The chicken or the egg?
I've been on a bit of a tablet collecting spree in the past few months, culminating in an iPad Pro that checks all the boxes that I found on Facebook marketplace yesterday. As I've been trying to set it up, I've been endlessly frustrated by things that don't work, or at least don't work the way I think they should, or would, or in any way that's easy to figure out without a google search. It's not intuitive for me.
Example 1: You can add one email account in the mail app when you first fire it up. After that, there is no add button or instruction to add another. My husband, the apple user, couldn't even remember how, other than it was some system wide setting and we had to look it up.
Example 2: I even downloaded the app that every musician uses and loves on iPad -…
"I understand @dstrauss waffling back and forth trying to make one or the other system work while being endlessly frustrated by the way things work whichever way you end up trying to go."
Know exactly what you want/need is the most frustrating process. I NEED a cellular Surface Pro on an M5 running MacOS! I'm biding my time with an M4 MacBook Pro (16gb/1tb) with a M1 iPad Pro (16gb/1tb), but still have little hope of getting that from the iPad line BECAUSE it can't run full APPLICATIONS. Apps are the bane of the tablet workld because inevitably some feature that you NEED get sompromised away in order to make it an APP and not an APPLICATION.
@violajack - I'm runninig Outlook on my IPad Pro, so adding a second email account was a snap from the hamburger menu in the upper left corner - it opens the account details list (showing iInbox, Sent. Deleted, etc,) with a small icon on hte left margin to add accounts). Despite a lot of "hate" for Outlook I still find it better on a Mac/iPad than the built in eMail App.