iPad Pro MacBreak Weekly conversation about iPad Pro

[Rogifan]

Good discussion about iPad OS. Jason Snell was on this episode. Leo brought up John Gruber’s review. Jason threw some shade saying John’s argument is the one you make when you have no other arguments left. Also said John doesn’t get the iPad, doesn’t use it, doesn’t care about it. They’re friends and he wasn’t saying it a mean or nasty way but still…ouch.

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The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for

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[cambookpro]

The whole episode is worth a listen, but the Gruber review analysis is from 55:09 on the above link.

 

[Rogifan]

The whole episode is worth a listen, but the Gruber review analysis is from 55:09 on the above link.

I said this in another post:

If any company could make a convertible work it’s Apple. I have an iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard. I’m touching the screen all the time. It feels totally normal. I don’t have gorilla arm, my hand/wrist doesn’t hurt. Apple should make the iPad Pro their convertible device. They should make it their experimental device where they try different things and see what works. Maybe that experimenting results in touch screen Macs and the iPad Pro goes away. Or maybe it stays and becomes Apple’s touch screen laptop with a beefed up iPadOS.

 

[cambookpro]

I said this in another post:

If any company could make a convertible work it’s Apple. I have an iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard. I’m touching the screen all the time. It feels totally normal. I don’t have gorilla arm, my hand/wrist doesn’t hurt. Apple should make the iPad Pro their convertible device. They should make it their experimental device where they try different things and see what works. Maybe that experimenting results in touch screen Macs and the iPad Pro goes away. Or maybe it stays and becomes Apple’s touch screen laptop with a beefed up iPadOS.

I don't think it's a completely original thought, but it would also be interesting to see what would happen if you start from the other direction: what happens if you bring the unique parts of the iPad (Pencil support, cellular radios, camera, Face ID) to a MacBook? I definitely think there's now a compelling case for some kind of convertible device which isn't as compromised as it would have been 4-5 years ago, and would like to see Apple try.

 

[Rogifan]

I don't think it's a completely original thought, but it would also be interesting to see what would happen if you start from the other direction: what happens if you bring the unique parts of the iPad (Pencil support, cellular radios, camera, Face ID) to a MacBook? I definitely think there's now a compelling case for some kind of convertible device which isn't as compromised as it would have been 4-5 years ago, and would like to see Apple try.

Yeah it’s hard not to think Apple is intentionally keeping certain things from the Mac because then a certain segment of pros wouldn’t need to own an iPad. I do think most of Apple’s decisions around iPad Pro and Mac laptops is artificial segmentation.