Serious work is that of a fortune 1000 knowledge worker in the year 2015. Someone who spends their time doing reports, graphs, analysis, in the middle of business processes. The context is differentiated between a physician, cop, construction worker, etc who have important and hard jobs but is not in the middle of corporate business processes often these days requiring access to multiple middle ware systems.
The fatal mistake you make is assuming that the bulk of the workforce are confined to a desk in any industry. This is true for financial (banks) and software development, and thats about all. Thats a small percentage of industry.
The majority of fortune 500 companies would have the bulk of their workforce out in the field.
Manufacturing? About 10% or less of the workforce would be desk bound. The majority would be responsible for running the manufacturing equipment or maintaining it. So 90% or more are mobility based users who walk around and don't have a desk to put their laptop on.
Mining? As above
Utilities (telecommunication, electricity)? As above (I'm doing consulting work for a utility, they have over a thousand employees and less than 100 stationed at their office where the desktops are)
Oil & Gas? As above
So basically your perception of that a fortune 1000 user needs to be doing graphs analysis etc is only representative of the 1% of the workers in corporate, and what may shock you is that the top business analytics are now available on yes, wait for it, the iPad....
Have a look at RoamBI at
http://roambi.com which is based on a ERP BI tools. Ultimately when it comes to fortune 1000 reporting, the volume of data they generate is too large for spreadsheets and may come from 10 or 12 different systems, so they use business intelligence tools to combine the data. With BI tools these days, you define the reports/graphs you want to see based on the different data sources, BI tools then consolidate the data using queries to the different systems and generate the reports for you.
So in short, all you have done is show, that what little you pretend to know about fortune 1000 companies is irrelevant.
Your thinking reflects what other pros think about the iPP that the only pro use is as a Mac accessory in place of Wacom Cintiq but you lose portability compared to a device like Surface Pro 4, Sony Vaio Z Canvas, etc., higher cost of needing two devices and screen mirror latency. Hoops people can avoid jumping through if only Apple offer something like a 12" rMB with touch and pen layer and optionally add 180 degree hinge with autorotation or 360 degree so keyboard is not in the way.
Not at all. The device is still relevant to artists as a stand alone unit, I was merely pointing out that it is relevant at a pro tool for photography because people have complained that its not a pro tool for photography. Its just not pro in the way they expect and just not as a stand alone unit. Given the investment in Wacom, it isn't actually as expensive as most people make it out to be when you consider the applications. Wacom Cintiq's are priced the same as the 32GB iPad Pro and you still need about $100 worth of cables to attach to a Mac. If you want the 32GB Cintiq Companion which runs android, it costs the same as a 128GB iPad Pro. In short, Microsoft don't need to be scared, but Wacom should be.
I would love to see a Hybrid out of Apple, but if you look at the surface, its a great laptop and a very mediocre tablet. The iPad Pro is just a tablet. Its a good one, large for some (depending on your preference). Its not a poor laptop and a good tablet, its just a tablet. Ultimately Apple won't produce something that is both until OSX or iOS can do both well. The hardware Apple has been working on for ages (if you look at the patents from the last 5 years). But just touch enabling OSX would be a poor experience. If you look at Windows 10, MS had Windows 8.1 which was horrible. Windows 10 is a drastic improvement on Windows 8.1, but I think part of what makes it such a big improvement was how bad 8.1 was. The native app switching between desktop and mobile versions isn't great. You'd expect it to switch from a Office 2016 to a Office Mobile version when you go to tablet mode, instead it just gives you the tablet enabled version of Office 2016 which is slightly larger icons and still terrible for touch. As an OS, you still find yourself needing the mouse too much in tablet mode and needing to touch the screen in mouse mode. It's a compromise no matter what way you look. Personally I'd just be happy with an OSX version that switches from OSX to iPad when you pull the screen off, but I don't see that happening
