Apple is making a mistake by holding the iPad Pro back
It’s deja vu all over again: A new powerful iPad Pro launches, prompting speculation and what-if scenarios about the tablet replacing the Mac, and Apple …
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It's deja vu all over again: A new powerful iPad Pro launches, prompting speculation and what-if scenarios about the tablet replacing the Mac, and Apple refuses to comply. The company tells everyone that there's room for both the iPad and the Mac. Hence, there's no need to merge the two products or further muddy the waters between them.
The latest explanation gives us a more detailed reason why Apple thinks it doesn't need to make the iPad Pro's software more like a Mac or give the MacBook a touchscreen. Apple says, "the majority of Mac customers have an iPad, and they use them both."
But you're mistaken, Apple, and I'll tell you why as a longtime Apple product user. I'd love to replace my Mac with the M4 iPad Pro. I'd do it right away if I could use it for work; if the iPad could replace traditional computers, which is one of Apple's goals. But I can't. I already said I want an iPad, but I can't justify the M4 iPad Pro until iPadOS 18 rolls out.
I can't just pay $1,000+ for the M4 iPad Pro if it ends up being a content-consumption machine. Any other iPad would do. I don't need it to be that powerful and that thin if all it'll do is stream Netflix and browse the web, one app at a time. And I definitely don't need an OLED panel just for that.
Like me, plenty of others can't replace the Mac with the iPad. And they can't use the Mac for entertainment as well as an iPad. So they will buy both. The stats that Apple ends up with then tell a flawed story; that there's demand for both devices from the same consumer.
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