My wife has two laptops, one for work and one personal. For the personal one, that only gets used for banking things, where she doesn’t trust her iPad or iPhone for that purpose. Almost everything else is done on her iPad. She also has work and personal iPhones, but even when she’s out of the house, those rarely get used. She takes her iPad with her everywhere she possibly can, and will even place calls on her iPad all the time. The phones typically only get used when she can’t have her iPad with her, or as a reminder of something she needs to do on another device. Her mix of time spent is probably 99% iPad and 1% iPhone and no measurable amount of personal time spent on the laptop.

For me, I have two personal laptops, one of which I use more as a server in the house (MacBook Pro M3 Max). The other one is my actual primary laptop (MacBook Air M5), but I don’t use it that much, either. I only use my laptop(s) when I’m doing things involving creation of content, such as writing or deep research, etc…. The iPad gets used for all content consumption at home, but doesn’t typically go outside the house. The iPhone gets used for calls, inside or outside of the house. And the iPhone is what gets taken with me when I’m outside of the house, both for occasional content consumption while I’m waiting somewhere, as well as navigation and call purposes. I’m probably closer to 90% iPad, and 9% iPhone and 1% laptop.

I think the patterns for many people are similar. Content consumption doesn’t typically get done on computers anymore. That’s for tablets and phones. Many people don’t do much in the way of creation anymore, and if they do, then it’s probably on resources provided by work.

Or, it’s video content creation where the tools on phones and tablets are sufficient for the majority of amateur or social media videos. And social media sites are all about keeping you consuming content for as long as they can, where creating content is neither necessary nor really desired. They want your attention on all those ads they’re selling against you as their captive inventory of eyeballs.

Well, hopefully you at least reach for her from time to time.

Real life app switch. It’s slower than alt+tab but it’s also less disruptive in terms of context loss.

I sometimes pull out my phone for the calculator rather than use the calculator app on my laptop. I can’t justify it as logical.

I am like this too. Software engineer by trade, but I rarely pull out my personal laptop (I suppose this is an admission that I also rarely work on personal projects these days too...).

Most of my consumption happens on my iPad at home and while traveling, and my iPhone when on the move (such as commuting).

It boggles my mind. I only use my phone as a very last resort. It's such a terrible experience overall. Between modals, banners, and ads, it's downright impossible to even read the content you want.

It's not even a screen size issue. I couldn't imagine diving into anything remotely serious without being able to open a new tab and search a specific term/concept/fact in a quarter of a second, without having to fight the autocorrect at every step of the process.