Is the transition to ios relevant?

Question

iOS

Question to the owner of this technique - how are things with pirated software, Google services (drive, keep, documents) and jailbreak of the latest versions of ios?
On the eve of Black Friday, I decided to radically change my and my parent's gadgets.
Recently, wearing a 15.6 inch laptop outdoors has become hard labor. I'm thinking of replacing it with ipad mini 2 gen (or ipad air) 16gb. Requirements - a stable and smooth Chrome browser (Nexus 7 of 2013 allows this aspect to be neglected) with the ability to administer the site, high-quality GPS, the presence of photoshop.
The task of a smartphone (now a buggy sony xperia sola) is good voice communication, navigation, high-quality sound in headphones, router mode. Iphope 4s 32 gb (are there programs for transferring files via bluetooth, wifi, as well as a flash drive mode without additional software on a PC?) or is the budget line of motorola G preferable?
It's easier with parents. After buying ultrabooks with win 8 on board, they ignored the touchpad and keyboard, content with touch screens. Requirements - stability and smoothness of the browser, reading books, listening to music with watching TV shows online. For these purposes, is the ipad 3gen 16 gb suitable?

Answer 1

better look in the direction of Windows tablets with normal characteristics.

Answer 2

Why jel? Google services (documents, spreadsheets, chrome, disk, etc., etc.) are all free.
With ios already 4 years old, there has never been a need to purchase any software from the appstore, because there are just a lot of replacements for similar, free ones. Absolutely for any task.
And in the end, even if something is really needed ... 200 rubles is not money. In the end, you also need to appreciate the work of developers.
With this it is ideal and iphone to cope starting from 5 gen
Well, the only thing of course on the pad is more convenient at times in particular FS.
From the iPad, I strongly recommend the Pad mini 2 Retina. The retina picture is perfect. Size and weight, only a chihuahua is more compact :) Well, the most important plus is the operating time. If "Administrate" only, 100% will be enough for a week.
By iPhone. 4s is good in terms of design, this is no doubt. However, very soon iOS8, and he copes with the 7th measure, not to say with a bang. Well, the battery does not last a day. Well, with akb the same picture is in 5 and 5s. Therefore, I advise you to take the iPad with a SIM card. In modem mode, iPhone 4-5 hours maximum ..
In general, after the iPhone, when you get an iPad, the iPhone already purely performs the function of Nokia and that's it. Therefore, you can even without jokes and buy a brick that will work for 2-3 weeks without charging) Well, the iPhone will be purely to call.
Bluetooth... it almost sounds like an infrared port in the days of gigabit wireless networks.
You plug in the cord, it will be defined as storage without software on the PC. Drop whatever.
And so in general AirDrop starting from 4s (or maybe 4). There, not only files but also a screen with sound can be broadcast, an excellent replacement for the same HDMI. The quality is quite. Well, 1 software on a PC for airdrop, I think is not critical, similarly, any android will also require software. And so in general it is possible the computer in a case. The need disappears in the PC)
Why do not I advise ipad3 and 2, firstly, the picture is compared to the retina on mini, earth and sky. Secondly, ipad 2 is morally outdated, it is easy to surf on the Internet without lags. But this is the maximum, i.e. multitasking - goodbye. Well, similarly, fate awaits the 3rd pad with the release of the new ios.
Ideal ipad mini 2 retina WiFi + cellular (32gb+) and any phone even iphone 4s. Or ipad air, but I don’t see the point of it for these purposes. But he will be more serious IMHO. with music, video you can work.
And in fact it’s not so expensive, if not aiming for fresh, then roughly speaking mini 2 32gb + 4g = about 18k and the same 4s = 6-7k, in principle, they recently bought a 5 grater for 9k. It can be cheaper too.
Well, I'm looking at a used price tag. it's like black friday.
No one has yet been disappointed in Apple technology, if the purchase was originally with the goal of being functional, of high quality. And the software there is a sea of ​​fries. Jail is stupid for toys, I think. Yes, applications are doing on ios now, which the PC will envy xD

Answer 3

jailbreak the latest versions of ios?

As far as I remember, everything is bad with this, Apple closed all the holes well, jailbreakers cannot break
Accordingly, it will be difficult to put something pirated
So, everything except Keep for iOS is there, but I personally, for example, prefer to use non-Google counterparts, because Google's design for iOS is usually so-so.
Instead of drive - dropbox, and in iOS 8 we are promised iCloud Drive from Apple.
Keep - regular Notes.
Documents - to be honest, there has never been a need to edit rich documents on a tablet / phone, but Notes or a txt document in a dropbox will do for simple notes)
I would not advise using a browser other than Safari, the problem is that, firstly, Apple prohibits any software with virtual machines (and any browser has a Javascript VM), and secondly, for all non-Apple applications using the browser component, it is turned off JIT, respectively, we get the speed of the javascript several times less than that of Safari. Those. any third-party browsers for iOS are essentially Safari launchers with a different interface and with JIT disabled. Although, it is quite possible that, for example, the same iPad Air has enough dope so that the difference in speed is not visible)

Answer 4

It seems to me that some of the comments above do not correctly reflect the situation with the jailbreak, at the moment there is an untethered jailbreak for all devices that exist on the free market (except for some Apple TVs) and all iOS up to 7.1.x, i.e. for all versions of iOS.