Remember those Apple ads which showed everything that you do on your average laptop can be done on your not so average iPad. Yes, the iPad Pro is faster than about 70% of the total laptops present in the market, or at your homes, but, could it replace your laptop? If you’d have asked me that question before WWDC 2019, I would have said a resounding NO, but Apple really flipped the script by unveiling the iPad OS designed specifically to increase and improve the functionality of your iPads.

Don’t get me wrong, the iPad Pro is the greatest piece of hardware ever by Apple, checking all the boxes, delivering all the goods. But you ask me, it was held back by the software, the typical iOS running on the iPhones. Exceptional hardware, crappy software, not the perfect match. Upon that, Apple adding different gestures for both the iPhone and the iPad kind of moved the company in two different directions in terms of a common software, the iOS.

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