When people pay $1500+ for a "computing" device with Magic keyboard and trackpad they are going to have basic expectations of what it can do whether warranted or not and Apple certainly isn't discouraging those expectations.
Exactly, this is the point right here. For the price one pays, the device should be able to do it all, and it can't.
depends on what you are doing. I have a AMD threadripper/Nvidia 4090 workstation, M1 Max MBP 16 with 64 GB RAM. I can use an extra device in my workflow, it came down to MBA Vs iPad Pro. I picked an iPad Pro, and had to adapt to the device. Best decision I ever made, I can do code reviews, launch visual studio from github in safari, run code, pretty much take it anywhere and have access to my workflow. To me MBA was inferior experience, low quality screen, not much more capable for what I need from the device. I couldnt care less about file system.
I'll bite. What IDE are you using to do all this code review and how do you get visual studio on there?
Those are unrealistic expectations. It really couldn’t get any more simple than that.
The ads tell you that it may be able to fly. That's the issue.
This is an example of what’s wrong. Your opinion of what it should be is meaningless. The only thing that matters is what it is.
No, they don’t. And now you are blatantly lying.
That's fine, and it's why the top end of the iPad market is completely stagnant. But I agree.
You’re clearly just mad because this billion dollar company that knows exactly what they are doing isn’t making a product exactly the way that you want it. Maybe you should write them a letter and give them a piece of your mind.
Hahaha okay.
I use github, you can access visual studio in safari with github.dev, and github spaces is free for 30-60 hours a month to execute or validate code. I use mostly Python and C++, with occasional swift or C. All my code is synced and triggered with github/CICD actions. Its pretty easy to sync between my MBP/Linux workstation or if i boot to windows on my linux workstation. I use free Termius on Ipad pro for terminal, which is amazing considering I can maintain all my commands/activity accross Linux and MBP in single place. My MBP and Linux Workstation pretty much run on Max load, Here is sample snapshot from my MBP working on a 300GB Data set, and taxing 80% CPU and 80% GPU. I have Jupyter environment setup for inference or testing, which I pretty much use with my iPad Pro in bed. I had a severe car accident an year ago, with head and neck injuries. iPad Pro is more portable, and top heavy, which fits my ergonomic needs.
Nobody is ever going to confuse an iPhone for a computer or what a computer can do. Screen size is different, Apple never shows iPhone with external keyboard even though it works, and there is no pointer. Put a MacBook Air and an an iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard side by side and they look very similar with a similar price and all the same applications names.
lol - the copy even says "Desktop Class Apps" - that's laughable.Hahaha okay.
Apple introduces next-generation iPad Pro, supercharged by the M2 chip
The new iPad Pro features superfast Wi-Fi 6E, ProRes video capture, a next-level Apple Pencil hover experience, and powerful features in iPadOS 16.www.apple.com
You have to admit though, that not everyone has the same professional needs. Some of us have corporate environs with which we have to develop. So we need a full fledged dev environment with smart card abilities. So then what? That's what I mean. Just because you can make it work with all this convolution, doesn't mean everyone can.
Mad is doing a lot of work in that statement. I would say that I am not mad at all. I was disappointed, but that is why I buy old iPad Pros now that are fine for what I ask them to do. Which ain't much. It's a companion device to my Macbook. Just like I don't ask my Macbook to game--that's my 4060 laptop.
To sell iPads. My point was that those ads were practically deceptive marketing. Deceptive marketing that, while less than it was back then, is still being used by Apple.
I don't see many smart card abilities today; half the world has moved to the cloud and lot of workflows don't need dedicated machines. If you have niche cases that need hardware smart card abilities or hardware dongles, it need dedicated devices with peripheral support. Like I said, do what works for you, its funny people hate on iPad like you cant do real work. It's much more valuable, the moment you stop making it a laptop, and use it to provide solutions to problems. The common theme with the iPad Pro is that people buy an iPad Pro searching for a use case or problem, not buy for a need. For my needs MBA is like a toy, I rather have an ipad Pro, which I use heavily to architect solutions, with an Apple pencil, rather than mouse or a keyboard.
So your advice is to get my massively large employer to no longer use smart cards? Because that toy, as you call it, can do all of that and more--where any iPad Pro cannot.
Nobody is "mad". I just find it interesting that Apple has hit a dead end on iPad Pro and they just keep digging. A base iPad is all anyone actually "needs" given the capabilities of iPadOS yet Apple continues to push the iPad Pro hardware without addressing the software. This years iPad Pro hardware will outshine even the Mac with OLED screen and with Magic Keyboard cost more, yet it is still stuck with the same crippled OS and closed application ecosystem. The discrepancy between hardware and software has never been more glaring on a product line than it is with iPad Pro. That is the point not what we want or expect.
No. Use whatever works with your employer. I don't understand why people get emotional with FOMO purchases and then look for problems/uses to justify emotional purchases or get disappointed if they can't come up with valid reasons months later. Buy something, evaluate it, and send it back within the return window if it is not what is needed.
Exactly, now we are in agreement. That was my entire point. The iPad Pro is a professional device for you.
