Mouse/trackpad support!
If Apple wants to people add more ways for people to take iPad Pro seriously as a laptop replacement, they should let us use pointing devices on the plane of the surface the keyboard is on. It's basic ergonomics. Seems like every reviewer has complained about being forced to use the touchscreen. Without an alternative, Apple has painted itself into a gorilla arms corner.
They could theoretically make all iPads compatible with all BT mice/trackpads, or, more likely, they could support only iPad Pro talking to Apple peripherals.
My Samsung NotePRO 12.2 has had mouse/trackpad support for years. I often use a BT keyboard but using a Samsung BT Mouse or Apple Magic Trackpad introduces cursor lag, enough that I rarely use it. It's a strange day when Apple's trackpad works okay for a Samsung device but not at all for an equivalent one from Apple.
So it has to work perfectly. They need to nail the execution like they did with the original mac mouse/cursor interaction. I love that story. In 2017, this seems like a good side project for the ProMotion engineers.
It would not break the bank, or strategy, to turn flip this story into a win, which to make this post relevant to the story, would help argue that iPad is as Pro as Surface. I try not to read too much into the Pro moniker, or beat up Apple about throwing the term around and raising the ire of tech geeks. However, the idea of Pro should be to provide sufficient options for different ways of working and ergonomic options. For professionals and prosumers alike.
/rant
If Apple wants to people add more ways for people to take iPad Pro seriously as a laptop replacement, they should let us use pointing devices on the plane of the surface the keyboard is on. It's basic ergonomics. Seems like every reviewer has complained about being forced to use the touchscreen. Without an alternative, Apple has painted itself into a gorilla arms corner.
They could theoretically make all iPads compatible with all BT mice/trackpads, or, more likely, they could support only iPad Pro talking to Apple peripherals.
My Samsung NotePRO 12.2 has had mouse/trackpad support for years. I often use a BT keyboard but using a Samsung BT Mouse or Apple Magic Trackpad introduces cursor lag, enough that I rarely use it. It's a strange day when Apple's trackpad works okay for a Samsung device but not at all for an equivalent one from Apple.
So it has to work perfectly. They need to nail the execution like they did with the original mac mouse/cursor interaction. I love that story. In 2017, this seems like a good side project for the ProMotion engineers.
It would not break the bank, or strategy, to turn flip this story into a win, which to make this post relevant to the story, would help argue that iPad is as Pro as Surface. I try not to read too much into the Pro moniker, or beat up Apple about throwing the term around and raising the ire of tech geeks. However, the idea of Pro should be to provide sufficient options for different ways of working and ergonomic options. For professionals and prosumers alike.
/rant
