The iPads Pro outperform MacBooks computationally. They’re thin, light, reliable, gorgeous, and yet despite their impressive computational performance they need no fans.
Software is where the iPad has gotten lost.
Other than servers, my iPad Pro is probably the fastest computer I currently own. And yet the above is exactly right. The hardware is excellent. The software is barely acceptable to bad. Apple is trying to both cater to clueless droolers and “pros.” This simply cannot work.
Droolers as a demographic are not capable of learning much or doing much with their computing devices; most cannot even find and click a single button reliably. This is about 80-90% of computer users. The iPad Pro, therefore, should truly be aimed at users who can multi-task, can make use of a real file system, can understand abstraction and don’t need an interface a chimp would be comfortable with.
That’s the iPad Pro I want and need but that Apple will probably never make.