Apple picker Jan Kučerík, with whom we currently collaborate on the series about deploying Apple products in companies, decided to try to fully use the iPad Pro for a week to test what iOS still limits it and whether he still needs a Mac for his work, because the topic of delegating many activities to iPads is a problem that many users are dealing with today.
He took detailed notes of his experiment every day, which he you can read on his blog, in which he reports on what the iPad Pro is good for and what not, and below we bring you a big final summary, in which Honza describes what it actually means when you, as a manager, work exclusively with the iPad Pro or iOS.
Po a working week full of experiences and experiences working "only" on iOS I will try to provide an impartial evaluation of my experience. I am deliberately writing impartially, because on the one hand I am not an Apple employee and above all I want to be honest with myself and be able to answer for myself if it is really possible.
For the first time all week, I'm going to use the line you probably hear every night on the TV news from our legislators: "We think it can be done!" And now, seriously. It depends on which Jan Kučeřík you ask the question "Can you only work on iOS?" First I will tune you to my frequency so I can continue.
My work is not only commercial and technical, but I also deal with the architecture of the development of solutions and their feasibility in several sectors - corporate environment, education, medicine. Atypical of my work is that I first design something completely new, look for the necessary tools, complete the solution, then sell it and then provide technical support.
After the initial response, everything starts to follow the rules you would expect in any company. Cooperation with colleagues, companies, service centers, marketing agencies, etc. Only when I reach a functional result, the whole project receives a staff culture with assigned processes. It might seem like a one-man show, but it's far from that. I need my colleagues and co-workers to make everything work as it should. You simply cannot do a quality project without quality people, and above all, you cannot ensure the sustainability of such a project without them.
So if you ask me as Jan Kučeřík – a businessman, project manager and administrative worker – I can tell you with a clear conscience that "yes, as a businessman I can only get by with an iPad Pro and an iPhone". In order to support this answer not only by stating, I will describe a scenario that I undergo every day in the role of manager and trader.
Planning made easy
I may disappoint you, but I have deleted all GTD smart apps from my devices including sophisticated email clients, to-do lists, automated cosmic calendars and overkill apps. I found that my "GTD Kung-Fu" has a big crack. Application for application, table for table, export data to other data. In essence, I was an analytical factory for Big data, which I no longer knew how to analyze.
I had everything everywhere, one application after another, and finally lost track of which "grab" to use for what I needed. Everything went away and I was left with the good old default Calendar, the even better and underappreciated Reminders, the perfectly adequate Notes and, for simplicity and usability with MDM, also native Mail - everything that iOS basically offers. I built my own and for me bulletproof GTD on these basic and simple applications, which I only adapted to my needs and habits.
I won't stress for long. Complete meeting schedules, reminders, e-mails and notes will be provided by me as a merchant only on iOS devices in a combination of iPhone and iPad.
Management tools at rest in iOS
Another variable for the marketer and manager can be CRM. We use it in the company a solution from Raynet and for our purposes, and above all usability on iOS devices, absolutely sufficient. For us, what cannot be used in iOS basically does not exist. It's the same as my GTD apps. I learned to simplify. The simpler the output, the more understandable.
What I still consider unfinished in Raynet is the way of entering information into my calendar in iOS, where I am used to having exactly defined before each meeting, how long I will get there and when I have to leave. I don't want to look at my phone, I want my phone to notify me when it's time to go. Raynet can't do that yet. The second detail, when I click on the map of a contact in CRM in iOS, Google Maps opens. But somehow I already learned with those from Apple.
I don't know about you, but we also had a CRM and I know how hard it is to make a change, but if you don't make it and want to patch old and broken things, you end up with a patched company with patched products. Subsequently, you yourself will offer the patched solution to your clients. That's just the way it is.
So, as a salesperson, I deal with CRM on iOS, and even more so with the help of dictation. I don't like to write, and when I leave a meeting, I want to have a record in the system right away. So why not talk it directly into the CRM on the iPhone. I don't need to hang out in the office or coffee shops for it. Everything is in the system now.
