The iPad’s hardware is so far beyond every other tablet ever made that it isn’t really reasonable to categorize it as a “tablet”: it’s an iPad. It’s a horse of a different color.
If you want an iPad, only Apple sells them. If you want a tablet (a different class of device that is nowhere near as useful or high quality as an iPad) then yes, you can buy them from other manufacturers.
Nobody but nobody is making hardware on the level of the current iPhones, iPads, and Macbooks. It’s not even remotely close. I bought a top of the line Dell “ultrabook” not long ago and half of the functionality felt like I had traveled back in time to the 90s.
Not sure what you're talking about here. Seems like the Apple reality distortion ignorance field.
Lol, the gatekeeping of your post to say the iPad is not a tablet.
All I want in a tablet is a nice screen, fast CPU, and quick switching between apps.
I want those things OP complained about in the article to work (background apps/multitasking/background audio etc).
For me the tablet is a media consumption device. I write notes in Obsidian a tiny bit, but I want a keyboard to do any real work. I can use a bluetooth keyboard if I want.
I have no complaints about my tablet now. It even has a headphone jack.
I can put youtube (revanced, adblocked and sponsorblocked) on a split screen with reddit below.
I can use Firefox with adblock.
I can ssh and vnc to my servers.
I auto-sync files with my own servers using Syncthing.
iPad can't do those things.
What magic features does an iPad have? A pen? The absolute worst input method imaginable.
I had a pen on my OG Samsung Galaxy Note from 2011, and I never used it. Also on the Note 3, also never used that, because Pens suck.
More cameras I won't use? No thanks. I have very good cameras on my phone that is always with me, and a dedicated mirrorless for when I care to take really good photos.
I recognize that I'm obviously not the target market for iPad Pro - I don't want to hold a screen that big while sitting on the couch.
But from reading your post, the market for iPad Pro appears to be people ignorant enough to be deluded that it's so different and somehow "better quality" than any other tablet.
Then you read the actual article to see exactly how deluded they are.
IpadOS sounds like a shit show.
Literally the only thing Apple has that I am somewhat jealous of is battery efficiency of the fanless macbooks.
I want a fanless laptop (am I even permitted to call a macbook a laptop when it's so clearly superior to your Dell laptop? lol), but I won't suffer Apple to get one.
I don't even use my laptop except if I take it when I go away on holidays. But it's not in any way lower quality than macbooks.
Linux/Windows laptops should be fanless soon I hope.
The only quality Apple has over other manufacturers is the quality of their marketing.
> All I want in a tablet is a nice screen, fast CPU, and quick switching between apps.
> What magic features does an iPad have?
> I am somewhat jealous of is battery efficiency of the fanless macbooks.
I want good battery efficiency on my tablets as well, and I doubt any Android tablet could match that. It's a tablet for god's sake, the whole point is to not have to tether it to a power outlet for any prolonged duration of work.
If you want an iPad, only Apple sells them. If you want a tablet (a different class of device that is nowhere near as useful or high quality as an iPad) then yes, you can buy them from other manufacturers.
Nobody but nobody is making hardware on the level of the current iPhones, iPads, and Macbooks. It’s not even remotely close. I bought a top of the line Dell “ultrabook” not long ago and half of the functionality felt like I had traveled back in time to the 90s.