The first section entitled, “Amazing Apps for IPad Pro” is divided into five categories that are Enhanced for Apple Pencil, Desktop-class Apps, Powerful Multi-tasking, Unleash Your Creativity, and Bigger With A Better Screen and Immersive. With keyboard cover and stylus accessories, Apple is clearly hoping steal a page out of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Surface Pro book to convert a few laptop owners into tablet users.
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Research company Telsyte says the stage is set for a battle between professional devices as the Surface Pro 4 goes head to head with Apple’s iPad Pro, and other devices.
If not, head to your nearby Apple Store.
You may not need the Apple Pencil, but you will want an iPad Pro keyboard. The iOS 9 join.me update also takes full advantage of key iOS 9 features, including multitasking for the iPad, allowing for more than one app to be open and used at the same time. But in two to three years, he believes Apple will beef up its App Store enough to satisfy business customers, making it more likely you will see the iPad Pro in the workplace. Apple’s Smart Keyboard is $169 compared to Logitech’s $150 price tag. The Surface Book will be available exclusively through the Microsoft Store – online or inside its flagship store.
Also worth noting is the fact that even if you don’t have an iPad Pro, the new featured sections let you discover excellent apps and games to use and play on your iPad.
Although there are a wide variety of styluses that will work with an iPad, none of them have the device-specific features – like palm rejection and angle detection – of the Apple Pencil.
So for more than a $1000 the iPad Pro is almost impossible to fix. Unsurprisingly, he rated the iPad Pro as a great tool for creative professionals.
Apple launched the iPad Pro as its bigger and more powerful addition to its tablet portfolio in September alongside the new generation iPhones. Still, these are things that help sell the iPad Pro.
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While Mossberg’s reaction was a mixed one, Joanna Stern calls iPad Pro as jack of all trades and master of most.