Documents and creatively
A manager, a businessman cannot do without documents, their sharing, filling out forms and generally working with digital paper. If I were a banker or a company that works with macros (then there are still those who think they need to work with macros), then I'm out of luck. You can't put this on iOS. Fortunately, this is not my case. Again, in my quest for simplicity, I just need Word, Excel, PDF and that's it. We use Office365, Adobe Acrobat Reader, PDF Expert and other basic applications. Personally, I have no problem working with these tools only on iOS. I always work in a combination of iPad with Smart Keyboard and dictation. In many ways I am faster and more efficient than on a Mac.
My creativity is a separate chapter in the documents. A lot of projects, ideas, insights are created in the application OneNote. I can't imagine how I would create ideas in it on a Mac. Personally, I need not only a keyboard, but also a pen to create something interesting. Try to write sometimes and then draw, make sketches. Suddenly you find that your brain works completely differently.
In Word, I often open the text I'm going to edit, and I don't start by finding a line and start rewriting the text, but I take the Apple Pencil and start highlighting, arrowing, painting, crossing out. Only when I'm done with the sketches do I start editing the text. By picking up a pen and not just writing texts, you activate the left hemisphere (that is, in the case of a right-handed person) and after a few such "sessions" miracles begin to happen.
At least for me, I'm starting to really see a change for the better and I have more control over what I'm doing and I'm creating meaningful things. iPad Pro with Apple Pencil is a kind of muse for me that works completely automatically. I can already hear some reading this and calling themselves OneNote? After all, there are many better applications out there. You will certainly be right, but OneNote is again a simple and mainly functional thing for me. Plus it's free.
There are never enough cloud solutions
You then need to continue working with the documents. You have to save them somewhere maybe sign them and then share them. We use several cloud services. We would be fine with one, but the others serve as a test interface for references and case studies in our workshops and trainings.
When it comes to cloud storage for documents, there are a number of them. The most famous Box.com, Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud, and Disk also have so-called on-the-fly data encryption. In the case of iCloud, this is my first complaint against Apple because the service is not suitable for business use as a whole. It's invaluable for device backups, but has significant limitations for business use. Otherwise, the features of the services are almost similar.
You'll notice the biggest difference with Box.com for business use. This is a truly professional solution, for which you will, however, have to pay extra. If we want to solve the security of a folder in the company beyond the scope of cloud services, we use nCryptedcloud application. This encryption app will connect to your cloud and encrypt the folder on the cloud. In this way, even someone who steals your access data to the cloud will not get to the folder. You can only unlock the folder using the nCryptedcloud application under a password.
It's relatively simple and yet in this combination it's already very safe and dare I say unbreakable. Additionally, with nCryptedcloud, you can share documents again in a secure way with restrictions set on what the end recipient can do with the file. The features of nCryptedcloud are many, but I'll leave it up to you to explore them. For those who might turn their noses up at cloud security: on its own, with a secure password policy and nCryptedcloud in combination, I trust this solution more than the corporate server that I hire a year ago to take care of.
Modern self-presentation as a basis
So I created the documents, I have them on the cloud. I sign most of our contracts, invoices and documents on the iPad. When I talk about a signature, I don't just mean the one with the pen, but also a qualified personal or company certificate. All documents bearing this signature, which I implement in the application Sign, have the value of an irrevocable signature and will withstand communication with the authorities and, if necessary, in court. All this is due to the new legislation in the Czech Republic and the great pressure of the EU on digital communication. I personally believe that this is the right and only direction that will rid your company of 90% of unnecessary papers. The average company shrinks 100 files of paper to 10. So can your company.
Next in line is a business meeting, presentation of offers as well as training and workshops. I manage all meetings and negotiations, including the presentation of the offer, on an iPad and iPhone. Specifically, if necessary, I will give the device to the customer to look at the presentations, our realizations, or the offer. I also often draw on the iPad during negotiations and illustrate the options for solving the given order. Videos of our realizations and projects, which I play to clients, also play an important role.
