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The twofaced advertising really bothers me - they promote the iPad pro as if it's a "pro" laptop/desktop replacement, but it's clearly just designed for the sam

The twofaced advertising really bothers me - they promote the iPad pro as if it's a "pro" laptop/desktop replacement, but it's clearly just designed for the same use cases as any other iPad/Android tablet.

nkingsy 4y ago
But I play buttery smooth COD mobile on an M1 iPad while waiting for builds, so thats more or less professional.
dagmx 4y ago
“Pro” really depends on what market you’re speaking to which is where your comparison falls apart. Large, HDR and color accurate screen is very important to a lot of content creators for example, and coupled with the Apple Pencil+apps like procreate or shapr3d, there’s a significant number of professionals who make use of the hardware that the Pro offers that other tablets or devices in the iPad range cannot. Yes the Air has the pencil but not the screen, while the regular iPad has the older pencil which is significantly behind the current gen.
musictubes 4y ago
Music making on the iPad is amazing. Now you can use the same VST on the iPad and Mac (Apple Silicon). Moog just re-released their Minimoog app for both. The iPad Pro is certainly capable of professional music work, at least for performance.
- jmmcd 4y ago
  What app are you using for that? I was surprised to see Logic isn't available on iPad.
olliej 4y ago
That’s entirely dependent on what “pro” you’re talking about. I suspect many professional artists don’t need the stuff that a MacBook has (ie macos) but like having a low latency touchscreen and stylus. Similarly I suspect most professional software developers don’t need a touchscreen (or accompanying stylus). You can say that you think these should be a single device, but saying that because they’re not invalidates the “pro” claim because neither device can do everything isn’t reasonable. For example, many pro designers could probably say the MacBook “pro” is not pro as it doesn’t have a low latency touch screen. Or that some behemoth PC is not a professional workstation because it doesn’t have said touchscreen. Hopefully that alternative view helps demonstrate why you’re “it’s not pro” claim isn’t really valid. This is of course also ignoring the generically vague definition of what “pro” even means.

nkingsy 4y ago

But I play buttery smooth COD mobile on an M1 iPad while waiting for builds, so thats more or less professional.

dagmx 4y ago

“Pro” really depends on what market you’re speaking to which is where your comparison falls apart. Large, HDR and color accurate screen is very important to a lot of content creators for example, and coupled with the Apple Pencil+apps like procreate or shapr3d, there’s a significant number of professionals who make use of the hardware that the Pro offers that other tablets or devices in the iPad range cannot. Yes the Air has the pencil but not the screen, while the regular iPad has the older pencil which is significantly behind the current gen.

musictubes 4y ago

Music making on the iPad is amazing. Now you can use the same VST on the iPad and Mac (Apple Silicon). Moog just re-released their Minimoog app for both. The iPad Pro is certainly capable of professional music work, at least for performance.

jmmcd 4y ago
What app are you using for that? I was surprised to see Logic isn't available on iPad.

olliej 4y ago

That’s entirely dependent on what “pro” you’re talking about. I suspect many professional artists don’t need the stuff that a MacBook has (ie macos) but like having a low latency touchscreen and stylus. Similarly I suspect most professional software developers don’t need a touchscreen (or accompanying stylus). You can say that you think these should be a single device, but saying that because they’re not invalidates the “pro” claim because neither device can do everything isn’t reasonable. For example, many pro designers could probably say the MacBook “pro” is not pro as it doesn’t have a low latency touch screen. Or that some behemoth PC is not a professional workstation because it doesn’t have said touchscreen. Hopefully that alternative view helps demonstrate why you’re “it’s not pro” claim isn’t really valid. This is of course also ignoring the generically vague definition of what “pro” even means.