This is the most frustrated I think I’ve been with Apple, maybe ever.
The whole thing with Apple is supposed to be that you buy into the ecosystem, so that you have ultimate compatibility, but then they keep artificially making products that aren’t even a year old obsolete and unable to use new accessories. This isn’t new, but this is by far the most egregious.
Seeing this case not being listed as compatible with the m2 iPad pros made me frustrated. When the Magic Keyboard first came out, it was compatible with the last one, even if the fit wasn’t perfect.
The pro pencil being limited to the new air and pro is outright outrageous. I have an iPad specifically because I love to draw. I do design for work and wish I could use proper cad (or even better revit, but that’s not even on the Mac). I just bought a new iPad last year because I finally wanted to take advantage of Apple silicon. Why the hell am I buying a new Apple product when literally a year later they are gonna stop making accessories that are compatible with it, just to force people to buy new products? It’s totally arbitrary, and I’m sure someone will say, “oh but it has this new tech that Apple couldn’t make it compatible with older models”… ********. There is no world where that is true. Not for the freakin pencil… I’m hoping it’s just poor language on the Apple Store app, because otherwise…
I don’t know how to justify buying into this system anymore. A 130$ accessory is bad enough, but making people who want to take advantage of it drop another $1000 is highway robbery. If they don’t announce full compatibility with MacOS apps at wwdc or something major to bring it in line with an actual productive device (which I’m sure if they do will be limited to M4) I might be done with iPad.