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Apple to Release iPad Pro Smart Keyboard With Trackpad in 2020

They could really use a larger iPad device that has a clever convertible stand like MS made for that one Surface model.

So many great iPad uses for even larger screens, but a very good 1st party stand starts to become very necessary as it gets bigger.

(Please don't make this stand $1,000 Apple)
 
Stella said:
Speaking for myself: Because the software I need to use isn't available for the iPad. Also, iOS lacks the necessary functionality I need out an operating system, but I can find this in Mac OS.

I just can't do my work on iOS, it's lacking in far too many areas.
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Speaking only for myself, iOS and macOS shouldn’t be an either/or argument in this thread. An earlier poster wants to be able to use the R programming language on an iPad. I don’t anticipate Apple allowing that...ever. So for him, a Mac is his only real choice. If you can’t do your work on an iPad then you need a Mac and I believe Apple is slowly regaining some balance in that arena. The iPad and the Mac both have equal reasons for existing. The trick, or quandary, question or whatever is...can Apple figure it out and grasp how important both are to their future even while the iPhone runs away with sales and revenue? I think Apple tested the waters by withholding updates to the Mac mini and the Mac Pro to see how loud and hard the pushback would be...and it got pretty loud.

For me, the Mac is still essential and probably always will be even while the majority of my computing has moved to an iPad. Both exist for a reason and a purpose. I hope that Apple deciding to move to in-house CPUs is evidence that they view the Mac and macOS as strategically important to their business, otherwise why do all that extra work when they could just muddle along with Intel or AMD?
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turbineseaplane said:
They could really use a larger iPad device that has a clever convertible stand like MS made for that one Surface model.

So many great iPad uses for even larger screens, but a very good 1st party stand starts to become very necessary as it gets bigger.

(Please don't make this stand $1,000 Apple)
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I have a Surface RT (yeah, I know), the kickstand is nice. I would like to see a 15” iPad with a convertible stand as well, something to give me more angles than what Apple gives with their Smart Cover origami schtick.
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arvinsim said:
So this is the ARM laptop that the rumors were referring to.
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RevTEG said:
Why? I love PadOS. I even prefer my iOS workflow. While my MacBook Pro collects dust, I run a company from my iPad Pro.
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Nice! This is the type of statements I’m interesting in hearing.
Bad timing on getting on board, as a new one is already coming out... but as a recent new iPad Pro user aimed at artistic tasks, I’m very curious to know how people use it.
If you don’t chiming in about which apps you use and which one you can’t leave without I’m all ears.
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Roscorito said:
I swear, they’ll have built this thing up to a full desktop before they give us pro apps. Apple please, give us Final Cut/Logic/Motion on ipados!
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It is overwhelmingly funny to say iPadOS as one word all lowercase! Never thought of that... ipados, it’s totally Spanish.
 
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I’m guessing this would require a major software update? Because the way mouse input works in iOS 13 is not “polished” as yet.
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Probably why they hid mouse support in accessibility in iOS 13. Judging by the fact iPad got its own OS last year (at least in name) I think we can some major feature updates going forward.
 
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Trackpad support would make the iPad so much more useful to me. I use the iPad for hours every day, to take notes at work, read, play games... But I still fire up my MacBook to work with Office apps - Word, Excel, etc. I don't like trying to select text with my finger when using a keyboard. I find it so much easier to grab text with a cursor.

Hopefully the iPad interface will still work exactly the same when working with your finger. It might even be nice to be able to toggle between touchscreen and keyboard/cursor.

We'll see what comes, but I'm very hopeful. Now if they could just add a real file system, to make web app development and testing possible. I realize that's not a popular use case for the iPad, but it would make it a do-all-I-need machine.
 
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RevTEG said:
As a company, I ran away from the iPad Pro.
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Fixed it for ya.

On a serious note, I guess one could run a company with emails, calendar and a browser. In the end you are still using an inferior media consumption device heading towards a laptop clone being marketed as "pro", with an inferior OS.
 
