_posts/2017-01-18-the-thing-about-trucks-by-rob-rhyne.markdown
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title: The Thing about Trucks by Rob Rhyne
date: 2017-01-18 07:54:00 -06:00
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- iOS
- iPad Only
- tech
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link_url: http://rd2.io/2017/01/macs-and-trucks/
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Rob Rhyne explains why he'd take his Mac if he could only take one device with him:
> My thinking goes like this: I can borrow someone else’s phone if I need to make a call, but I want *my* Mac if I need to do any sort of deep thinking. This feeling of personalization runs deep in a desktop operating system. It’s much more than wallpaper, or color schemes. My Mac is loaded with software and utilities that *I have written* custom for my specific use. I’m not talking about general software development, but scripting, and automation which ease my everyday tasks.
Rob nails it by saying that the iPad-only community seems to be filled with dogma. I personally find myself in a middle ground. I do a lot with iOS—[I publish most articles on this site with iOS](/2016/01/publishing-to-jekyll-from-ios/), in fact—but there are things that I like doing on my Mac. Things I can't do on iOS by design. As with most situations, do what works best for you.