Once the customer "wins", I start writing notes. I do not have and do not give out brochures, catalogs, business cards. Instead, try putting an iPad with a project or quote in the client's hands. Share a digital presentation with him or send him a business card that contains not only information about you, but also links to videos, company presentations, articles with publications directly to his phone via iMessage or SMS. Trust me it works. Nobody wants papers these days. It just piles up for everyone. Clients only write down your name, phone number and e-mail from the business cards. That's a rather sad balance of your meeting, don't you think. Want to stand out. Provide them with a full-fledged and high-quality contact for you in their device. It already works as a company presentation to a person.
If you are preparing for a presentation, I prepare mine again on the iPad in the Keynote application. The finished application is uploaded to the cloud and when I present somewhere, I take the Apple TV in my bag, connect it in any room via HDMI, and start my presentation from my iPhone without a single cable. No computer, no cables. Often a guaranteed WOW effect as soon as you arrive. Plus, with a simple click on your phone, you can focus on what's happening in the hall in front of you. You catch the audience's immediate reactions and can respond. In addition, you are looking at the audience the whole time and not at the screen or the computer.
Less work with accounting
Like any manager or businessman, throughout the day you leave behind an economic trail for the company in the filing of gas payments, restaurant expenses, hotel invoices and many other expenses that you have to report in the company. I was always in the thick of it when I prepared documents for handover one day a week for the accounting office. Even better if I lost a document. That was non-tax costs to the company, it just whizzed by. Then everyone wondered. However, this is over and the solution is again in iOS.
Fortunately, new laws and regulations have started to apply in our country, which define the work with the electronic storage of receipts. In other words, today everything I pay in the business is by card, which is 99 percent of the expenses. App purchases, taxis Liftago, train tickets, hotels, flights, restaurants, just everything.
I am deliberately mentioning Liftago as a taxi service, because the service it offers for business customers is invaluable to me. I order a taxi in the application and I no longer have to worry about who will come for me, whether they will accept cards and what kind of receipt I will receive. After completing the trip, the card payment will be made automatically and the tax receipt will be sent to my e-mail shortly after. In addition, once a month I receive a list by e-mail with an overview of all my work trips.
Therefore, where they do not accept the card, I prefer not to buy, because I would immediately create an additional ticket problem. I hate tickets!
Immediately after payment, I scan all receipts on my iPhone with the ScannerPro application and upload them to the cloud in a prepared folder with my expenses. Especially in the company, we divide travel expenses, hotels, restaurants, purchasing applications and more. It's strange, but to me our accountant is like Mrs. Colombo. I swear, I've never seen her, I really haven't. Now that I remember it, I never even talked to her on the phone. Emails and cloud only. And guess what, it works!
Can you think of anything else like Kučerík, a businessman, a manager? If so, write in the comments and I will be happy to add. If not, I have a clear summary for you: Yes, I can only work with iOS as a businessman, manager. Not only that. Working with a combination of iPhone and iPad Pro is very fast and convenient for me. When I imagine opening my Mac for some of the above activities, and believe me, I love my golden one, I immediately add extra work to myself.
You will not succeed as an iOS engineer yet
Now we will ask the same question to Jan Kučeřík, a creative and technician: Is it possible to work only using iOS? The answer is no!
Although I tried a lot, there are things that you simply cannot put on iOS, and if you do, it will be at the expense of user comfort and time. There's no point in playing a hero just to prove that I can do everything on iOS. I need to work quickly and efficiently. There are times when iOS will be in reverse in terms of speed and efficiency to the Mac, and they are happening right now.
On a Mac, I work in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Some graphics functionality can be handled by iOS, but honestly what I need is not possible. It is therefore essential to work on graphic tasks. Next in line is web page editing. Even though our projects run on WordPress, I'm really struggling with it on iOS. Mac is simply significantly faster in such administration tasks.
