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The iPad Mini is a Problem
This is probably a me problem more than the iPad Mini, but let me explain.
When I first got the iPad Mini 6, it became my everything device. Not only is it spectacular as a phone replacement device for when I am at home. But it has been the best device to use whenever I am doing anything around the house.
One of the main goals of the iPad Mini was to become my main reading device. Mostly, I planned to read books on it, but it soon became the device I did all my reading: RSS, News+, Ground News, and Newsletters. I read everything on the iPad Mini, and my iPhone just became a conduit to save articles and things I wanted to read later.
Since I got a new e-reader device, something I still haven’t written about yet but it is coming soon, the iPad Mini started to become a Mini iPad Pro / entertainment device. Not that the iPad Mini wasn’t already an entertainment device, but because I was mostly using it for reading and no longer used the device as my sole reading device, entertainment became a most used activity.
This is not bad necessarily; iPads are great entertainment devices, but I am cautious about calling the iPad that sometimes because then the bandwagon of haters will jump in saying that is the only thing iPads are good for. On the contrary, the iPad Mini is a great…
