You'd think depending on the person, they'd travel with
EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop
You're missing a few major scenarios.
- The iPad works as a second monitor for a Mac laptop. Great for creative/tech people.
- If people are traveling for work, they are bringing their work laptop which may have corporate lockdown/spyware software installed. Therefore using their work laptop for entertainment might not be possible or optimal. (Not to be crass, but: watching porn in a hotel room is a pretty common use case)
I'd prefer to travel lighter (and I do when possible) but I don't find iPad+Macbook to be an onerous load for a airplane carry-on bag. Although, a smaller person or somebody with an injury or disability might feel differently.
At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger.
> The iPad works as a second monitor for a Mac laptop. Great for creative/tech people.
You need to be logged into the same Apple ID, which is a huge hassle for everybody who has a different Apple ID for personal and work use.
There’s tonnes of Apple features that break because of this. Apple’s view is that there’s a 1:1 correspondence between Apple IDs and people, and everything they do is designed around that fact.
> At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger.
I have a MacBook Pro, an iPhone, an Android phone, an Apple Watch, an iPad, and AirPods Pro; so I have fairly demanding charging needs.
I have the MagSafe Duo Charger and a Minix Neo P3 to plug into the wall. I have a lightning cable to plug the Duo Charger into the Minix. From there, the Duo Charger can charge both phones, the watch, and the AirPods. I have a USB-C cable I can use to charge the laptop and the iPad from the Neo P3. Obviously I can’t charge absolutely everything simultaneously, but I never need to because most of the batteries last days and I don’t use all the devices simultaneously anyway.
So all of those devices but I just need a wall charger, a Duo and two cables. The “oh no, everything is so complex because Apple refuses to use USB-C” hand wringing is massively overblown. Does it really matter that my iPhone, my AirPods, and my watch don’t have USB-C when all I do to charge them is put them down on a pad when I’m not using them? Sure, my Android phone has a USB-C port, but I charge my iPhone and my Android phone the same way – by putting them down on a pad. What is the EU forcing Apple to add a USB-C port on the iPhone actually achieving for me if I never use the Lightning port on the current models?
> There’s tonnes of Apple features that break because of this. Apple’s view is that there’s a 1:1 correspondence between Apple IDs and people, and everything they do is designed around that fact.
Ugh, yeah. Good point. Never had a company that made me have a separate AppleID so I didn't think of it.
It would, of course, be a non-issue if Apple allowed multiple users on iPad :-/
> The “oh no, everything is so complex because Apple refuses to use USB-C” hand wringing is massively overblown.
Yeah. It exclusively comes from non-Apple owners. They never seem to notice that it's not a big deal for people actually living it.
- The iPad works as a second monitor for a Mac laptop. Great for creative/tech people.
- If people are traveling for work, they are bringing their work laptop which may have corporate lockdown/spyware software installed. Therefore using their work laptop for entertainment might not be possible or optimal. (Not to be crass, but: watching porn in a hotel room is a pretty common use case)
I'd prefer to travel lighter (and I do when possible) but I don't find iPad+Macbook to be an onerous load for a airplane carry-on bag. Although, a smaller person or somebody with an injury or disability might feel differently.
But, they already can? You do need a separate cable for the iPhone of course, which is annoying. https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Four-Port-Charger-USB-C-...