Thread: Apple iPad Pro announced
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Old 09-14-2015, 03:54 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
I'm disappointed with the direction Apple is taking with the iPad Pro. For 'productivity', I think you need to be able to do most things with a physical keyboard and trackpad/mouse. It is no good if you have to touch the screen to do so many things. Both Surface-type and Android devices let you do this without any issues, or surprises.

External keyboards with iOS don't even let you do reasonable things, like using arrow keys or tab or page up/page down to navigate UI, unless you enable Accessibility, and then they do it very inefficiently.

I see no justification for this, apart from some arbitrary philosophical design decision to keep MacBooks and iPads as distinct device types. 'Hybrid' is apparently some sort of evil. So no touch screen for MacBooks, and no mouse cursor for iPads. I don't get it.

This makes me more interested in getting a Surface Pro...
I wasn't aware of the mouse limitation. What happens when you try to pair a bluetooth mouse?
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