Apple Unveils Stunning New iPad Pro With the World's Most Advanced Display, M4 Chip and Apple Pencil Pro

[cvaldes]

Let's remember what an operating system is: it's a big complicated program that lets multiple other big complicated programs (hopefully) co-exist peacefully on the same system.

If iOS or iPadOS is capable of doing that, that's fine.

Underneath it all, iOS/iPadOS and macOS share much of the same codebase. And let's not forget that "Pro" to Apple is a nebulous adjective. Some people say it's only "Pro" in price. Plenty of evidence for those people.

Anyhow some of these applications are working very well on these iPad Pros. If they didn't I doubt if professionals would be using them. It's not like the iPad Pro is new. They've been around for years and if they were consistently falling short in performance, I'm pretty sure sales would reflect it and the product line would have been canned by now.

Many of the key content creation programs launched with the original iPad Pro: Photoshop, FCP, Logic, etc. For a lot of people the new iPad Pro is a drop-in replacement for an older model to help carry on the same workflow they've had for a while.

Remember that a lot of these aren't devices you'd see someone use in a coffee shop. Many of the sales are to enterprise customers and are used in situations not within the sightline of the average person.

 

[Dr_b_]

Let's remember what an operating system is: it's a big complicated program that lets multiple other big complicated programs (hopefully) co-exist peacefully on the same system.

Remember that a lot of these aren't devices you'd see someone use in a coffee shop. Many of the sales are to enterprise customers and are used in situations not within the sightline of the average person.

"Let's remember what an operating system is?" LOL I get it now you are a troll.

And because we all might have dementia, or other cognitive impairment, obviously, because we aren't praising his lord and savior Tim Apple, lets "Remember that a lot of these aren't devices you'd see someone use in a coffee shop."

 

[cvaldes]

I'm sorry but I haven't been trained to diagnose mental illness. I could guess but it would only be a guess. And that's sort of outside the scope of TPU's purpose even if it was just for entertainment purposes.

How would you describe an operating system? Why isn't iOS/iPadOS good enough?

My guess is that Apple has tried macOS on iPads before in their labs. In fact, they probably routinely test certain functions both directions (iOS functions on macOS, macOS functions on iOS) and sometimes some of those make it to the RTM code tree.

Remember that all iOS and iPadOS applications are coded on Macs. And there are versions of many of these applications offered on multiple operating systems (like Photoshop). And most of these applications run on non-pro versions of iPad.

Laughing off a content application running on iPad Pro simply because the hardware uses iPadOS is puzzling. If Adobe really didn't think Photoshop works on iPad, why would they sell it? For fun? To see how many people buy and don't use it?

 

[trsttte]

M4 in an iPad is baffling to me, would have thought that chip would come in a MacBook first. Then again after all these years I still have no clue what the use of a tablet is, so I admit I'm not the target audience.

Really depends on the tablet and what the OS is able to do, Surface and alikes are usually bashed for sucking as a tablet but they're pretty neat devices that let you whatever you want. There's all sorts of rugged tablets used in industrial applications as well. The iPad though? Yeah, pretty much just a toy because Apple in all it's wisdom refuses to allow it to do anything else.

Many of the key content creation programs launched with the original iPad Pro: Photoshop, FCP, Logic, etc. For a lot of people the new iPad Pro is a drop-in replacement for an older model to help carry on the same workflow they've had for a while.

Remember that a lot of these aren't devices you'd see someone use in a coffee shop. Many of the sales are to enterprise customers and are used in situations not within the sightline of the average person.

Nah, some "pro" "influencers" that never used anything else might lead you to believe that but anyone that does real work is not touching this. For all the great things it can do, there's a bunch of tiny artificial limitations that prevent it from becoming a great tool. An example I saw a couple months was on LTT how they were starting to use an iPad Pro for HDR color grading, it was kind of good but it had a bunch of weird issues that limited it's praticality as well, for them it was still worth it but for a real studio or production house it just isn't.

The majority of ipads in enterprise environments are tax write off that are easy to manage and keep employees happy, just like iphones.

 

[mechtech]

In Canada not including 13% tax

Think I will buy a stand-up freezer first.

 

[Noyand]

Well that's the thing isn't it, their customer base isn't the kind to be interested in specs. The concept of a "pro" tablet running iOS is hilarious in of itself.

