Poll: Apple iPad Pro

Are you going to buy an iPad Pro?

  • Yes

    Votes: 146 33.1%

  • No

    Votes: 295 66.9%
  • Total voters
    441
Tim Cook has said all he carries round with him now is an iPhone, Watch and iPad Pro (w/keyboard).

The Pencil - it's an accessory for very specific use where touch is an inferior input method; a lot of people will never buy or need to buy it since outside of drawing/sketching (which thankfully, it appears to excel at due the lack of latency), iOS has never been and never will require a stylus to operate it precisely - it's touch-based so giving away Pencils for free with the Pro wouldn't make much business sense; the people that need it for something will buy it, the people that will buy it just because... and never use it... will buy it, and the people that just want a big iPad won't buy it. It's more revenue to sell it seperately and by not bundling it with the Pro it doesn't suggest it (or the keyboard) is somehow essential to the operation of the device.
 
I think i'll be getting rid of my Air for this. I have an iMac for grunt work so think it should slot in quite nicely in between my 6 plus and that.
 
I cannot believe they are not selling a smart case for this and that you have to buy the silicon back and the smart cover (both only available in white or black) to get full protection and that comes in at £114, I intended to buy a pro and was going through the checkout just now but once I had added the covers bringing the price up to £913 it was enough to change my mind at least for now.
 
I love iPads. In fact, I would go as far as to say it's an essential device for me. I don't think I could live without one, but this seems a bit of a nonsense product to me. The size goes against the grain as to what the iPad is supposed to be. A smart little device that you can lay on the sofa and in bed using comfortably. The current size is perfect, 12 inches seems too unwieldy. I will reserve final judgement until I've picked one up, but I certainly can't see me shelling out £200 more than a normal iPad just for a few extra inch of screen. I'm not into design stuff anyway, which seems a bit of a speciality of this device.
 
I wanted a Pro but because of the late release it's not on my work benefits scheme selection which runs from 2nd Nov to 20th November.

Looks like I'm stuck with year old Air 2's :(
 
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