All iPads iPads Feel Futuristic

[xxray]

Holding what feels like just a computer screen and being able to touch it and interact with still feels so futuristic. I’m talking no case, no accessories, just a pure iPad in your hands, it still feels so cool to me. Phones feel less futuristic to me bc they’re pocket-sized, but being able to interact with desktop websites while just holding what feels like a screen in my hands, only about a pound, just feels like the future, even though it’s been like this or similar for almost 10 years.

 

[pvq]

I agree...100%. iPad is still a magic piece of glass. I just dipped my toe back into iPad now that they introduced iPadOS. I am not a power user...but desktop browsing capability for me means iPad Pro 12.9 can completely replace my laptop for my needs PLUS its much better for social media/video consumption!

 

[aevan]

Holding what feels like just a computer screen and being able to touch it and interact with still feels so futuristic. I’m talking no case, no accessories, just a pure iPad in your hands, it still feels so cool to me. Phones feel less futuristic to me bc they’re pocket-sized, but being able to interact with desktop websites while just holding what feels like a screen in my hands, only about a pound, just feels like the future, even though it’s been like this or similar for almost 10 years.

Was just thinking that. If I had to take one device and show it to myself 20 years ago, it would be the iPad, because I think that would excite me the most in that "see the future" sense.

 

[AutomaticApple]

Holding what feels like just a computer screen and being able to touch it and interact with still feels so futuristic. I’m talking no case, no accessories, just a pure iPad in your hands, it still feels so cool to me. Phones feel less futuristic to me bc they’re pocket-sized, but being able to interact with desktop websites while just holding what feels like a screen in my hands, only about a pound, just feels like the future, even though it’s been like this or similar for almost 10 years.

The iPad truly is the future of portable computers.

 

[sparksd]

Yeah, I think back to the first time I used a video terminal in the 70's in lieu of punch cards, paper tapes, tape drives, and even panel switches as an input device - I didn't envision using the pads from TV's Star Trek in my lifetime.

 

[okieoutwest]

I wholeheartedly agree. I last bought an iPad in 2012 and it was great but still heavy and hard to hold. Bought an iPad mini 5 last weekend on a whim and it feels like my 7 year old self would just be so thrilled to see this in my hands now.

 

[Strangedream]

Sounds like you just got your first iPad yesterday! All jokes aside, iPad are pretty dope and I love mine. I only have the folio cover (no keyboard) and the Apple Pencil and sometimes at home I remove the cover for the pleasure to feel it bare in my hands.

I wish they OS was more versatile tho, like allowing you to truly open several windows/tasks at once. Also imagine a completely (yet uselessly) translucent iPad!

 

[Kal-037]

The new iPad Pros are my favorite Apple Product ever. The speakers, design, screen quality, thinness, power, general specs, and just everything makes them awesome. I can only think of maybe 1-3 things I’d have liked Apple to have added in, but they are small nitpicks really.

 

[robbieduncan]

For me the part that kills the sci-fi illusion is the lightning port. Not that it's lightning rather than USB-C but that there is a port at all. For a pure futuristic device I'd expect a seamless, port-less device. Not practical but very futuristic!

 

[0989382]

I'd expect a seamless, port-less device

Don't give Apple any encouragement, they'll do it if they can get away with it ;-) Lol Only joking.


For me it's not just futuristic, but also the freedom it opens up is unreal. Computers used to be the size of buildings, then cars, then TVs then they could be carried by hand, then in our bags and moved about from desk to desk. But now, with iPad being tethered to that desk has been broken. It's now less awkward to use your computer out and about, in a café, on a sofa, in bed, in the car etc. I love it. Even my 12" MacBook wasn't as versatile or tough to be used in so many real world applications as iPad is. I never want to go back.