Tim Cook, replying to Walt Mossberg at D11

I know you read all the blergs and the tweets but I feel like this comment was overlooked while he was being interviewed live.

I’ve met Apple Store managers—Managers—who told me that they got rid of their Macs because iPhone does everything they need. Now Apple’s CEO says his (admittedly hot stock-market-pleasing) tablet is doing a “significant percentage” of his computing.

Hang on, pause for dramatic effect.

Wow.

(via chartier)

Over 80% of my writing work now is done on the iPad mini and mobile phone, which at this time are an iPhone 4S and a Find 5 which I got to review from Oppo. The use of the Mac has been mostly relegated to whenever I need to recharge the battery on the iPad (gasp! it can run out of juice!) or when I need to use the iPad as a reference device.

On my daily travels, the Mac has stopped being a member of my backpack, in fact, i hardly ever carry a backpack anymore, just a small bag to carry the iPad along with the cables and plugs. And a battery pack.

I use iA Writer on all my three Apple devices. On the iPad, Photoshop Touch along with Snapseed are my two image editing tools. I want to use Poster to blog but the WordPress installation at work hasn’t been updated to 3.6, so I end up with the official WordPress app. The biggest problem with not using a Mac is I can’t get the embed code for tweets that I sometimes want to include in my posts, so I’m forced to resort to simple linking.

Currently I’m experimenting with doing video interviews using the iPad. It’s not as easy as writing.

Overall though, my workflow runs nicely without the Mac.