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iPad Pro Man, I’m excited for tomorrow!
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This! Apple is waiting for a decent chunk of users to get on the M series and then you'll see more features trickling down.
Agreed 100%. I too had first gen iPad Pro, so this one is a massive upgrade for me as well..
Of course there is room for additional improvement...But why does multitasking and file management on the iPad need to work just as well as on MacOS? When it's been made abundantly clear by Apple that the iPad is NOT a Mac and will never be designed to fully replace one?
Yeah because XDR, M1, 8GB RAM so bad ?
The era when more power than you need is a bad thing ?
Jumping from 2017 vintage 10.5 IPP to 11 inch M1….not that hard a choice with a bit of hardware future proofing having the 1Tb/16Gb/5g. iPad OS was never the critical factor.
You don’t like the new multitasking, app shelf or whatever they called it? I use iPP like computer half of the day so having basically Spaces is a welcome addition. Also the Focus feature, when you’re in work/school you will have the Home Screen you need at that moment.
M1 iPad Pro owners should be happy cause at this rate the M1 should be perfectly usable for the next 10+ years, haha.
I will admit. A lot less than I expected on the iPadOS front.
Apple never promised us any of the features that all of you are claiming they "obviously" had to implement.
Yes, iPadOS will keep getting more and more features. But exactly ZERO(0!!!) of them will be legitimate MacOS parallels or replacements.
Apple is only forced to do big things with iPadOS when iPads stop being the best selling tablet computer on the market.
In other words, iPadOS will be "throttled" for ever and always as today's WWDC just cemented so boldly.
iPads just sell too well for Apple to do anything truly new and amazing with them. And that's all there is to it, the demand is still just too strong.
Keep dreaming.
Yes, iPadOS will keep getting more and more features. But exactly ZERO(0!!!) of them will be legitimate MacOS parallels or replacements.
Apple is only forced to do big things with iPadOS when iPads stop being the best selling tablet computer on the market.
In other words, iPadOS will be "throttled" for ever and always as today's WWDC just cemented so boldly.
iPads just sell too well for Apple to do anything truly new and amazing with them. And that's all there is to it, the demand is still just too strong.
They do if they’re buying the pros. Dont think the average joe spends over double the money on the pros if they aren’t looking for some pro features as well lol
I’m a average person, and I bought the iPad Pro not for the pro softwares at all, but for the pro hardware. Also I love the screen size. I know people in my area here who has iPad Pro, didn’t buy it for the pro whatever, they buy it for the amazing screen size. And since there is no iPad 12.9 non-pro, there isn’t much choice for the real estate of screen size.
No ipados monitor support is a hard fail.Hey OP @cupcakes2000, how are you feeling now?
Safari extensions and tab management for iOS and ipados is a plus.
Ipados multitasking will need to be tested.
app drawer in the dock is a plus for multitasking any app.
Bloody widgets everywhere better not remove the already good enough and hideable widget implementation the iPad has already.
Continuity from Mac to iPad looks interesting
some quite cool stuff, including some (maybe limited) development ability with playgrounds.
Didn’t go far enough, never does. But I’m not unhappy. don’t care about apples pro apps, would be cool but I use Luma for video and I’m not a musician. I definitely didn’t want macos on the iPad, but like the apparently greater implementation with sidecar etc with continuity.
interested to see the iCloud+ stuff, especially the ‘tor’ type safari thing.
I dunno. The folks I know with Pro 12.9 buy it purely for screen size. No need for Pro features at all.
Yep, the large screen is the reason I went for a Pro.
What the heck were they thinking about putting 16gb RAM into an iPad for then?
This is where all the FCP rumours stemmed from, and it didn’t deliver….
So again my question is, why on earth put a heap of RAM into a device that will never utilise it?
This is where all the FCP rumours stemmed from, and it didn’t deliver….
So again my question is, why on earth put a heap of RAM into a device that will never utilise it?
Still love my iPad, but totally agree with what you’re saying, maybe they had a crap load of M1 chips and ram lying around, Tim Cook will do anything to cut cost.
If only he could put on a decent event, iOS crap iPados crap and the rest crap