How many of you guys are using the iPad pro as your daily driver? Your go-to devices?
I honestly gave it a real go but got extremely frustrated when using the keyboard. Like Tim Cook said, laptops with touchscreen's fail because the user has to reach up and over the keyboard to use it. The same thing applies to the iPad Pro ironically, I found using the keyboard without a mouse just not very comfortable or even that useable. As a programmer who now predominantly uses a Cloud based IDE, I thought the iPad Pro, like my ChromeBook would be a good fit for me but I quickly found the entire experience daunting without a mouse. Hopefully Jail Breaking it and installing the mouse drivers will fix my issues.
I'm also having a real problem not being able to run the apps that I need to in the background, like a terminal app for instance. This is an absolute must for me as I practically live inside of a remote terminal that's connected to multiple development servers. I want to be able to start a compile job and than minimize it. Running one in the dual app view isn't possible yet as that feature still has very limited support, as in, I see only 110 apps that actually support it. Also, not all apps actually run in the background when in dual app view, as once the focus is off of it, they to pause, even though you can still see it.
The lack of a decent file management system is also a huge problem for me and I absolutely hate, I mean I really hate that apps manage and even store their own files, this is just poor design. Also when sharing a file between another app, you don't send the file but create a copy so I have this problem of many instances of the same file existing on the system. This is especially apparent when using a browser. A central document management system in which all files are stored and apps access using a common system to open or save a document would fix this problem. Till than though the iPad Pro is basically useless to me as a content creation system or work tool.
External display support just sucks, not only does iOS not support the resolution of my monitor when mirroring the desktop, which is another problem, I want to extend the desktop not mirror it, but the DPI is so comically huge that it's pretty much useless. My little Tab S2 8" from Samsung is a 100x better at this as not only does it support everything, but I can change the DPI to reflect that of a normal looking desktop UI. I can also extend the desktop using a great little app called Second Dispay. Having a second monitor is an absolute must for any of my productivity computers and the iPad Pro just isn't one of those at this moment.
There are also to many UI inconsistencies and bugs still for me to even consider using the iPad Pro for anything but content consuming, media and light gaming. Maybe in 6 months when hopefully a lot of my concerns are ironed out but I'm not holding my breath. It took Apple 8 years to get inner app sharing working properly, more than 1GB of RAM, multitasking (which is still no where near that of a desktop computer), etc. iOS is nothing more than a mobile OS and as such using it as my everyday driver would be a lesson in futility. Not to say the iPad Pro doesn't have it uses, I use mine as a night stand media player, magazine reader and some light computing like answering emails, etc.