<story><title>Apple Unveils the iPad Pro</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/apple-unveils-the-ipad-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jff</author><text>Predicted by a 3 year old comic: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qyv</author><text>The weird part for me is that everyone I know who tried an iPad for getting work done (ie: PROfessionals) gave up on it.  iOS is simply not geared towards productivity nor content creation, it is a consumption device.  The surface pro is the exact opposite, it is a machine that works for getting shit done on the go (for some people, not all obviously).</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Unveils the iPad Pro</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/apple-unveils-the-ipad-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jff</author><text>Predicted by a 3 year old comic: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s accurate to say Surface Pro presaged the iPad Pro by three years. Surface Pro was a basically different vision (not to mention a severely compromised device). A laptop without a keyboard but with a fan and short battery life. A software stack that requires you to go into the desktop to access non-trivial settings.&lt;p&gt;The iPad Pro is a big iPad. No x86, no fan, touch-based software stack, etc. It&amp;#x27;s not a computer, it doesn&amp;#x27;t have USB ports, it can&amp;#x27;t run desktop software. You can&amp;#x27;t plug it into a dock hook use it as a desktop machine.[1] On purpose. It&amp;#x27;s a very different point in the design space.&lt;p&gt;[1] Some people may consider the iPad Pro to be a Surface 3 with less features. And maybe it is depending on what you want from it. My take is that I&amp;#x27;ve got a quad-core laptop with 16GB of RAM as my workhorse. I don&amp;#x27;t want a compromise device that&amp;#x27;s part tablet and part ULV laptop. I want a companion device with a big screen that I can mark up PDFs on. I want a bigger iPad, not a laptop with a detachable keyboard.</text></comment>