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 - Forscore. It's pretty. The process of connecting OneDrive so I can download my music is a convoluted mess of having to go through the Files app. MobileSheets connects directly. Luckily, it's available for for iPadOS now, so I ponied up for yet another MobileSheets lisence (very worth it) to just use the app I'm used to and downloaded my full library backup faster than I could figure out how to connect OneDrive to Forscore.
Example 3: The iPad can't handle my widescreen monitor. My various Samsung tablets have no problem. There seem to be no settings or options to configure how the iPad is trying to use the external display, just extend or mirror and if extend doesn't work, to bad, so sad. Maybe I'll google the situation, maybe not.
So, is iPadOS unintuituve, inflexible, locked in garbage? Is Android so superior? Or do I prefer Android because I know it? Do I know Android better because I prefer it, so I use it, so I know it better, so I'm comfortable with it, so I prefer it, so I use it, so I know it better, so I prefer to use it....which came first?
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.
Have the workflows gotten farther apart, or have I just gotten more set in the Android way of doing things? Will my husband steal the new iPad so he can have the bigger second screen with his mac setup (he's already tried)? Or will having all the other boxes ticked (big screen, M2, 512, cellular, with the new availability of familiar apps) make it worth the setup hassle and navigation learning curve?
"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.