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
Kobi said:
^^ that's some great advice. I use mine on the couch and in bed. For my usage, I think it'll be too big. But I'll deffo give it a try and see. Will possibly go android though, fancy a change with my phone too as will possibly go android to match.
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Exactly

I love my 10" Sony tablet which Ive had for 18 months or so but would so love a bigger screen for sitting in bed with/ around the house without being at the pc.

The problem with the apple is its frighteningly expensive and even now I got a free air2 from work (not quite the same screen size but doesn't make that much difference) I still prefer the Sony - but with a massively bigger screen (20% ish) I would get used to it

Its just not worth the markup currently - will look at the Samsung 12" at some point when I'm seriously looking though
 
cu3ed said:
Then you might wanna look into that...I worked for a place that rolled them out without problems.
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My point was there's no dealer network that we can access, thus they're inaccessible to swathes of the business and public sector. Microsoft are tooled up to sell software and mice\keyboards, but not the surface. Maybe it's changed in the last 12 months, but I've seen no sign of it.

We got a couple in by buying via credit cards, they rolled out no problems. Just add the driver pack to SCCM and it just works. The hardware that is. Windows 8 is still schizophrenic.
 
the_chicco said:
Err please tell me what is 'enterprise' about the iPad Pro? The Surface Pro is a far more suited 'enterprise' device than the iPad Pro will ever be in its current form. The 'consumer' in this instance for me personally is the type of user that needs a 'power' device and the way they have targeted this device is pitting it directly against the Surface Pro. In comparison it falls far short. If they had shoved an actual OS X of some form on there, different game. But they haven't and I fail to see what demographic this is for. I know of 2 clients that are rolling out Surface Pro's in their enterprise (each above 2000 users). The functionality they need could not be achieved with an Ipad Pro and IOS, but it could have with OS X on there.
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Lol there are already millions of enterprise ipads out there - where as the Surface Pro has flopped. You knowing of two companies is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
 
the_chicco said:
Wow. My employer is the biggest tech company in world (well they trade with Apple daily on No 1 spot).

Wanna keep going? :D

Rather than making sweeping idiotic statements like "the Surface Pro is a flop, there are millions of enterprise iPads out there" why don't you get put some technical insight into that for us all oh enlightened one?
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You said I didn't work in 'enterprise' - I demonstrated that you were wrong.

I couldn't care less where you work - does this company really have more surfaces than ipads? In your call centre role you probably dont know - check the company intranet.

You have still not added anything of substance - are you seriously suggesting that there are more enterprise 'surfaces' out there? What is your point?

Surfaces arent selling - even MS acknowledge that.
 
Please stop dick waving about who works where, thanks.

I have seen lots of Surface Pro's around the place, but they are all just used as Windows laptops that people squint at. I'm not seeing much if any innovation in use of the form factor or touch input. Now and again it's used to scroll an email, big deal.

The iPad not running OS X means that it can't run any application that isn't specifically designed to take advantage of the features that it has. If being used purely with touch as the input it provides a superior user experience to the Surface. It also enjoys what I see as much greater Enterprise support - a mature MDM ecosystem, application volume purchasing and assignment to employees, application assignment to devices coming in iOS 9 meaning no need for staff to have Apple IDs, activation locks which can be overridden by IT, device enrollment so you can ship hardware directly to end users without having to touch them to get profiles on etc.

I've no doubt MS will get there, but everything I've seen so far has the desktop UI bit of the Windows devices managed like a PC (Group Policy etc etc.), and the touch part being more or less unmanageable.

Apple already have a machine for spinning up virtual environments, running IDEs and using OS X on, it's called the MacBook Pro.

This article sums things up quite well: http://recode.net/2015/09/14/apple-makes-its-biggest-push-to-date-into-the-enterprise/
 
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n111ck said:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkon...e-to-dominate-the-enterprise-mobility-market/
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1. That Forbes website is awful on an iPhone. It almost crashed my 6.... Prime example of why ad blockers are needed so much in iOS (and why responsive sites are rubbish!).

2. So they are basically saying it'll go down well with reps, for checking emails and for showing people a few bits and pieces, which is basically what people use iPads for now. They aren't saying it's opening a new sector or competing directly with the SP3 which is more a productivity device.
 
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