“In the past I’ve barked about how I didn’t need or want an iPad Pro,” Jim Lynch reports for CIO. “I thought I was content with my iPad Air 2, so I more or less wrote off the iPad Pro. Well I finally bought one, and I’m here to tell you that I couldn’t have been more wrong about the iPad Pro.”
“Lying to myself about my true purpose in entering the Apple Store (I told myself I was just there to look around and I wouldn’t buy anything), I immediately headed for the tables that held the iPad Pro. I picked one up and started using it,” Lynch reports. “A few minutes later I was the proud owner of a space grey, Wi-Fi only, 128GB iPad Pro. I also managed to snag an Apple Pencil.”
“So I headed home with my iPad Pro, loaded with guilt after all the dismissive remarks I had made in previous posts on this blog. After all, hadn’t I written this thing off already? What the heck was I doing bringing one home?” Lynch reports. “Well sometimes you just have to admit that you were wrong and that’s definitely the case with the iPad Pro.”
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MacDailyNews Take: iPad Pro truly is an amazing tablet, the best in the world, and it sure does turn heads when used in public!
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Thats why you don’t talk something down from Apple until you see in person and use it!
No Kidding! I now use my iPad Pro 80%+ of the time. I happen to be doing some CAD work on my MBP right now, so am posting on it, but it is rare that I even check web sites on my MB any more.
iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil, and a growing collection of ever more powerful apps for getting real work done more efficiently than on a traditional computer should mean a bright future.
Glad to see some of the nay sayers are coming around.
From article:
“Frankly, Apple would do very well to include four speakers in the next version of the iPad Air because they do make a big difference.”
Why do writers continue to make this suggestion? Has he looked at how much space the iPad Pros speaker assemblies take up? They sound great because they are just 4 little speakers jammed up against a grill. Don’t think Apple could reproduce the same sound in the confines of an iPad Air enclosure.
Well others have done it. HTC for instance puts speakers on both ends of its flash ship phones, and makes them front facing. Front facing makes an even greater difference. Even with the iPad Pro speaker system, I often find myself tilting one side or the other so that I can hear sound projected directly at me as opposed to the sides.
YouTube is filled with videos by art professionals raving about their work with the Pencil and the Pro, in particular in tandem with Procreate. I’ve been taking lessons from all these videos, and they’re right, Procreate combined with the Pencil is a gamechanger, this combination alone makes the iPad Pro revolutionary.
It is a fantastic tablet with a fantastic input device.. The pencil. …
But needs a CORE file management and organization system for true pro use…
and Full fledged, full featured applications… Not snippets.
Today i was trying to make a simple poster for a friends kid composed of some pictures and some sketches and effects..etc….
..i discovered that there is no native way of knowing file type size, dpi, and pixiel size on ios..
I had to purchase 3 different apps…(actual pixal, print to size , i resize) to be able to at least see the size specs…..and even with these 3 apps it was way limited.
On top i used a combination of Adobe Touch and Pixelmator and Procreate to design the poster .
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At its present state..IMHO, the work flow for most content creation is way too fragmented. And in some cases not even possible not to resort to osx.
I hope Apple address these huge shortcomings IF they want to have a true pro platform.
Ps.. If im a missing somthing about osx and file size, picture size, dpi, pixel ..etc on osx please advice…
Thanx
Oops … Sorry i meant ios not osx …
I realized you were talking about iOS – but you inadvertently brought up a good point – how *would* you do what you mentioned natively on OS X?
Could you have made your poster with just the apps that ship with OS X?
Or did you need to use apps you had purchased?
Yes Boton… I could have done everything on photoshop in OSX…or windows.
I could get detailed info about pic type, size, etc through finder and file info…. I could name/ rename my resourses/files as they made sense to my project and orgnized them according to my work flow.
And in photoshop osx i could resize each individual component and get info on pixel, canvas and dpi, inches…etc
Plus since photoshop on osx is WAY more comprehensive than any single app on ios can Even come close to.. I would not need to resort to other applications to get the desired functions….
Hence i feel the vacume of no file management in ios…. And no full featured comprehrnsive Application on ios…….Specially on iPad Pro.
Prior to ipad pro though.. I would have had the added big problem of precision input and control over cursor.. And somewhat screen size…… Ipad Pro and the Pencil really make a huge differance…. And of course with pro we have a much better processor and graphics capability than other Ipads.
Im counting on the the day that all handicaps will be gone on the ios and ipad pro. …
Maybe apple should come up with an iosPro… A more robust ios, addressing theses issues for an upgrade fee… Ill pay for it in a blink of an eye.
Those who dont have the need can stick to regular free ios
That is my feeling as well. The hardware is fantastic, the software needs to grow.
I completely agree with this guy!
Couldn’t agree less. I’m a Logic Studio user and would never expect my iPad to replace a dedicated computer. The sand boxing of data within apps is the basis for the simplicity and security of the iPad. Forcing a central file library is called OSX and not iOS. They would have to completely replace iOS with OS X. That’s would be called a netbook and those died with the advent of the iPad. Your workflow may be inconvenienced but that is due to your very specific interest in your existing workflow. I’ve made dozens of posters and graphics on my iPad using simple tools like pages but I would not expect it to be Indesign. iPad will not become a netbook. That does not mean I can’t record quality music on it and do some professional edits. It just means I’m not going to do post production work with it.
I love my iPad Pro and more so every day. The pencil is cool and we need a good app for handwriting to text conversion. The keyboard needs a software update to be able to use the internal keyboard and Apple iPad keyboard concurrently ASAP. ALL iOS apps iPhone or otherwise need 360° orientation. The iPad Pro itself is 5-star!!!!!
Love my macbook 12, but id have to say my new iPad pro with the pen and keyboard… Its really the do everything device for me now. Absolutely love it.