For us, a necessary part of the activities is also related to servers and development environments. Again, there's no point in lying to yourself. iOS will launch VLC, TeamViewer and others, but this is only an emergency solution, or you can only provide quick assistance. Setting up servers, their real administration and support cannot be done without a Mac.
It should be added that when I'm already on the Mac, I of course also do activities for which I would normally use iOS. You already do it somehow automatically. Now that I have it open, I'll do the next one as well. But the truth is that for most of my work, these devices are enough for me:
- iPad Pro 128GB Cellular + Smart Keyboard + Apple Pencil
- iPhone 7 128GB
- Apple Watch
- AirPods
My "Kung Fu" is really good with these toys! Some may have finished reading now, others gave up halfway through and thought I'm crazy and what I'm describing here can't be used in their case. Yes, you may be right. My article about using iOS at work depends on how I work, what processes we have set up in the company and how we work. It doesn't necessarily mean that everyone will work that way. This article is a statement of real practice and not theory and is intended for those who are not afraid to make fundamental changes in their lives, leading to a simpler and more efficient life. So I have it today and I will sign it anytime.
In conclusion, I will allow myself one insight from my practice. A question asked a few years ago: “Doctor, you don't use a computer? After all, it's not even possible without it?" The doctor answers me dryly: "Mr. Kučerík, I've been working on a typewriter for 35 years and believe me, I'll still be retired and no one will talk me out of it." The sad conclusion is that the doctor he had to retire early because the insurance company started requiring doctors to connect online to the system.
I wish you all the best in your personal and professional life, and remember that in your lifetime you will be forced by circumstances to fundamentally change your attitude to how you work today. Don't retire early.
Another nice article, however, in terms of creative work, for example with graphics, I see a great benefit of the iPad Pro and Pencil here - editing photos, creating content, sketches - this is a very essential component of such work, which, God forbid, cannot be replaced by a mouse on a trackpad and if it is not next to A PC graphics tablet is a big plus for the iPad.
Hello Michal. I'm telling you the truth. Unfortunately, for me it's a little different work with graphics, which requires work with smartobjects and I can't use that for myself. I agree with you in a different way
ipad pro is not very useful for real graphics, i mean daily bread. We use it for sketching, drawing. We had a great effort to use it for simple DTP work, at least for quick previews to customers, and it is impossible. There is no application for tracing bitmaps, there is no application where it is possible to adjust the typeface or deform it in some way. Absolutely basic stuff. The iPad can be used to edit one photo, but the desktop is much faster for larger work with multiple photos.
Hello, Mr. Fox. I have the same knowledge as you. However, even this part is already developing and approaching better times. Thank you for the substantive contribution.
- Is there any reason why - as I understood from the text - macros do not work in office365 on iOS?
– nice article, thanks!
– and now imagine the OSX version of the program on an iPad Pro with a pencil.
Hello Martin. Unfortunately, iOS does not support macros.
I was more interested in the reason why. After all, it's not something that developers would have to rewrite in the code when moving from OSX. I don't use Office, but a lot of people around me do.
