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
chef-borjan said:
No, she has.

https://twitter.com/lindadong/status/641665748008435712
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You do know that this woman used to work for Apple, and at some point probably wants her job back, and not to burn bridges?

I'd take her 'personal' experience with a pinch of salt tbh.

Wait for some reviews of finished launched products, in the hands of non-invested professionals, who can do direct comparisons of current tech vs. the new Apple stylus.

Personally, I think the Pro will sell well for a while, maybe 2-3 quarters, and unless there a serious improvement in IOS for the Pro market then it will become a niche product. Or simply a product for those who want an iPad with a big screen. :)
 
chef-borjan said:
No doubt a lot of people will be too lazy to read the article and continue to bash the Apple Pencil, so I will summarise...

It is superior to the Wacom. Finer tip, much better latency.

Let's see if this opinion holds up after it launched. My bet is yes. Why on earth would Apple release an accessory they know is inferior to what's already out there?
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To summarise, it's superior to the Wacom Cinque, which was never great to begin with.
 
Amp34 said:
It's a pen.

Why is the "Pencil" different to the Pen.

(It's not a stylus as it's active, not just a prodding stick).
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Can't you use it at different angles and pressures like a pencil - it's for design / art not writing. Don't get why people are struggling with this so much.
 
n111ck said:
Can't you use it at different angles and pressures like a pencil - it's for design / art not writing. Don't get why people are struggling with this so much.
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I'm pretty sure you can do that with most (good) pens thought too. Perhaps I'm wrong though.

Problem is most people can't even differentiate between a stylus and a pen so any further steps will be even more confusing.:p

EDIT: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/0...t-surface-pen-do-more-than-just-circle-stuff/

So tilt is the difference between a pen and a pencil... Interesting! :p

Seriously though, I wish, like the Surface, there was a "Monitor" mode on these devices where you could use them as tablets for another device.
 
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I've been an Mac user for about 20 years and own an iPad, Mac, iPhone. I've been thinking for while about what's the next purchase to replace my laptop. As soon as I heard about iPad pro I thought 'surface rip off'. I'm actually seriously considering my ultral portable will not be a laptop, MacBook or iPad pro but a surface.

I've tried to do serious work on my iPad multiple times and find iOS very restrictive even in applications such as word.
 
chef-borjan said:
We don't have proof that either of our opinions are 'fact'. but I firmly believe that Apple are interested first and foremost at creating innovating products for the world to use, and to change the way that we use technology.

The money just comes rolling in afterwards.
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If that is the case why did they keep the base 16GB iPhone model, which was barely enough before but tnow the phone has 4K and can take 12mp pictures is just stupid.
 
Weird design - charging in reverse. The connector on the "iStylus" instead of matching charger for the iPad, it matches charging port in the iPad, so you first charge the iPad, then in the most bizarre fashion, use the iPad to charge the iPen. Instead of it just charging off the same cable you used few minutes ago to charge the iPad.

Five minutes from now all the "designers" will cry they want to use iPen on regular sized iPad.
 
DIABLO said:
If that is the case why did they keep the base 16GB iPhone model, which was barely enough before but tnow the phone has 4K and can take 12mp pictures is just stupid.
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Because there are light users who don't install lots of games/apps. iOS 9 should reduce storage requirements as well.

You don't even need to keep your photos on the phone anymore, it can grab them from iCloud. Same for music. Streaming is the future.

16GB will be fine for many customers. It's not enough for me, but the point is that Apple have been considerate for many different customers. It allows them to get the phone cheaper after all.
 
It looks nice and all but until its a "proper" competitor to a Surface Pro (i.e proper MacOS) I can't see why I'd buy one and I'm not really sure Apple are going to want to threaten sales of Macbook and Macbook Air devices by doing that.

Tablets with Mobile OS are fine but for serious productivity (I'm thinking photo editing myself) then a desktop OS is really needed.
 
chrismscotland said:
It looks nice and all but until its a "proper" competitor to a Surface Pro (i.e proper MacOS) I can't see why I'd buy one and I'm not really sure Apple are going to want to threaten sales of Macbook and Macbook Air devices by doing that.

Tablets with Mobile OS are fine but for serious productivity (I'm thinking photo editing myself) then a desktop OS is really needed.
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And more power. Mobile/tablet processors are dog slow. Even the I5/I7 in the Macbook Airs and Surface Pros suffers at tasks in lightroom and the like.
 
I see the use case for this being:

Use iMac / Mac Pro to work on document in the Adobe CS suite of apps, with your files saved in the cloud
Open document on the iPad Pro to use with the pencil to get some freehand detail or retouching completed.
Reload document on desktop with the additions.

It's cheaper than a Cintiq, and I can see these being really popular with photo retouchers once the apps are in place.
 
People came out with all these claims pre iPad release as well - they were wrong and most likely will be again. Apple provide the tools and the consumer finds the use.

The idea that the Surface Pro will suddenly become the de facto enterprise tablet is laughable.
 
Try buying the Surface Pro if you're a large business with procurement rules. When we looked at them 12 months ago we hit a couple of main problems. First of all they want to shift them via a consumer based online store, which is no good if you work on purchase orders. Secondly, we can't go and get quotes from our usual approved suppliers that happily supply Dell, Lenovo, Apple etc.

Our Microsoft software license supplier couldn't supply hardware. It's just dumb!
 
I fancy boys said:
The difference for them putting 16 or 32gb in the phone must be a few dollars by now. I don't think it makes the phone cheaper at all, its just to push people into either paying more for the 32gb or subscribing to iCloud storage. Either way, they win.
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The guy is deluding himself that Apple is a holier then holy company not chasing the $$$$, laughable.
 
MagicBoy said:
Try buying the Surface Pro if you're a large business with procurement rules. When we looked at them 12 months ago we hit a couple of main problems. First of all they want to shift them via a consumer based online store, which is no good if you work on purchase orders. Secondly, we can't go and get quotes from our usual approved suppliers that happily supply Dell, Lenovo, Apple etc.

Our Microsoft software license supplier couldn't supply hardware. It's just dumb!
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Then you might wanna look into that...I worked for a place that rolled them out without problems.
 
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