To be fair, the pros that Apple is targeting are mostly working in the creative field, and Apple happen to develop two apps that are used by professionals, and they managed to convince Otoy, Maxon, Blackmagic and other to port their apps exclusively on iPadOS.

I can show you a guy who worked for Disney, Amazon, LG etc...and is unironically using the iPad as part of his workflow. I have a yet to see a tattoo artist using a Surface Pro for his sketch.

I'm starting to realize that there's a bit of disconnect between the technically inclined people, and the people who happen to use a computer as a tool, but don't really care about tech that much. In theory, the surface pro should be the absolute darling of that market, but even the people who have a Windows machine as their workhorse, bought the iPad pro instead. The illustrator Loish own a custom PC, and an iPad pro...so it's not even about being an apple sheep, windows tablets just don't seem to appeal that much to that market...

Really depends on the tablet and what the OS is able to do, Surface and alikes are usually bashed for sucking as a tablet but they're pretty neat devices that let you whatever you want. There's all sorts of rugged tablets used in industrial applications as well. The iPad though? Yeah, pretty much just a toy because Apple in all it's wisdom refuses to allow it to do anything else.



Nah, some "pro" "influencers" that never used anything else might lead you to believe that but anyone that does real work is not touching this. For all the great things it can do, there's a bunch of tiny artificial limitations that prevent it from becoming a great tool. An example I saw a couple months was on LTT how they were starting to use an iPad Pro for HDR color grading, it was kind of good but it had a bunch of weird issues that limited it's praticality as well, for them it was still worth it but for a real studio or production house it just isn't.

The majority of ipads in enterprise environments are tax write off that are easy to manage and keep employees happy, just like iphones.

It's being used...just not as a main machine like many seems to assume. I've been in an ad agency where the lead designer used his iPad to sketch, draw some stuff, which ended up being used in a commercial project. The iPad Pro is more of a companion device. Some people just want a digital sketchbook that doesn't feel awkward

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

People forget that Apple dont want any of their devices cannibalizing each other.

They are running some crazy counter balance/complementary plan that requires the customer to purchase an iPhone, an ipad, a Mac and a barrage of accessories.

Thats why we might never see them releasing something like DeX.

 

[Prima.Vera]

The World's advanced display was already released by Samsung almost 15 years ago
What other callous bs is the cult's Marketing going to write, I wonder?

 

[dtoxic]

Pricing depends on market. Visit Apple.com to see prices in your currency.

That said, Apple dominates the premium price segment in the tablet market. They aren't competing with $150 throwaways where the margins are in the pennies.

Not interested,don't even like the brand...just making a comment and see if it will be a out of this world price

 

[Abaidor]

My second wife bought the previous iPad Pro 11" when it came out with its expensive illuminated keyboard/cover.
I struggled to find a use for it as part of my workflow (web development & digital marketing + some Adobe Creative suite but no sketching/drawing) and the lack of proper multiuser support (sucks) ment we needed to buy another even if I wanted to use it occasionally or for fun. But this is not a proper use for the Pro models and in the end an older iPad Air I have is enough (I don't use that either that much).

I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max that I love and a workstation PC with two monitors + a Windows laptop...........I can't see where to fit an iPad - maybe as a third monitor (I have spare monitors already).......

The least Apple should do is to enable proper multiuser support so when buying one the whole family can use. Now, my son says it will be useful in college to take notes with the pen...maybe. For me there is no use at the moment.

 

[Vya Domus]

Here's an interesting question, why can't they make this supposed "professional" tablet dual boot macOS ? It's literally the same hardware. Kind of proves even Apple themselves doesn't take their consumers seriously, because otherwise they wouldn't ship this with just iOS.

 

[remixedcat]

real pros get thinkpads or latitudes and can get 2 or even 3 of them for the price of this iphone with a bigger screen...

the only ppl I see that use ipads in my area are little kids that watch bluey or cocomelon lol... I've not seen one real professional around here use an ipad.

what could even be pro about them??

 

[sephiroth117]

real pros get thinkpads or latitudes and can get 2 or even 3 of them for the price of this iphone with a bigger screen...

the only ppl I see that use ipads in my area are little kids that watch bluey or cocomelon lol... I've not seen one real professional around here use an ipad.

what could even be pro about them??

..or a macbook pro especially if you need xcode.

ipad pro are pro but for select fields, mostly creative, a software developer, a mechanical engineer will have far more limited usage for it, for sure.