This iPad Pro is supposed to be usable for 'Pro Uses' You have the regular iPad for 'Consumer Uses'. There's no 'Pro' who earns money on what they do who can't handle a PC file system who stays in business for long.
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This iPad Pro is supposed to be usable for 'Pro Uses' You have the regular iPad for 'Consumer Uses'. There's no 'Pro' who earns money on what they do who can't handle a PC file system who stays in business for long.
Pros that need the hardware support that means we can walk into a store or they sent us a new device whilst ours is being fixed. That's what pros need as much as the latest tech. Our livelihoods depends on things working. Downtime is not something we want. Ever.
What a person can do and what they will end up doing can be quite different.
At one time, when the Ford Model T first went into production, many people could ride horses, but eventually they sold the horse and started driving an automobile or tractor instead. Many stayed in business. A tiny percentage still ride horses (jockeys, rich girls, etc.) Most professionals don't anymore.
A visible PC file system is just another form of "faster horse".
See the captioned photos of the slides posted earlier in the thread. That's CPU/graphics faster than 80%/90% of portable PCs sold in the last 12 months.
Yes, but can you do it and still be able to hold it without a 1st degree burn?
And you can't get the 4k video into the iPad anyway.
One wonders if this isn't sheer excess. Without a truly comfortable proper keyboard taking advantage of the speed may be next to impossible. Oh well, it's a fat and happy Apple that will continue to rake in the cash.
I was thinking the same till they showed the internals, the logic board places the a9x bang in the middle of the iPad. Smart moveYes, but can you do it and still be able to hold it without a 1st degree burn?
For me the big issue is in doing web development. I've toyed with it and with various apps quite a bit but there are just a lot of trade offs that make it pretty cumbersome to do anything that includes server side programming.
There's no software to really produce anything. Maybe this will change over the years but I can't take this thing seriously with the current app store content.
For those who are interested, I wrote a blog post about that the iPad pro could mean for pro photographers (like me!)
http://www.satureyes.com/blog/2015/9/what-the-ipad-pro-and-apple-pencil-could-mean-for-photographers
http://www.satureyes.com/blog/2015/9/what-the-ipad-pro-and-apple-pencil-could-mean-for-photographers
Apple needed pencil to sell this as any kind of pro device. They also have you reaching up from the (trackpad lacking) keyboard to navigate on screen. That was another thing we were never going to see. It is no competition to either Surface Pro or laptop without both.
Essentially it is becoming Mantra across the web, without a full OS and a file system they will miss a market segment that is happening and will continue to grow.
I have to agree. 3D touch will transform interaction with IOS and apps. No big deal today, but 6 months from now any IOS device w/o 3D Touch will be handicapped. Apple is pushing hard to get customers to upgrade yearly. This feature will push a lot of hold uts to upgrade at least once.
Full Office 2016, including specialty apps like Visio and Project. Browser plugins. VMware for running other OS's on it.
More likely they're going to slap IOS on your Mac.When they slap OSX on that bad boy, then you can take my money
I fear you are right. Or some messed up hybrid, like Microsoft tried with Windows 8.
Xcode.
As a developer, I usually have to carry an iPhone (or two), an iPad and a MacBook laptop. If Xcode ran on an iPad (the Pro would likely be faster at building apps than last years MBA 11), I could leave the laptop at home and use the iPhone as the lldb console for testing apps on the iPad, or vice versa. No more inaccurate x86 Simulator, or waiting for apps to load over USB to the iPad for testing.
According to Apple, there are around 1M iOS developers, so it's not like this is a non-existent market segment.
It doesn't really matter what apps may or may not be developed. There is critical functionality missing, and that has been (and is) the ability for 'pro' users to get content into the device.
Is this a generation of whining? As a developer I have to carry a laptop, a phone, oh the horrors. I bought a bag to carry them all. My shoulder and neck are strained with the extra 5 lbs.