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I half-watched the Apple Keynote to find out about the new S iPhones and the iPad mini 4. I came away thinking seriously about the iPad Pro, which wasn't on my radar, at all.
I do a fair amount of photography and page layout work, for family photos and community event promotion, not professionally. I'm tied to my iMac for that work, because that's where the reasonably-priced prosumer apps are.
Adobe's demo of their new Comp/Fix suite intrigued me. Sadly, it's not as full-featured as the demo implied. Their own press release makes it clear they don't expect people to finish work on the Pro, just sketch/brainstorm it. They expect people will finish in the Creative Cloud apps. I find the pricing on CC is prohibitively expensive for someone not using it to make money.
But I'm sure some other startup is already dreaming of what they can with that Pro/Pencil combo. I'm also curious to see if Apple will beef up iOS Pages now. They stripped some of the functionality out of MacOS Pages to make it parallel the iOS version. So now they'll probably put some of those features back to sell more iPad Pros.
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