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I am also a crusty old Mac user from back then. I really miss MacOS 8 and its simplicity and spatial Finder. The iPad Pro is a pro device for creative professi

I am also a crusty old Mac user from back then. I really miss MacOS 8 and its simplicity and spatial Finder. The iPad Pro is a pro device for creative professionals in visual arts only, to my knowledge. It’s definitely not a pro software development tool or anything else of the sort we’d use a Mac for. In some sense you can think of the iPad Pro as an attack on Wacom’s market. I’m not a creative pro by any stretch of the imagination. I use my iPad Pro for tutoring people remotely in mathematics, a task it excels at. I also play some games on it and use it for FaceTime calls because its front-facing camera is nicer than the one on my M1 MBA. I’m really happy with my iPad Pro even though I was hesitant about buying one for over a year. I was expecting buyers’ remorse to set in but it thankfully hasn’t. I keep finding new things to do with it. Scrolling through PDFs on the device is way smoother than the MBA, for example, so I’ve used it as a second screen for reading documentation while working.

perardi 6y ago
I’m a creative pro who works on math software, so, synergy. I just feel like I am slogging through mud to work with versions of mockups, quickly bouncing stuff to git or onto our damned fileserver, all that administrative jazz. (I will note my college illustration professor loves her iPad Pro with a passion that would fill an Apple keynote—she ditched her Wacom instantly.) But though I’m iffy on the Pro in iPad, I am pro iPad, if only because my somewhat elderly parents love the thing. They are like some Platonic ideal of iPad users—they have totally and completely ditched their Mac, and do all their banking and medical records and weather (old people love weather) on their iPad, with a fluency they never, ever came close to achieving with a mouse.
Jcowell 6y ago
I disagree. It makes a fantastic planning tool and on the fly monitor to my MacBook Pro and Mac Mini.

perardi 6y ago

I’m a creative pro who works on math software, so, synergy. I just feel like I am slogging through mud to work with versions of mockups, quickly bouncing stuff to git or onto our damned fileserver, all that administrative jazz. (I will note my college illustration professor loves her iPad Pro with a passion that would fill an Apple keynote—she ditched her Wacom instantly.) But though I’m iffy on the Pro in iPad, I am pro iPad, if only because my somewhat elderly parents love the thing. They are like some Platonic ideal of iPad users—they have totally and completely ditched their Mac, and do all their banking and medical records and weather (old people love weather) on their iPad, with a fluency they never, ever came close to achieving with a mouse.

Jcowell 6y ago

I disagree. It makes a fantastic planning tool and on the fly monitor to my MacBook Pro and Mac Mini.