iPad Where are we heading with the Ipad "Pro" replacing the laptop?

[Digitalguy]

The funny thing is that it’s the opposite for me. I have been using my iPad Pro for tasks which couldn’t be done on my work laptop for many years now. Airplay mirroring (we would only start getting miracast dongles late last year), annotating on pdf documents (teachers have to first open pdfs in edge?), scanning documents and just playing nice with my iPhone overall.

Some other reasons I prefer using my iPad over my windows laptop during meetings.

1) I can use the camera to scan QR codes, while the smart Keyboard Folio makes it easier to type in responses unlike my other colleagues who are thumbing them out on their smartphones.

2) Form factor makes it better for use in the lap in portrait mode. Longer battery life and always-on 4g as well.

For the things I do, the iPad is just faster to access, and I don’t have bloated windows getting in the way of what I need to do.

I have been using Miracast since 2013 with both Windows 8.1 devices and Samsung galaxy phones, without any dongle. And I have been annotating pdfs since 2012, with a Samsung Windows convertible (with 3G by the way). But since Apple caught up with the introduction of the pencil I have also, and lately mainly, used my ipads pro to annotate pdfs... I don't live in the Apple ecosystem though... my main phone is a samsung and my main PCs run Windows
PS for some things Ipads are faster and nicer while Windows stands in the way, while for others it's ipados that stands in the way and Windows works much more effectively....

 

[ericwn]

Apple’s not in the business of providing cheap laptops, are they? No.

Further the low end of laptops- netbooks - got swallowed whole by tablets, a long tome ago. The tablet will continue to eat up the laptop segment until it’s pretty much high spec users. This will accelerate further and further.

Apples cheaper notebooks are where the iPad Pro is price wise. The tablet market as a whole is in decline, except for the iPad which in most countries IS the tablet market or absolutely dominates it. Chromebooks and iPads replaced netbooks to a degree, and in many places you see Chromebooks now dominate the cheap space.

The main private computer platform is the smartphone, outselling tablets years after year.

 

[ericwn]

Many people seem to be offended by the idea of the Ipad Pro veering into macbook territory. But I believe that Apple is preparing for a world where a laptop is a very high end product owned mainly by professional users - and the Ipad "Pro" is probably the hub of a home digital network mainly implemented by AR and IOT (glasses, Homepod2, and many other ithings.)

Read more here on the AR aspect of it:

Mobile Phones and Laptops will be extinct - Hello Augmented Reality! - Prabin Joel

When I was a child, I was told that the world you see is not real. I grew up to confirm that the world I see is indeed real. But, I grew up further to understand that the world I see can be augmented. Yes! I can design the way I would want to see the objects around.

prabinjoel.com

The iPad Pro is a niche device in the iPad segment and the big show product whose halo is supposed to reach down to the entry level devices that sell way more often, together with the mid-field.

If the augmented reality stuff comes in the form of glasses, an iPhone might be needed to do the processing for it. Mobile phones are going nowhere in the near future.