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>I know many super smart folks, folks who aren’t remotely Apple fanboys like Steven Sinofsky, who barely use their Macs (or Surface) but do use an iPad Pro.
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>I’m using my iPad Pro as my primary computer as well, and almost everyone I’ve shown it to has bought one. Yep, bought one … or tried to steal mine. Clearly, there are a lot of people who would buy an iPad.
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>So why aren’t the sales higher? I think iPad is suffering from the “TiVo paradox.”
This is one of the reasons why Apple created the retail stores – so customers could go in and try out the hardware and software. One of the downsides of devices like the iPad is they are “nice to have” not “I need that”. So the buying experience has to be experiential – that is, you have to try it before you buy it.
Mine has all but ‘replaced’ my trusty old 2013~ Air, that machine sits there neglected ;_; until I need either Xcode or Sketch. Sketch is terrific but the Pencil supported apps for the iPad are far nicer to do initial work in, similar to playgrounds you can jot something down then polish it off on the Mac.
Since scrivener for iOS dropped, I paired a Mac keyboard to my air and started writing a review of it, using it.
Mum in laws MBP 3,1 17″ just bought the farm, and I’ll be recommending that she gets the larger iPad Pro with a pencil, she paints a lot and I think she will looooooove art rage and some of the proper Paint Sim apps too. Very few of us now require a Truck PC. And even then we don’t need them that often.
a 256GB iPad Pro 13″is 1099, a 256GB macbook is 1299, for me as a developer, the macbook still does a lot more(I can run xcode, virtual box,etc). Adding the pencil capability makes the iPad Pro more compelling but also brings the price up another $100. Ideally I would live to see a macbook/OSX with the Apple ARM SOC brains or a port of Xcode to iOS. I think one or both will happen in the next 2 years.