5 reasons why the iPad Pro is not just a big iPad

If you think that iPad Pro - it's just a big and expensive iPad, then you are wrong. although there many arguments both in favor of and against. Leaving aside the debate about innovation and superiority of hybrid devices, we need to answer just one fundamental question: whether the new iPad Pro is really useful?

iPad Pro - is an attempt to make the iPad useful

Even the first iPad from the distant 2010, the multifunctional device was capable of solving a variety of tasks. But if you ask the owners of iPad, they often do on their tablets, most will say, watch movies, sit in social networks and playing games.

That is what is going to change with the Apple iPad Pro. The company is positioning the new iPad as a device, "incarcerated" on productivity. The large screen, new technologies support accessories, stylus Apple Pencil and keyboard Smart Keyboard They talk about the seriousness of intentions.

The iPad has always been more opportunities for content consumption than to create it, but Smart Keyboard, on the move turns your tablet into a laptop, should change this. The same applies to the Pencil stylus, which in conjunction with the right software allows to retouch photos, create presentations, and so on.

Microsoft has updated the sales at the start of the application of its office suite for iPad, adding support for accessories and encouraging professionals to use it for work.

iPad Pro could oust the initial MacBook

In a sense, the iPad Pro competes with MacBook. As an ideal portable device with a friendly user interface iPad Pro perform basic tasks may well compete with the 12-inch MacBook or 11-inch MacBook Air.

If the question of replacing my MacBook Air, in a few years I think, iPad Pro will also be among the options under consideration, and will need to find good arguments in favor of more expensive MacBook.

At the moment, the application ecosystem OS X can offer professional users a lot more iOS. And even though the new multitasking feature in iOS 9, this is actually not the multitasking that we have in OS X. In addition, specialized software such as Final Cut Pro and Photoshop on iOS is not yet available.

However, with the increase in the number of professionals among iOS users to catch up - following the example of Microsoft, and as Adobe - and other application developers. Maybe not now, but after a few years of the iPad Pro will be considered as an alternative to the entry-level MacBook.

iPad Pro is not an innovation, but a very cool product

The fact that Apple has not made a breakthrough in creating iPad Pro, does not mean that the company is something wrong. Microsoft this time ahead of Apple, but "first" does not always mean "better".

Surface Pro has been very well received by reviewers and users. He has a great form factor, holds great promise. Using the same logic applied to the best tablet in the world, we can say that he is doomed to success.

Let's leave aside holivary "Microsoft vs. Apple "and look at the product itself. If the Surface Pro 3 - a great portable computer "two in one", then the same applies to the iPad Pro. Surface - primarily the computer, and then later the tablet, iPad Pro - on the contrary, a tablet, which can also be used as a computer. This is their main difference, but both devices fulfill all the tasks assigned to them.

iPad Pro - perfect hybrid

In iPad Pro has all chances to become a competitive device-transformer. The necessary conditions are met: the tablet has a powerful iron-developed ecosystem of Apple's, a large community of interested developers, branded accessories and third-party support. Bet, iPad Pro is most advantageous attachment that exceeds existing hybrid devices.

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What do you think whether iPad Pro can replace UMPC? And if so, how soon will it happen? You would buy such a device for their needs?

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