Daring Fireball: The 2021 M1 iPad Pros
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What Jamie wrote
I always read Gruber's reviews of new Apple hardware. I think he's right about the hardware aspects of the new M1-based iPad Pros. Now more than ever it feels like we may need to see iPadOS take a sharp turn into a new space.
The elephant in the room is iPadOS. It’s just not good enough. In the same way that Intel’s chips were holding back Macs, iPadOS has been holding back iPad Pros. With Intel chips, the hardware was holding back the Mac platform. With iPads, it’s the software holding the platform back. This hardware is indisputably amazing, and iPadOS is fine for casual use. But it still feels like I’m trying to do fine detail work while wearing oven mitts for my day-to-day work.
If you already love iPadOS, well, you’re in luck — go out and buy a new iPad Pro and I assure you, you’ll be delighted. For the rest of us, I have a feeling we need to see iPadOS 15 before we experience the true potential of these new (or any recent) iPad Pros.
Three weeks until WWDC.
This could be really exciting. Where or where will the iPad platform go?