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
Rimsy said:
Personally I'm really disappointed split screen / "multitasking" is basically useless as I use my iPad 99% of the time in portrait orientation. Why on earth isn't there an option to split the screen horizontally?
Notifications are not as useful or as well presented as they are in android mostly due to the way they are grouped or how you can interact with them. Have turned off notifications for pretty much every app.
The settings for most apps not being within the apps themselves is just strange to me and causes the settings app itself to be a bit of a mess.

I'm probably going to get roasted for saying this but I honestly find the Google equivalent of the app store to be better. Granted the selection of quality apps for iOS FAR eclipses android from what I've seen so far but the method of delivery feels antiquated in comparison. In fact that's how iOS feels in general. Very smooth in operation yes but under the hood....getting a bit long in the tooth.

Which leads me onto the final gripe - no file system or support for external storage! How can something that's been pitched as a replacement for a computer lack such basic functionality?

That being said I'm generally over the moon with mine as I bought it mostly to use Procreate with the pencil. And it's truely awesome for that.
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File systems? Talk about long in the tooth!
 
skaif said:
Any context on the white spot issue? What is it?
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Essentially, there’re a
skaif said:
Any context on the white spot issue? What is it?
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Essentially, there were a number of reported cases of a white spot appearing in the proximity to the Home Button in the older iPad Pro’s, seems to be affecting the 10.5 version more than others. These white spots seem to appear over time and not evident when first owning the iPad.

I’ve found a number of reported cases in the older versions of the iPad Pro but has not found any reference to this on the 3rd gen iPad Pro yet.

On a side note, what does everyone’s iPad Pro (3rd gen 12.9”) serial number start with, mine start with D, anyone else’s are different?
 
Actually Im glad the file system topic has cropped up.

Im intending to buy an iPad for the purpose of putting my family pictures all on it... and then the idea is when Im travelling it gives me the time to go through them and delete the ones I want, rename files, relocate them to different folders and generally tidy them up.... and then once Im done to come back to my home PC and transfer everything over to it....

Now I understand a filing system does not exist on the iPad....

Is what i want to do not achieveable on the iPad at all? Are there any apps which help with this? Or am I screwed and should look at something like a Surface Pro 6?
 
mrochester said:
You were talking about iOS ‘getting a bit long in the tooth’ then proceeded to ask for a file system, which is even longer in the tooth than iOS is. I was pointing out the irony of your post.
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Having a useful file management system is a vital part of being a professional tool. Trying to use iOS in its current state is a total pain.

You have to import all the photos into iphotos, which is pretty weak for importing as you can only see thumbnails iirc. Then you have to import them to lightroom to work on them. There's no way to directly directly move your collections back out from iOS unless it's through the cloud (either via iPhotos or Adobe's setup) or maybe via iTunes.

It's all a bit messy.
 
Minstadave said:
Having a useful file management system is a vital part of being a professional tool. Trying to use iOS in its current state is a total pain.

You have to import all the photos into iphotos, which is pretty weak for importing as you can only see thumbnails iirc. Then you have to import them to lightroom to work on them. There's no way to directly directly move your collections back out from iOS unless it's through the cloud (either via iPhotos or Adobe's setup) or maybe via iTunes.

It's all a bit messy.
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We're not talking about a professional tool, we are talking about the iPad.

Apple Photos is an excellent service. It keeps all of your devices in sync so when you add/delete/edit photos on one device they are automatically synced to your other devices. You can also set it so that the storage space on your devices is optimised automatically which means only some of your photos will be stored locally on your device, the rest will be in the cloud with only thumbnails on your device.

Photo storage isn't done by folders in a file management system; that's the old way of categorising photos. Photo storage is now done via the photo metadata by means of events and object/people recognition.

Apple Photos only costs 79p per month for 50GB of space and no need to use Google's surveillance products.
 
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Minstadave said:
Having a useful file management system is a vital part of being a professional tool. Trying to use iOS in its current state is a total pain.

You have to import all the photos into iphotos, which is pretty weak for importing as you can only see thumbnails iirc. Then you have to import them to lightroom to work on them. There's no way to directly directly move your collections back out from iOS unless it's through the cloud (either via iPhotos or Adobe's setup) or maybe via iTunes.

It's all a bit messy.
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Hmm dammit... I was really hoping it would be easier to manage my photo files somehow :|
 
mrochester said:
We're not talking about a professional tool, we are talking about the iPad.

Apple Photos is an excellent service. It keeps all of your devices in sync so when you add/delete/edit photos on one device they are automatically synced to your other devices. You can also set it so that the storage space on your devices is optimised automatically which means only some of your photos will be stored locally on your device, the rest will be in the cloud with only thumbnails on your device.

Photo storage isn't done by folders in a file management system; that's the old way of categorising photos. Photo storage is now done via the photo metadata by means of events and object/people recognition.

Apple Photos only costs 79p per month for 50GB of space and no need to use Google's surveillance products.
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I categorise into folders by date/event.
Maybe old fashioned but its very easy for me to be able to easily search by simple keyword search in windows.

I do use OneDrive which I know iOS files supports, but again, if I am on a plane and want to manage my data, its not going to be that easy I believe?
 
If you want windows folders, get a Surface Pro.

If you want an iPad, get an iPad.

Both are fine devices, but the iPad is far better at consumption and the Surface for 'proper' work.
 
Sorted.

https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...-for-ios-60ffb5d6-ac87-4bea-b142-01f301b22e4c

iPad here I come :)

Now only a question of which one to get :\

Had a play on both the other day when I was in Dixons Heathrow.... I do like the size of the 12.9" but its a fair bit to lug around compared to the 11".
But then the extra screen estate on the 12.9", making multitasking easier on the eye.... and the bigger keyboard....

Argh decisions...
 
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