<story><title>iPad Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyarosla</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s new about this is that Apple is &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;FINALLY&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; listening to its power iPad users!&lt;p&gt;Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac. Moreover it even allows you to sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. Lastly, it&amp;#x27;s putting in an actual dock, multiple window layouts, easy copy paste.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s a real game changer and all of these are features that I&amp;#x27;ve been truly looking forward to. It&amp;#x27;s almost like a turning point in my mind. It&amp;#x27;s crossed the threshold to where iOS can indeed act as a laptop&amp;#x2F;desktop replacement for a huge number of people.&lt;p&gt;Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;ll be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BatFastard</author><text>Wow, give them 5 more years and they will catch up to where the Surface is now!</text></comment>
<story><title>iPad Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyarosla</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s new about this is that Apple is &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;FINALLY&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; listening to its power iPad users!&lt;p&gt;Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac. Moreover it even allows you to sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. Lastly, it&amp;#x27;s putting in an actual dock, multiple window layouts, easy copy paste.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s a real game changer and all of these are features that I&amp;#x27;ve been truly looking forward to. It&amp;#x27;s almost like a turning point in my mind. It&amp;#x27;s crossed the threshold to where iOS can indeed act as a laptop&amp;#x2F;desktop replacement for a huge number of people.&lt;p&gt;Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;ll be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac, and even allows it to now sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. I think it&amp;#x27;s a real gamechanger and something I&amp;#x27;ve been personally waiting on.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ll see how well it works, I suppose.  Remember that Apple thought this was a dumb, backwards feature (paraphrasing) when people were asking for it years ago.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; it won&amp;#x27;t be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.&lt;p&gt;What are you basing the &amp;quot;won&amp;#x27;t be long&amp;quot; sentiment on?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mean to get on you, but there&amp;#x27;s a lot of optimism in your post, and I&amp;#x27;m not sure that&amp;#x27;s entirely warranted just yet.  Yeah the hardware is a lot better, but it&amp;#x27;s yet to be seen if it&amp;#x27;s still just a giant iPhone from a software perspective.  Of course, you may think my cynicism is unwarranted, that&amp;#x27;s fair too.</text></comment>