I'm afraid only Microsoft can give a solid answer to this
Macros don't even work on MacOS (or yes, but to a very limited extent). The reason is the fact that the macros are based on Visual Basic (I guess maybe 6), i.e. the Windows programming language, which is basically a hundred years old and Microsoft wants to get rid of it on Win as well. Porting it to other systems would be so expensive that it wouldn't be profitable for Microsoft (if it was even meaningfully possible at all)
Thanks for the addition Martin
All this is nice, but we still only talk about fragments of what business entails. If we are talking about the use of Apple devices in the company, it should start from the ground up. So if I start a company, the first thing I have to deal with is accounting. But accounting is not collecting documents FOR accountants. But tax records. It's nice that you'll never meet Mrs. Colombo, but what kind of contact do you have with the company's finances? Do you always write an email to a virtual accountant so that she can send you an up-to-date income statement or send you a cash flow balance sheet, or find out how you are doing at a specific center, etc.? This is a return to the days of the First Republic. Baťa also soon understood that if he wanted to build a functioning company, it was not enough just to look at the accounting books. You need to have non-stop access to current and accurate economic information. I think the stumbling block at Apple at the moment is accounting (understand in the Czech Republic). The only ones that in some way think of Apple are FLexibee from ABRY (if we use the cloud version) and possibly iDoklad from CiglerSW, but they are only add-ons. If someone would like to run accounting in a company that uses 100% Apple devices, then they will encounter :(
Thank you for the excellent insight. It depends on many circumstances. If you are self-employed, or a smaller company, you can 100% get by with Flexibee, or the aforementioned iDoklad, which is also free. If this is not enough for you for many other reasons, you can have an economical section on a PC or a Mac in a combination of Windows/macOS. At our company, a colleague who has macOS and an accountant on Windows specifically takes care of the economy. Compared to Windows, where macOS won't work for you, Apple is still usable even in this case. Again, I am not relying on theories, but the fact that several companies operate in this way. If I need the economy, I'll run Windows on a Mac. I still work at Apple. I dare to say that the economic department in most companies is significantly smaller than the rest of the company.
Thank you for answer. In any case, in the case of departments or sections in the company.. here the rule applies that the size does not matter.. the economic section is the basis of every company, that is, if we are talking about doing business in the EU and we have the ambition to so-called build the company. Personally, I chose a Mac to avoid Microsoft products and especially paying for them. I used to run a company server with OS Win 2003 server. It worked for a while, but then Microsoft decided to end support for older server versions and it was painted over. I refused to pay AGAIN for a new OS win server (with 5 accesses it would be at least 30 thousand) and within a year the entire server collapsed. Microsoft's policy is disastrous and anti-customer. I don't understand that people are still willing to blindly pay for Microsoft products, which both the OS and Office are constantly reprogramming (intentionally not writing, improving) so that the programs require more and more powerful PCs with large disks and memories. A demanding program = new hardware and often a new OS. In any case, I understand that HW manufacturers are crawling in front of MS and may break their support. After all, if it weren't for MS, we could still use 20-year-old computers for everyday work in most cases. Just remember, for example, the first versions of Windows and Office. They took up a few Mb and all they needed to run was an XT with a processor that had a fraction of today's performance, not to mention RAM or HDD. And what can today's Windows and office be useful in comparison to the original one? Do those few "improvements" really need that much power, memory, etc. ??? It's like when someone forces you to drive in a tank instead of a car, with the justification that you wouldn't be able to get from point A to point B in a car without anti-aircraft armor, satellite navigation, air conditioning, etc.. That it used to be possible even in a passenger car without armor, air conditioning and navigation? ...but come on...what was, was... today Microsoft is a general :( ...so you write about deploying Apple products in business? ...don't force Microsoft on me ...don't make Apple HW for Microsoft..the real magic of Apple is in the combination of HW and SW. If Steve Jobs read your advice ..he would probably be turning in his grave. PS We still use 10-year-old iMacs in our company every day and believe it or not, they work great ..immediate response, no biting and endless tracking of some sanders or wheels. After all, if it weren't for Microsoft there would be no problems with procrastination either :) ..but that's another story
Hello Jacob. I'm glad that posts and opinions like yours are created here. There is no such thing as a black and white world, and this discussion proves it. I am the last person who would want to work on windows and especially on Mac devices, but the economic section can be an important moment for some companies when they can come across if I have been working with some economic software for a long time. You got that very right in your previous post. If I have to choose In such a case, if because of one section the whole company will go to Windows, or one section will run on Mac devices, where there will be Windows, I choose the second option. Even Apple understands this and it is exactly the reason why Mac offers the option of installing a virtualized Windows environment or bootcamp. In addition, last year saw the start of a very intensive cooperation between Microsoft and Apple in the field of office tools. Real surprises await us in this section in the coming years. But the advantage is that Apple will be able to actively enter this daily.
