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Just because they are pushing iPad Pro as replacements for full laptops doesn't mean people can realistically replace their daily workflows with iPads right now
by rarepostinlurkr 10y ago
Just because they are pushing iPad Pro as replacements for full laptops doesn't mean people can realistically replace their daily workflows with iPads right now.
There is "Productivity" (Generic Office Productivity) and there there is Productivity (Making Industries Turn). No doubt they could have iPad Pro's do both, but by the time you've made the iPad Pro able to do Maya, Premiere Pro, Da Vinci Resolve etc, you've turned it into a desktop again.
They may very well try to do that, arguing the iPad Pro is a better platform that embodies the vision of how they'd like desktop computing to be, but that platform is years and years away.
Also worth realizing that Developers aren't the bulk of people using computers for "Productivity", our use case isn't the primary one. Not that I'd be happy if Apple decided to ignore it. That'd be really sad.