Apps like Dropbox, Evernote, Gmail, iA Writer, and CloudMagic all have companion apps on the Mac. When I think about it, all of the apps I use on my iPad really are extensions of my other computers. In this way, the iPad is an extension of my computer. It is much easier to get this info in vSSH via my MacBook and then sync with my iPad.
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Again, it would take me a long time to manually type in all of the code and credentials into Prompt.
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The lesson is that for consumers like me (Mac-loving geeks, nerds, and dorks working in IT), an iPad is only truly useful if it leverages the power of a full fledged computer. VSSH is not as pretty as Prompt, but it’s ability to cross platforms makes it (and my iPad) truly useful to me. I ultimately found ( ) - a multi-platform application that does it all on all of the devices I use. This then led me down the path to find an app that might live up to my hopes. I was hoping the Mac version could sync all of my credentials, snippets, and hosts to its iOS buddies, but alas. Unfortunately, Panic does not make a Mac companion application for Prompt. If I could do it on my iPad, certainly I could do it on my Mac. Using Prompt made me realize that I should be using an application that marries the functions of Terminal and SnippetsLab. Terminal provided access to the remote command line interfaces and ( ) stored and organized all of my frequently-used code. On the Mac side of things, I have long used the Terminal and SnippetsLab to do remotely maintain servers. So, after using Prompt on my iPad, I was somewhat devastated to learn there was no companion application for my Mac. In the end, I still need deep integration (dare I say, synergy?) with my computers upon which I depend daily. But this is just the start of a good iOS app. Panic’s ( ) app for iOS makes this point perfectly, offering a traditional SSH/Telnet shell client with support for code snippets and bookmarks. Indeed, the beauty of well-designed iOS apps is that they overcome the problems I have described, creatively functioning without the need for keyboard or other applications to be simultaneously accessed. However, this is not to say that the iPad or iPhone cannot have a valuable place in my workflow. In my case, it never works because I’m simply too dependent on a keyboard and multitasking. In the past, I have written about my attempts to throw away my laptop for an iPad.
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