The iPad has always been a rather confusing product for me. In the early days, it wasn't good enough, maybe the equivalent of a cell phone with a larger screen. But years after iPad was launched, I bought the first generation of iPad Air.
For a long time, I didn't use it very much. Although the screen was bigger, it was still a bit heavy, and the kids liked to surf and watch youtube with it, so I banned them from using it in bed. Now, it's still in my living room, and occasionally someone will pick it up and slide it around a few times, or say: zero battery.
However, I am excited about the iPad Mini that came out last year. Although I am a developer and I always dream of a large iPad Pro that can completely replace a desktop or laptop, the reality is that you can never do any good development work with an iPad Pro.
The solutions are always varied, but mostly impractical. The most ridiculous solution is to connect remotely to your home or work computer. iPad Pro is just a display terminal, yes, purely for terminal use.
Yes I admit that was quite creative, considering its price, the iPad Pro should not be used as a terminal only, not to mention you need to buy more peripherals for it to be a competent terminal.
And unfortunately, my colleague's iPad Pro is bent and she laughs and says, "Look, I can bend it back .... This makes me so unsure about the iPad Pro that I won't consider any larger iPads.
However, I was quite excited by the iPad Mini last year, and before that my girlfriend bought a new iPad Air. She loves paint as much as I do, so she also bought an apple pencel 2, and now she prefers to create with the iPad Air than with my Wacom. For the same reason I do, she doesn't like the large size of the ipad Pro (I thought every woman likes the large size). I tried her ipad Air. + AP2 and had a good experience, except for certain apps, I can almost say it can replace my Wacom.
So I paid quite a bit of attention to the iPad Mini that was released last year, yes, even though I later learned that it has some flaws, such as jelly, I don't care much and I can say that I am not affected at all. And in recent years, I started to get used to using e-books, as mentioned before, my first generation ipad Air is quite old, the system is not updated and slow, even the kids don't use it much anymore. But the new iPad Mini has a much larger screen in a similar size, and the texture is quite good.
Finally, after the iPad Mini6 was released for a while, I decided to buy it again, this time I also bought the AP2, now I like to use it to read e-books, occasionally I use it to draw something, and it's easy to hold it in one hand while lying in bed surfing.
So, in the end, I think the ipad can only be a "small device with some additional professional use", and specific people can rely on it as a professional tool, but for me, even the iPad Pro can't replace a desktop or laptop.
I had so much hope that I could replace it, but then I knew it was impossible for the simple reason that Apple's interests were at stake, so I gave up on the idea. While my colleague doesn't have this problem because he doesn't use an ipad and uses Microsoft devices, and in a way, that's enviable.
In the end, most of the people who were disappointed with the iPad Pro, like me, expected it to be a productivity tool, replacing a desktop or laptop, high performance, a board to take with you wherever you want to go, but as we all know now, Apple said: No, you can't use it that way, even now that it has an M processor, it still can't.
So that's the main reason I haven't considered the larger iPad so far, because I know I'll be disappointed, but for other uses, the smaller size, the iPad is quite competent.
