After around 10 years with the iPad (since the 1st gen) in some form in my hand, I've given up on it entirely this year - selling my last iPad Pro and not picki

After around 10 years with the iPad (since the 1st gen) in some form in my hand, I've given up on it entirely this year - selling my last iPad Pro and not picking up a new one. I haven't missed it. Anything I need to do or look at on the go is satisfied by my iPhone (I am still sporting the 13 non-Pro, which is plenty fast for my needs). For everything else, I have my 3 year old Windows laptop which runs great even to this day. For anything beefier, I can wait until I'm home and use my PC. When I built the PC, it matched the 'new' Mac Pro spec-for-spec and I paid a fraction of the price (only 1500 euros!). Apple missed the boat with the iPad AND with macOS. I use Windows now (Yes, I'm aware of the 'privacy' issues surrounding telemetry, et. al.) and haven't missed the Apple platform one bit. Gaming aside, I haven't lacked for any developer tools when using Visual Studio. For web development, VS Code and WSL2/Docker fit the bill without very many issues. One of the biggest factor with Apple is the price. While the entry level iPad is competitively priced (550 euros for a 64gb model, or 750 euros for a 256gb model): it's also outdated (running the A14 Bionic SOC). The minute you take a peek at a more current model (iPad Air 64G @ 720 euros or 256G at 920 euros), you are firmly into laptop territory. After all this time, it's still evident that iPad cannot replace a laptop - it is still a companion device. And it's not for lack of hardware. It's because Apple still wants you to buy their laptop and then pair it with an iPad for the "complete" experience. To contrast, my laptop only cost me 900 euros for Ryzen 7 512GB SSD + 16GB RAM. Is it as fast as the M2 chip? Probably not, but you aren't using all that power on the iPad Pro the majority of the time, either. A benchmark for the 4800U v. M2 chip: Geekbench 6 (Single core): 1486 (4800U) -> 2536 (M2) Geekbench 6 (Multi core): 6246 (4800U) -> 9691 (M2) While the performance of the M2 is impressive - you aren't seeing it the majority of the time. Another factor I've had to deal with is that Apple insist on their own way of doing things; whether that is better in the end, is still anyone's guess 10 years on. But ever the black sheep: file management; while better these days, is still an issue... lack of certain types of applications, cannot build or install your own applications without a developer ID, and so on. I can't even run emulators on it without a) building it and sideloading it using developer tools (and re-doing the steps every so often to refresh the cert) or b) jailbreaking it. Anyways, this post went on longer than I anticipated. I know there will be defenders swooping in to proclaim that iPad Pro is the shiznit. Let's not forget that with a screen, keyboard - my laptop costed me 900 euros 3 years ago. If I were to get an updated version of it, it would cost me 800 euros now. An iPad Pro (512G storage) with M2 and a keyboard to go with it, would cost me 1720 euros. More than _double_. And, for what?