> but it prioritizes being "grandma proof" over a serious work machine from the get go Which is kind of absurd considering they sell a device called "iPad Pro"

> but it prioritizes being "grandma proof" over a serious work machine from the get go Which is kind of absurd considering they sell a device called "iPad Pro" which costs as much as their entry-level laptops, which are—by and large—enormously more capable, despite sharing the same internals. I appreciate the iPad as a computer for people who aren't interested in computers (my mum has been happily iPad-only for years now), and I recognise that I have a degree of saltiness because I'm a software developer and the "Pro" in "iPad Pro" seems far more geared to artists and other creative professions, but it's a terrible shame there's no way to take the training wheels off what is otherwise a fantastic ultraportable computer. My MacBook Pro is a great computer that I like a lot, but the only reason I even need it is because my iPad is incapable of doing anything I need for development, and the ~15% of dev I do away from my desk is still important to me. If I could do some casual noodling or prototyping work on my iPad with a keyboard, I could have just bought a desktop Mac instead.