Aloshiki said:
Ah yes, let me go to macbook and use an inferior pen displays for creating my art, rather than using the beautiful 120HZ iPad Pro, 9ms and God Tier Stylus. Why not kill off the mac? Since the iPad Pro is a better product...
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Apple crippling laptop displays have little to do with being an inferior product. If they really pushed macOS & macbooks like they should have, your tablet would be seen as a massive cash grab, more than what they are already.

Most serious artists are already aware any Cintiq tablet will wipe the floor with your Chuck Norris Tier Stylus ipad without breaking a sweat.
 
nvmls said:
Apple crippling laptop displays have little to do with being an inferior product. If they really pushed macOS & macbooks like they should have, your tablet would be seen as a massive cash grab, more than what they are already.

Most serious artists are already aware any Cintiq tablet will wipe the floor with your Chuck Norris Tier Stylus ipad without breaking a sweat.
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Most serious artists use a combination of the two. They start on the iPad and finish on a Wacom, wise boy. No Cintiq has 120HZ display. No Cintiq Stylus matches the Apple Pencil, artists know this. They are already switching to the iPad Pro. Most Japanese artists use the iPad Pro. It has Clip Studio and Photoshop, why wouldn't they? If Apple releases a 15 or 16 inch iPad Pro, Wacom is history. Their products are overpriced ($400 non laminated pen display). I love drawing on the iPad Pro. You don't need to spend massive amounts of money to get a 16gb macbook when the Photoshop iPad app and Procreate exist. Congrats, you played yourself.
 
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anaudiopro said:
And so it begins... Blurring the lines. Can’t we just let a Mac be a Mac? I miss the days of focus on COMPUTERS.
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Gotta love the Internet. People getting angry over a product becoming more functional.

This idea that laptops and tablets are fundamentally different products has always been absurd. They are clearly going to converge, and probably should have already.
 
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Weird that the article doesn't even bring up the fact that iPadOS doesn't even support a mouse (apart from severely crippled Accessibility feature). Blah, blah, blah about a trackpad and not a word about a possible update to iPadOS that fully utilizes a pointing device. If there IS a trackpad, and full support, then bluetooth mice should work, too!
 
dmylrea said:
Weird that the article doesn't even bring up the fact that iPadOS doesn't even support a mouse (apart from severely crippled Accessibility feature). Blah, blah, blah about a trackpad and not a word about a possible update to iPadOS that fully utilizes a mouse. If there IS a trackpad, and full support, then bluetooth mice should work, too!
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Not weird that it doesn’t mention it. Obviously we all know that ipad is touch based and doesn’t have a cursor (other than in the emulator on Mac, or in the tvOS variant, or when using the accessibility option).

Equally obvious: if they are going to sell a keyboard/trackpad folio they are going to make big changes to how mice work on iOS.
 
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This mixed with what they said in their whatever thing yesterday makes me believe they have some pretty big plans for iPad OS 14 / 15
 
Aloshiki said:
Most serious artists use a combination of the two. They start on the iPad and finish on a Wacom, wise boy. No Cintiq has 120HZ display. No Cintiq Stylus matches the Apple Pencil, artists know this. They are already switching to the iPad Pro. Most Japanese artists use the iPad Pro. It has Clip Studio and Photoshop, why wouldn't they? If Apple releases a 15 or 16 inch iPad Pro, Wacom is history. Their products are overpriced ($400 non laminated pen display). I love drawing on the iPad Pro. You don't need to spend massive amounts of money to get a 16gb macbook when the Photoshop iPad app and Procreate exist. Congrats, you played yourself.
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Procreate (and every other iOS app in existence) is developed on a Mac running macOS. So if we're going to get cute with snarky remarks, then killing off the mac would kill off the iPad (and the iPhone). Furthermore I seriously doubt developers would want to code big complicated apps entirely on 12" iPad screens even with optional smart keyboards. So even if Apple made XCode available to iOS chances are most developers would stick with their Macs.

So let's just stop throwing mud at each other. It's pointless.

And yes, I agree. Wacom's products are terrible compared to iPad Pro + Apple Pencil. Every time I see a Cintiq in the wild (we have several here at our studio) I shudder at how poorly they've kept up with technological advances. They have truly been outclassed by Apple. I just wish Apple would make a 30" Cintiq killer already. 10-12" is just too small for my likes.
 
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