Nebo is a particular nice app as well and has a handwritten equation solver. It's free at the moment IRRC.
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iPad Pro 10.5 - it’s a trap
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Well, it's not so easy to get a point in this subject.
If we were talking about excel and finnancial work, even a laptop couldn't be the better solution. If we choose to analyse the creative professionals needs, a laptop isn't the better thing. If the job is related with content production, like text based enviroment, maybe the laptop could be too much bulky. If one would make their life with presentations, why the laptop would be considered?
It's not fair to make a statement about the iPad as a primary tool if we can't analyse the whole scene. We have to think about what are the needs and expectations by the user point of view.
The iPad can be a primary system for some of us. A bulky laptop can be the perfect thing for some. And the desktop can be the only thing that makes thing get done. It's not that simple.
If we were talking about excel and finnancial work, even a laptop couldn't be the better solution. If we choose to analyse the creative professionals needs, a laptop isn't the better thing. If the job is related with content production, like text based enviroment, maybe the laptop could be too much bulky. If one would make their life with presentations, why the laptop would be considered?
It's not fair to make a statement about the iPad as a primary tool if we can't analyse the whole scene. We have to think about what are the needs and expectations by the user point of view.
The iPad can be a primary system for some of us. A bulky laptop can be the perfect thing for some. And the desktop can be the only thing that makes thing get done. It's not that simple.
Nebo is pretty awesome. From a personal wish list, I would like to see the ability to do some recognition training, to get to learn your personal handwriting style better, particularly to train for targeting specific recognition errors in your own particular handwriting.
But, I think I paid $2.99 and it's now free? Ridiculously good for the money and if your an MS Office user it can be exported to Word as well as PDF
It is still $2.99. And it looks pretty good so far. I would like different papers, but I think their default is part of the recognition process so that may be tough to change. Also, and this is more pie in the sky, but as a math teacher, graphing support would be amazing! Thanks again for the recommendation Alec!
I bought the iPad Pro and it's definitely a glorified iPad in my experience. I got all the accessories and don't feel great about the overall experience. I feel like it's still just an iPad. I want it to be more than it is. It has the power/processor to be more. But I have an 2015 iPad air 2 and really can't tell the difference. AM I missing something. I also have a 13" macbook pro and I feel like it has more functionality and more versatility (like running flash which is required for a few sites I use to do work). Sigh.
I am surprised that no one put up this video here yet...
(yes yes, I am bored while waiting for my new iPad Pro and Pencil to charge up)
You still have to use Flash? Wow!
And no, you probably aren't missing anything. When I need to move files around, do a ton of typing, research and write at the same time, I will almost always reach for my MacBook Pro, or even better, my 27" iMac. However, when I need to display student work, or write/draw ideas out for presentation, the iPad Pro is fantastic. For me, the killer feature is probably the Pencil, and if there were support for it on a regular iPad, that would probably do it for me. For my wife, she has dual monitors in her office for when she is working with policies, mapping, etc, but when she travels, she will travel as light as possible. So an iPad Pro can make an excellent travel companion with the ASK that also has the ability to just be a slate of glass for email and access to her web tools.
If you don't have a use case then yeah, the iPad Pro will seem like a blown up iPad.
Serious, you are missing the point. It is an iPad and it remains an iPad. That is it strength and it weakness as well.
Strength because you can do so many things my MacBook Pro 13" can't do and vise versa.
E.g. You can read in portrait, it has 4G/LTE, you can write on it, it's lightweight, the 10.5 is nimble the 12.9 is "full screen", a very solid and sturdy OS where not much can go wrong and a 10 hour battery life.
The MacBook Pro has a much more versatile OS, more power, much more accessories can be connected, it has the advantage of doing things the way they have been for years if not decades.
If you want to really enjoy the iPad Pro, you might need to take some time to re-invent your workflow/ways you do things, tricks and shortcuts to make your life easy. Just like working on OS-X some things can't be done quick and take several steps.
Again, I try to give serious advice, not to bash or annoy, if I might have done so, I'm sorry.
When it will be available, it will look like a simple ring.
With the AirPods successfully launched, I'd expect Apple to indeed offer an option like that in the future.
With Apple being rumoured to add 3D cameras with facial recognition to the next iPhone, I could imagine to eventually get to a system that recognizes the point on screen you're looking at, so the system could select the Excel cell to allow you to change the content. That could be voice-controlled in private environments or perhaps reading your mimic so you could talk silently to the system.
Sounds like Science Fiction? Well, that's true for many of today's "given" electronics, if you go back only a few decades
I'm looking forward to the discussions when Apple releases some "Minority Report"-style devices and people will claim that the traditional iPad approach is far better and superior, because a wearable would never be able to replace a good old tablet for productive work ...