Office was originally programmed for Apple. If Gates had an iota of honesty in him, then maybe there would be an affordable, reliable and low-performance Office today. We probably wouldn't have Open office, Libre office and other clones here, we wouldn't need them. But today, thank God for them. I believe that if it stayed with OS2 and MacOS competition, the world would certainly be nicer.
Anyway, I was looking at the AppStore again today for OS billing options and strangely enough I found at least 4 apps. Also, I remember UctoX from before. So there would be some variants ..but only some..there is no comparative test anywhere...no experience...details about suitability for warehouse management..cloud-friendly :) ...etc.
Apart from this, I believe that business Mac users would also like more information about the possibility of setting up Mac servers for the company's intranet. This is also very close to the topic above.
Then there is another technical one. The topic is the deployment of Apple products in business...but what you are describing is essentially the deployment of tablets and smartphones in business. You are describing the use of non-apple products, or third-party products working under Apple...but these usually also work under other OS ..android, MS, etc.. It would be more interesting to really focus on Apple products ..that is, HW and SW! ..then the article would make sense to me and would be worthy of the jablickar.cz website
An option may also be some Remote Desktop Apps, XenApp, etc. That is, publishing the application via some kind of remote access. Then you open the Windows application on your Mac as if it were on a Mac (in layman's terms). But I agree - it's a bit of a head scratcher.
here the answers in the discussion are deleted ???...what is the point of disqus verifying the email address, if the post is marked as spam anyway? sad that you are using products with Microsoft's behavior on Apple pages :(
I don't write anything, but I'm just a simple contributor :) I don't really understand the Microsoft sentence, do you mean I'm talking about a Microsoft based solution here?
you have nothing, I agree, it's just that the disqus plugin inexplicably blocks some contributions as spam, even though I've verified my email twice. I have a post if the stupid system ever decides to publish it.. I won't write twice, waste time with posts in a system that won't publish them
it seems like a terrible mistake to work on a tablet device (actually also on a laptop)
if you give an employee a task, and you give him 3 devices = tablet, laptop, desktop, (and you buy them all for the same price), I guarantee you that in the vast majority of cases, they will master it on the desktop much faster than on other devices. my personal estimate, if we were to talk about normal office work in Word... is a tablet 100% of the time, a laptop 40%, a desktop 30% :) laptops are fine for nomads (consultants, etc.), nothing to play with a tablet just to show that it somehow works, and I kill 3 times as much time with it, just for fun
an example is needed, the contractor sent the package to another company, so it needed to be registered with eori (number at the customs office). you need to find a form on their website, fill it in, sign it, stamp it, scan it, put it in the data locker and send it to customs. try it on all 3 devices and you'll see how funny it is (and if you fill in data somewhere, for example a foreigner's name, which you can't even pronounce, you're in luck, or you're in luck if you make a mistake during dictation..., I'm not even talking about when you can write 10 in total, so you can type faster than you can talk... is that what I'm actually talking about now? ipad pro shouldn't be called PRO in the first place. because the only pro is a desktop. everyone who values their time works for a device that suits it most of all, and if he doesn't have it with him at the moment and it doesn't matter, he will schedule his work so that he does it and it will be arranged. that's why many IT professionals don't even have a laptop, although they move, but they have a desktop
nonic, but I understand that apple products must be sold, so I'm looking forward to further articles from practice :)
Hello Mr. KK. I wrote several times in my article what my work looks like and how I personally work with these tools. I also stated that it is not applicable everywhere and for everyone. It is more than clear that there are professions, or rather tasks, that do not fit on a tablet. Try asking AVEX Steel Products, for example, why an engineering company employing 200 people uses tablets in the shop and in production? Why I. FNOL's internal clinic prefers to use a tablet when working with patients, why salespeople of pharmaceutical companies prefer to use a tablet rather than a computer. Certainly not because their employers want to add work to people and increase costs for the company. In conclusion: I didn't say anywhere that the tablet is universally deployable everywhere. The article is about my experience and the upcoming articles about the experience of those who have them in companies.
