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What "Pro" things have you done so far with your Pro?
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Not necessarily true at all. The 9.7" iPad apps stagnated due to lack of developer buy in.
Same thing is a hurdle for the iPad Pro as, to your point, it's just a bigger iPad. Pencil stuff is niche and we are still a long ways from knowing if it's a winner that actually drives device sales.
Pencil coming to iPad Air 3 would help immensely.
I think the stagnation is due to supporting old hardware, even the first gen iPad Mini and iPad 2 are still supported by iOS 9. Look at the specs, pitiful if you want apps that can compete on a technical level with desktops and laptops.
Some developers are only supporting the Air 2 for certain apps (I.e football manager classic only runs on an iPad Air 2) they are cutting vast numbers of potential customers by doing that. If anything they are better off catering for the lowest denominator supported by iOS. It is a problem as new hardware is very limited by old hardware, eliminating the need/want to upgrade. The hardware is on another level to the software and iOS at the moment.
Personally I'd have an iOS Classic 9.9 release that catered for 32 bit iPads and iPhones that was the final iOS upgrade they would receive. Then all 64 bit devices, current, new and future would have iOS10.0 onwards with all the bells and whistles it brings.
That way developers can choose to stop the 32 bit apps at 9.9 and rework and release for 64 bit with more features. If the consumer wants the new version they have the choice to repurchase with additional features, unless the developer wants to include the update for free.
Once you do enough post process on different screens even without color calibration, you get a feel for what white balance would look like according to the histogram and by the general look of the photo. You can also color sample your whites/grays if you were really unsure. If I was really concerned with technical color accuracy, then I would have to edit on a color calibrated screen inside of an actual production studio. If you're out in the field, the iPad Pro is just fine. You could always color calibrate the iPad pro but if you're on the move, it just doesn't make any sense.
They stagnated due to a lack of innovation by devs and something that happens naturally over time. The novelty of a tablet has worn off. There is a point where you have this new shiny device and you download the crap out of the App Store to try anything you can get your hands on. And then there is a point where you've seen it all and you actually start using it instead of playing around with it. That's when you start buying the useful apps. Another thing to note is the way apps are developed. Some apps start out small and grow in features over time. OmniFocus started out quite simple but is now capable of doing about 95 to 99% of what the desktop version can do. We see Microsoft growing Office on the various platforms (iOS, Android, Mac and Windows). Or in other words, current apps are becoming better, they are maturing.
I think one shouldn't underestimate Pencil stuff. It isn't niche at all. Apple launched a huge campaign about creating things like art on Macs and iOS devices, there are a lot of drawing, painting, note taking, photo editing, etc. apps and we have a lot of 3rd party pens/pencils just because Apple didn't have any. From what we've seen thus far are people liking the Apple Pencil over their 3rd party pens/pencils. Not strange since it isn't just a simple matter of creating a bluetooth pen/pencil, you need to make sure the tablet itself allows for this. In case of the iPad Pro this is the faster scanning rate of the display. We need these things to overcome the technical difficulties that are lag and offset.
Definitely.
Works fine for me on the work front; just took two hours of notes in a staff meeting, including taking a picture of a hand out and marking it up during the meeting as well. Very impressive to someone who takes and uses a lot of notes.
IMO iOS is the bottleneck on doing anything "pro". You can't even get a word processor that supports custom template creation. If they added that to Pages and MS Word I'd take it more seriously.
Of course I'm only talking about my own uses; I'm sure it's fine for others and yourself.
Organize my expenses into a budget so I can buy one this coming month?...
I haven´t got one yet, but I am planning on using it to supplement my aging macbook pro. I have tried one though, and for me the screen size helps to annotate PDFs and create legal contracts on word easily.
As some have said it´s just a bigger ipad, but given my old ipad is already a vital part of my workday the extra screen real state seems to improve on it
I haven´t got one yet, but I am planning on using it to supplement my aging macbook pro. I have tried one though, and for me the screen size helps to annotate PDFs and create legal contracts on word easily.
As some have said it´s just a bigger ipad, but given my old ipad is already a vital part of my workday the extra screen real state seems to improve on it
Today was my first workday with the iPad and the pencil;
I made notes having a meeting with the area manager who runs one of our complexes.
We edited an excel sheet together to map our workload over the next month
I made a PowerPoint presentation for a team meeting, then delivered the presentation using the iPad with my notes on show using multi tasking
I reviewed my notes for the to do list and went through some key points with the team - including pulling a calendar in as multi tasking to check dates for a Christmas party
I annotated some pdf documents and emailed them as a 'flat' pdf to a supplier to approve some work
I wrote 3 letters to various team members, signed them digitally and then printed them
I loaded some excel sheets into a graphing app to go through with the company owner some key points on the last 2 weeks
I converted a ppt to a PDF, scribbled all over it and emailed it back to a training provider
This is on top of various emails and text messaging and 30 minutes of video during dinner.
The most amazing thing - 8 hours 40mins use for 47% battery remaining.
I run the screen brightness quiet low but that's just incredible battery life !
I made notes having a meeting with the area manager who runs one of our complexes.
