No. Next question? I love my iPad Pro. It’s a fantastic device that I carried around the house for constant use. I later gave it to my kid in college who uses

No. Next question? I love my iPad Pro. It’s a fantastic device that I carried around the house for constant use. I later gave it to my kid in college who uses it for note taking, writing papers, and all the normal college stuff. It’s brilliant for that. But it’s good if and only if you never, ever want to do anything that’s not built in or readily available in the App Store. You’re buying and using the device as-is. Forget building your own tooling unless it’s something you can script up in Shortcuts. That doesn’t seem like the end of the world, yet it made me realize exactly how much of my environment I tend to customize with my own tools. It’s all the little stuff, like making macros in Keyboard Maestro that call out to shell scripts or Python to do a thing. (I implemented an Emacs-style push/pop-point feature in BBEdit, which doesn’t support that natively.) Or writing the forementioned shell scripts and Python. Or running from jobs to do things periodically. None of those are critical for most people, but they’re important to me. And if I can’t do that on an iPad — and I can’t — then I don’t want it. All the butting of heads against the garden walls made me resentful of this perfectly fine little device. Apple sells a gazillion of them so I can’t say they’re wrong about what users want. They sure are wrong about what I want though.