but I know why tablets are used there
because no content is produced on them.
then i make sense. a tablet as a display device + touching the order form is great. for anything else, it's a failure of the management who ordered them for the company (after all, you certainly agree that sometimes I don't order for companies what suits them best, but what the ordering manager himself benefits from the most :)
I can not agree. At Avex, every workstation in the factory has a tablet that not only displays information about the order, but on the contrary, information needs to be entered and worked with in ERP. By default, it may seem that you will be faster on a computer, but this is not the case when the iPad is equipped with applications and has technology that, after approaching a pallet with material, reads complete information about the quantity of pieces (without scanning!) after applying a fingerprint identifies the employee who performs the order, upon arrival at another device it automatically loads a drawing that you can fill in with a pen. You only know this from the information visualization page, because apparently there are no more effective tools for actions in your company. As I have already stated, it is not a prescription for everyone and everywhere, but have you seen a doctor who comes to see you and the tablet automatically opens all the information about your medical history, displays X-rays, CT scans and more? In addition, the doctor records the information in the NIS with a pen and shows you the next procedure at the bedside? Regarding IT and the purchase of HW. If you work in a company that works like this, I understand that you are skeptical. For ourselves and the companies with whom we have done projects, it is unthinkable to order HW that is not compatible with company processes and is not subject to management approval.
I have a degree in management in IT and what you say is not new to me. for you, on the other hand, it may be news that many implementations are removed after a few years, because it turns out that it is not effective.
Unfortunately, I don't have personal experience with the hospital, but I can say that I like it when the dentist shows me an X-ray on a developed X-ray image, rather than looking at the 10x lower resolution of today's monitors
I already know from my studies that the IT manager's course of action is almost always to try to implement new technologies on building procedures, so quite often the best course of action is to leave pen and paper to people, no matter how silly it may sound. our Minister of Finance, undoubtedly a successful man, he also gets by with a paper calendar instead of any planning :], as far as I remember the MP from London, I also get you a daily plan on A4rce from the secretary.. instead of someone messing around with an iPad with a reminder. or by phone... isn't it better to have an A4 that can be folded up and put in the fireplace at the end of the day? :)
Believe me that I understand you and I will repeat myself that these are cases from practice and not theory. Be glad that you don't have to visit the hospital, unfortunately others have to. If I were to accept what you write here, it would mean that I and others who operate like this are a complete failure and why try to develop something and move it forward when they are learning hard that it will not work. After all, we can line up behind others and do the same work in the same way for the same money and listen to the same arguments about how it can't be done. Excuse me, but I am the co-founder of one of the biggest brand retailers today, I participated in the implementation of important projects of Industry 4.0. at a time when others were wondering what it actually is, in medicine we moved treatment options where no one would have expected it, we made it possible for the patient did not have to stay in the hospital, we helped parents of children with special needs to communicate with their children at all. If this is a failure, I will be happy to fail again and again and convince everyone around me of it. Feel free to look like a fool, but I will not accept that something is not working. There are only people who don't want to.
I can say from my own experience that I haven't used a desktop for about 8 years - it hasn't been effective for me since I quit graphics and started doing business.
The tablet is the other extreme... BUT - when I think about my normal activities, today I solve about 70% on the PLUS iPhone.
And the things I deal with on a laptop can actually be done on a tablet.
Personally, I think that the classic PC will gradually disappear from households - by the way, what I'm thinking about is that apart from one friend, maybe no one even has one at home - in the office, yes - most people prefer a laptop and mostly a tablet for consuming content at home.
