"The iPad as a fast, precise tool for creativity"

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 7, 2018 at 05:43 PM

Perhaps not directly relevant to most frequenters here, but electronic music composer Mark Jenkins has since 2010 produced an entire album with the iPad, and even written a book about it. He has also done live concerts with this setup. This is no minor feat, both for Jenkins and the iPad itself; electronic music production is very demanding on processors, and any glitch would be heard instantly.

So, given the right apps, I would not be surprised that this can be done in other disciplines as well. For my part, I have a 60 Euro Windows 10 tablet, with foldable keyboard and bluetooth mouse, which I take with me when space is too limited for my laptop. I’ve done a lot of text-based work with it. It’s not ideal when I need to be checking reference material, e.g. my notes on Evernote, while writing, but it is great for focused brainstorming texts and the like.

In fact, I believe that when the iPad was first introduced it couldn’t multitask, and Steve Jobs argued that this was an actual choice; with so many distraction-free writing apps around these days, this may well have made sense.