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This said there are plenty of use cases for a larger ipad with a stylus, I am sure it will be a very successful product.
"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." -Steve Jobs
> It’s right out of the Steve Jobs handbook: something you don’t offer is a
> terrible idea, until you offer it yourself, at which point you explain why your
> solution is the first to get it right.
It is in direct competition to the 'Surface Pro'.
& just announcing "The Smart Keyboard", smart case built just for iPad Pro with keyboard built in. "Unlike any keyboard you've ever used before." With Apple Fabric! And an Apple Dome Switch!
For anyone that doesn't know this, you can connect USB keyboard to the iPad Camera Connection kit. It works with most keyboards, including mechanical ones.
"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." -Steve Jobs
This stylus is an optional accessory with a very specific use case. A fundamentally different thing.
But my guess is that as long as computers dont have proper touch interfaces tablets will be considered to have a different use senario.
It is hard to lift up my computer on the buss and look at a video or browse the web in a somewhat comfortable way.
I don't want it unless it has an exposed CLI without jail breaking.
In fact there are Android apps that do this. It's harder on iOS because you don't get fork(), but if someone wanted to try super hard, you could make all the apps run as threads within the same process.
If you want a root shell without jailbreaking, that's almost contradictory.
>In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it.
>Users shouldn't ever have to think about it.
Steve Jobs, 2010[0]
[0] http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/jobs-if-you-see-a-stylus-...
I don't understand the allure of a "pro" iPad. Wouldn't you just want a laptop then? The keyboard is (at least for me) the fastest accurate text input device ever invented. It's the main reason I type everything instead of write it by hand.
A 12" class tablet with a keyboard case is, I find (I use a Galaxy Note Pro 12.2), a very good reading platform (better than a laptop, since you can use it like a tablet without the keyboard getting in the way) as well as a decent laptop substitute for lots of uses.
Its not as good as a laptop for all uses -- and I still do use a laptop -- but its pretty much the sweet spot for me for tablets.