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Never has the cry of ‘it’s just a bigger Apple thing’ been more applicable than it has with iPad Pro – this is literally a bigger iPad. But that approach to thinking about it is also reductive. The Microsoft Surface has blazed a sort of hybrid path – for people that don’t want to compromise having a laptop experience. The iPad pro, on the other hand, is unapologetically tablety. The keyboard feels solid but it’s no substitute for a MacBook. The muti-app experience, on the other hand, is far and away better than on any competing system — and the way that it enables creatives to alternate between the various ‘modes’ is unique to this platform.
There are a lot of ways to slice iPad Pro. But one of the biggest and hardest to quantify is the way that it will end the debate about whether the tablet is a tool for creation once and for all.
Sprinkled throughout this review, Panzarino asks some interesting questions and makes some very good points. Bottom line is, who cares if the iPad Pro is an “enterprise play” or “just for designers” or “a laptop replacement”? It’s not going to be all things to all people but the tech media often seems to want to make it that.
The size has highlighted the limits of iOS. It really works well for smaller screen sizes but on a device this big it’s inadequate on many dimensions. That is part of evolving a product and over time Apple will improve the OS and developers will build and adapt their apps.
The problem is that people expect everything to be perfect on day one. The iPhone had lots of OS short comings for 2-3 years, but tech writers and reviewers remember it as perfect when it was launched.
My spidey sense tells me that the iPad Pro will become a major product for Apple. In the meantime it still doesn’t fart rainbows during unboxing videos.
Would love to add this to my creative toolset. The only thing holding me back from choosing an iPad Pro over a MacBook Air or MacBook is the typical difficulty of getting files in and out of iOS compared to just plugging in an external hard drive on the MB and Air….why oh why? Don’t understand the inability to use external storage devices with my iPad and iPhone. Would be a nice market also…maybe a slim, same-size SSD that clips on the back. Am I missing something?
The problem with iPad Pro is that at least for me it doesn’t even come close to being able to replace a laptop. it’s not even in the same zipcode. I will buy it because I need its drawing capabilities but I will have to carry it along with an MBA. that plainly sucks but neither product is sufficient for my needs by itself. I suspect this will be true for many people who want an ipad pro for its new capabilities and not simply because it’s a new Apple gizmo.
It might not replace your laptop but Apple is designing for the future not the present or the past.
Touch interface is a long, long play. If you’re under 15 years old now, you much prefer and are way more comfortable on an iPad than a laptop/desktop interface. Even a person like me, in my 40s and a heavy computer user since the early 80s, way prefers an iPad to anything else for a lot of tasks. But, there’s also a lot of things I can’t do with any touch interface device (CAD/CAE stuff, mostly, though in principle that software could be rewritten for touch, but the business case to do so is non-existent for now). So, if I have to choose one device, it’s a laptop.
If you think of the iPod as the start of a 25 year play into how humans communicate (what Apple learnt about supply chain management and portable design from the iPod made the iPhone possible, and the watch is the evolution of the phone onto the wrist, eventually), then the iPad is 5 years into a 25 year play for the future of how humans will interact with complex machines, overhauling the 1985-2010 play.
You seem to be missing iCloud. There’s also Creative Cloud for us subscribers, as well as Dropbox. I don’t see a problem with file storage, assuming decent internet connections via WiFi or cellular.
I’m not interested in odorous rainbows.
I’d love to have an iPad Pro right now with the Apple Pencil, keyboard, and the new Adobe mobile apps.
There’s also Canon’s EOS Remote app for remote controlling Canon EOS cameras, which I find very handy. It’d be great to see live views of what my camera sees in the studio on that large screen, without the added bulk of even the slick and slim new Mac Book’s keyboard.
Something sensible out of you!
The problem with my iPhone is that it doesn’t even remotely replace my VAX 4500. I have to run Fortran simulations and until the iPhone can do that properly then it’s just sparkly doodad that Apple is foisting on people.
Fortran and Cobol are nigh obsolete, outside of government catacombs.
snort You’re kidding right?