
My sister is in a similar boat with her business.
There are definitely certain classes of work that lend themselves to larger screens and an actively-cooled chassis. But many people don’t need the extras and are quite happy with the “mobile experience“. It’s just a different market. They love the updates coming down the pipe.
I was taken by TDD for about six months, years ago. I always felt that I was never good at it because edge cases I hadn’t thought of came up or the interface wasn’t actually the best/cleanest/most maintainable way to write that code.
But it got me thinking about testing while writing the class instead of shoehorning a class into a test just before the PR went up. That’s what I think my takeaway was. To this day I think about not just how clean/maintainable the code is, but also how testable the code is while I am writing it. It really helps keep monkeypatching and mocking down.
> there's no way to say "I know what I'm doing when I'm in this area"
Apple Maps (at least in CarPlay) has a "tap for ETA" feature. It collapses the navigation block and only leaves the blue (yellow, red) line on the map and an estimated ETA at the bottom.
I use this daily during my commute where I passively want to know if there's some traffic up ahead, but don't need help to know where I am going.
It's not automatic (e.g. Geo-fence setting), but it is just one tap.
My mom runs her entire business off of her iPhone and iPad. I’d say that she’s doing “real work”. She just doesn’t need a discrete GPU.
My sister is in a similar boat with her business.
There are definitely certain classes of work that lend themselves to larger screens and an actively-cooled chassis. But many people don’t need the extras and are quite happy with the “mobile experience“. It’s just a different market. They love the updates coming down the pipe.