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iPad Pro Hands-on Makes the Case for Productivity Uses, Apple Pencil Is Excellent
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The apple pencil says hi. Photo editing and graphic design is Adobe's strong point. This iPad Pro/Apple Pencil is right up their alley. I wouldn't be shocked if Apple worked directly with them on it.
Yes, we're stuck here in reality, where things work the way they do for reasons. This whole world didn't just materialize out of thin air this way 5 minutes ago completely at random with no apparent reason behind anything.
Look, sure, in a thousand years, no one will need to see file systems. Artificial intelligence & quantum computing should be capable enough to write and rewrite new, efficient software for you on the fly as needed, optimized for every step of what you're trying to accomplish and discard it just as quickly, and the idea of sitting in a chair and interfacing with a machine banging memorized commands into a typewriter won't even be a memory. You'll tell the OS what you want to design and it'll research and do most of the work for you, and ask you how much creative input you really feel you must have in the process.
In the mean time:
Mice are often the superior input method.
Keyboards are often the superior input method.
Drawing on-screen with a precise stylus is often the superior input method.
Easily configurable, customizable, serviceable hardware AND software are far more powerful than hardware and software that are not.
Billions and billions of dollars have been spent by companies trying to acquire some approximation of these 4 concepts. The design/engineering world awaits a computer company to comprehend this and build it.
Which one is it?
You really hate the iPad Pro (and quite possibly anything Apple)?
You really love the SB4 (and everything Windows/Android)?
You really hate when others like something that you don't?
You really hate when others do not like what you love?
You really love going to Apple sites to tell people how the products you use are better than Apple products?
Your livid (pounding on the table mad) that Apple is releasing another product?
All the above?
Have a great day, and enjoy those products you love to use.
There you go, here are two pro uses here that most people on the site don't know about. They don't realise that pro users pay A LOT of money for a device that does one specific job. Slate Digital have been selling touch screens for $6000 that only control Pro Tools and nothing else - the iPad pro (whilst not quite as big as that) is 100x more versatile and feature rich with a much better screen too.
It seems that you are pretty upset that Apple is releasing the iPad Pro.
What gives?
Why so mad?
Actually, there's a lot of professional businesses around the world that would fly in the face of your entire post.
You go to absurd extremities about 'AI and Quantum Computing' to try and dismiss my post, but you just seem hurt and upset. Would you like a cookie?
If he was, is a combination of ios and a stylus not the solution. Its like half admitting he was correct.
Its like apple copied the surface, but wanted to control the apps via the appstore and maximise the profits.
Have you seen some of the utterly astounding art people have created on an iPad without a pointing device?
I do get your point (pardon the pun) but with the iPad pro there will be a very precise pointing device available. I'd welcome it, actually putting pen to screen, to the exact point you're looking at and aiming for, can easily be as accurate as any mouse.
Aw, you care about my personal feelings, and aren't just flinging ad hominems. How sweet.
None of the above.
It's a growing disappointment, that Apple's increasingly got more resources and ability and experience than anyone to actually build the machine that would cause the biggest shift in how design/engineering/manufacturing/architecture/construction function, literally reshaping the work and downstream products of the world...
...but are instead are content to relegate the tablet to an oversized PDA, and leave the big strides in development of the advantages of tablet computing to, of all companies, Microsoft. MS is in no way there yet, & may repeat their performance from a decade ago and screw it all up in some new way, but at least they have the vision. Meanwhile Schiller repeats absurdities about how a full OS doesn't work on screens of any size in some unrealistic all-or-nothing concept of usage, and so they sit on their hands, letting countless major innovation vectors whizz past, clinging to the status quo.
This maturing & getting conservative kills companies.
Garbage? Are you serious? Here is an objective review that is at odds with your pronouncement: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-ipad-stylus/
Do you mind explaining your reasons for drawing this conclusion?
I get what you're saying but creating "art" and using pshop for production are 2 different things.
I'm not mad. Just find it funny that people think a first gen iPad Pro will beat the Surface. At the same time, everyone is entitled to their opinion but that doesn't mean I won't share mine
The only exiting thing of this is the pencil. So I rather wait for tis feature to trickle down to the ipad Air line.
Completely agree, I use Photoshop and Illustrator on a daily basis and I'd be delighted to use fully featured versions of these on a nice big iPad screen with a good stylus, reclining on the sofa, blethering to the wife while she watches whatever godawful nonsense she's currently into on the telly. Instead of me being in the office and communicating with her with iMessage.
I can foresee absolutely no issues with using those apps with a 12 inch screen and a precision stylus provided Adobe did a good job of making the iOS apps, they need be no different in operation to their desktop counterparts other than interface changes.