Well, most people would probably be able to use the tablet without any problems - some things go well, others worse. I think the main problem why tablets have not yet replaced laptops en masse is psychological - "what if I need to do something more, use a program that is not on the tablet".
What can I say… ugh. It can be seen that you studied IT management, so you are not even an ajjak and, judging by your arguments, not a manager at all.
Very interesting article :) I use iPad Pro and iPhone every day as a construction manager and I can't imagine being without these devices. Regarding my (small) business, an iPad is enough for me 95% of the time. Otherwise, in terms of accounting, do you do it in January-kucerik-a bunch of dividing folders, or do you just have kucerik-a bunch of folders and have everything from the whole year here? I personally have January, then February, etc., and a division into received and sent folders
Hello René and thanks for your question. Really great for a construction manager. In London, I even saw case-studies where builders at heights used iPads for detailed analysis of the roof and what to expect there (google-maps) and when they were already in the air and could not hold anything in their hands other than Apple Watch tools warned of a change in weather conditions. Simple yet 100% functional. Now for the question. It was bought before. Now Kučeřík/month/activity type/document insertion
I use IDoklad in the construction industry (I'm there as a self-employed person), but otherwise all issued documents are handled by the e-shop and I just download them for the accountants and therefore put them in the cloud. Otherwise, the iPad and managing the e-shop is great. Like that, many things can already be solved using an iPad+keyboard+Applepencil (I use all this and ?). I will definitely be happy for more articles and thanks for the info about the electronic signature (mainly that the certificate using ČP does not support iOS). It would be great to have direct links to applications in the next article (I always don't like to jump from app to app, although the screen can finally be split now on the iPad). It's a shame that iStores doesn't do public training for users in terms of using the cloud and other things (if so, I missed it). I wish you much success in business (as a former Zlínák resident, I was happy for the Apple branch in Zlín)
Thanks for the response. Maybe you could be interested in the project http://www.AppleWorkshop.cz I deal with the details of the manager's daily routine at the workshop.
Oooo thanks so much for the link :)
Well, it was a very nice article. Although I read it for about 4 days, I learned exactly what I needed. I used to do this experiment with an iPad2, but after a few hours I had to go to the PC. I really liked the idea of only native apps from Apple. It seems to me that despite their flaws, one can effectively switch between devices (iPad, iPhone, Watch and perhaps even a PC with icloud.com) best with their use. Once again, good job!
Thank you Václav for the positive response and I am especially glad that you found what you were looking for in the article. My aim is not to glorify Apple as a brand, but to present a set of devices that, for me, are among those on the market that are functional, stable, user-friendly and, above all, adaptable to the corporate environment. Whether somewhere to a greater or lesser extent.
Thank you for the article and the subsequent practical test - useful work and good luck
Thank you Radek
Good day. Could you please elaborate a bit on your experience with text editing. Model example: I have 2 contracts in word and I need to make adjustments to the third one, copy (ctrl c+v) tables, headings, paragraphs. Unusable on ipad in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong. Thanks and good luck.
Hello Jane. Thank you for your question. What you describe is not appropriate to do on an iPad. It is inconvenient for the user. When I don't need to copy from multiple texts, I use an iPad, but otherwise I use a Mac. Certainly not doing things at any cost.
If I don't need to copy from multiple sources, I use Office 365 and when editing I use Apple Pencil with which I draw, illustrate, scratch and only then write the text. Mostly a combination of dictation and writing.
Hello, I have a probably trivial question - I use a Samsung tablet (Galaxy Note 2014) to write notes and annotate word and PDF files - I would like to set up the same for a colleague who has an ipad, but I ran into a problem with the file system not existing - how are you dealing with saving files on ipads so that multiple applications (word, xodo, etc.) can work with one file? Thank you in advance
Hello and thank you for your question. If I understand correctly, for example, you want to write a note, a word document and then convert it to a PDF, or use the PDF in another application? If this is the case, then in iOS it is used for this with every application "Open in". Then you transfer the created document to the environment in which you want to continue working.