We edited an excel sheet together to map our workload over the next month
I made a PowerPoint presentation for a team meeting, then delivered the presentation using the iPad with my notes on show using multi tasking
I reviewed my notes for the to do list and went through some key points with the team - including pulling a calendar in as multi tasking to check dates for a Christmas party
I annotated some pdf documents and emailed them as a 'flat' pdf to a supplier to approve some work
I wrote 3 letters to various team members, signed them digitally and then printed them
I loaded some excel sheets into a graphing app to go through with the company owner some key points on the last 2 weeks
I converted a ppt to a PDF, scribbled all over it and emailed it back to a training provider
This is on top of various emails and text messaging and 30 minutes of video during dinner.
The most amazing thing - 8 hours 40mins use for 47% battery remaining.
I run the screen brightness quiet low but that's just incredible battery life !
No matter how useful you find this tool in your profession, it will never stop the haters from coming in and trying to **** all over your party. There are some real losers out there that just have no clue how much more useful this is with the larger screen and pencil for so many "professional" use cases. Maybe they don't have any professional use cases... or any profession?
Anyway, I found myself with a bit of unplanned professional work while waiting for my oil to be changed. I was working with splashtop, coda, 1password, Mail, and a few other sundry apps. The biggest benefit I got from the Pro was when using splashtop, since I wasn't anywhere where using a keyboard made any sense, it was especially nice to have the extra screen space to have the on screen keyboard up while interacting with a remote Windows environment really quite stress free. The high res. support just added earlier today also helped making the smaller text on the scaled screen that much clearer (thus requiring less zooming around.)
I could do this on a smaller iPad, sure. Though switching between apps without the 4GB of ram would very likely have forced me to reconnect to things repeatedly. As it was, I never lost my splashtop connection, never lost my SSH session, never had to wait for safari to reload tabs (azure portal with several views open, anyone who uses this knows navigation can be a tedious pain,) and never had to wait on Mail because it swapped out.
Oh and I'm sure having a beefier CPU helped given all that was going on.
Then later that night I accepted a contract as a word doc in mail, filled it out and signed it using word and notability (and the pencil of course.) Eventually just Word should be able to manage that, I think, with the upcoming drawing additions.
That can be a fairly common task, and maybe there are more automated ways to do it with specific apps, but, it was nice that it was easy to manage, as easy as doing it on my Mac. Maybe easier, since I got to actually sign right on the screen, accurately, instead of having to take a picture or sign with my touchpad or some crap with Preview.
Look, iPad Pro didn't suddenly make iPad capable as a professional tool. I have used iPad as a professional tool FOR FIVE FULL YEARS. What iPad Pro has done is greatly expand the options available for people making more serious use of the device. And yeah, obviously, it could improve things for casual use too. In fact, I use my iPad as much casually as I do professionally. And no, I'm not Frederico Viticci. iPad is a companion to me. I dislike the notebook form factor, and really, notebooks in general. I do my serious work on a beefy desktop. iPad Pro is a really great way to veg out, or work remotely in a lighter manner, a very very smart thin client, sometimes the full client, just depends on what's going on.
Honestly, the only way iPad can't be useful at all to most professionals is if they adamantly refuse to even try.
Anyway, I found myself with a bit of unplanned professional work while waiting for my oil to be changed. I was working with splashtop, coda, 1password, Mail, and a few other sundry apps. The biggest benefit I got from the Pro was when using splashtop, since I wasn't anywhere where using a keyboard made any sense, it was especially nice to have the extra screen space to have the on screen keyboard up while interacting with a remote Windows environment really quite stress free. The high res. support just added earlier today also helped making the smaller text on the scaled screen that much clearer (thus requiring less zooming around.)
I could do this on a smaller iPad, sure. Though switching between apps without the 4GB of ram would very likely have forced me to reconnect to things repeatedly. As it was, I never lost my splashtop connection, never lost my SSH session, never had to wait for safari to reload tabs (azure portal with several views open, anyone who uses this knows navigation can be a tedious pain,) and never had to wait on Mail because it swapped out.
Oh and I'm sure having a beefier CPU helped given all that was going on.
Then later that night I accepted a contract as a word doc in mail, filled it out and signed it using word and notability (and the pencil of course.) Eventually just Word should be able to manage that, I think, with the upcoming drawing additions.
That can be a fairly common task, and maybe there are more automated ways to do it with specific apps, but, it was nice that it was easy to manage, as easy as doing it on my Mac. Maybe easier, since I got to actually sign right on the screen, accurately, instead of having to take a picture or sign with my touchpad or some crap with Preview.
Look, iPad Pro didn't suddenly make iPad capable as a professional tool. I have used iPad as a professional tool FOR FIVE FULL YEARS. What iPad Pro has done is greatly expand the options available for people making more serious use of the device. And yeah, obviously, it could improve things for casual use too. In fact, I use my iPad as much casually as I do professionally. And no, I'm not Frederico Viticci. iPad is a companion to me. I dislike the notebook form factor, and really, notebooks in general. I do my serious work on a beefy desktop. iPad Pro is a really great way to veg out, or work remotely in a lighter manner, a very very smart thin client, sometimes the full client, just depends on what's going on.
Honestly, the only way iPad can't be useful at all to most professionals is if they adamantly refuse to even try.