


WWDC 2021 DISAPPOINTMENT PRO
It certainly did help a lot for the times I wasn’t able or willing to lug around the 2012 MacBook Pro but it could never achieved the level of productivity that I was able to on the Mac. Don’t get me wrong, these were excellent hardware innovations(bar that Apple Pencil charging solution), however it was still the same underlying iOS with tedious file management and not the most reliable cloud syncing. Nothing really changed apart from a much more convenient keyboard and the ability to conveniently sign and draw stuff. But even though it lasted all day(in a time when laptops only lasted 4-5hrs on idle) the OS was never powerful enough to completely replace my laptop.Įquipped with the keyboard folio, Apple Pencil and the speedy A9X (in 2016 of course), it gave the promise of doing away with my 2012 13” Classic MacBook Pro once all those pro apps got up to speed. I pretty much brought it everywhere and it was an absolute companion, I loved it. For my line of work at the time, I was very attracted to the battery life and portability of the first iPad Mini and I just had to have it. But it gets tricky when it comes to professional users. Then comes the iPad Pro.Īs a consumption device, it’s not hard to argue that iPads are in fact better at it than Macs and PCs. And to be fair, we’re not very far off that becoming a reality for a large number of people. I started using the initial ones purely out of curiosity and then got the later ones for productivity, so I’ve definitely been on the ride with Apple’s peddling of the idea that iPads will one day entirely replace PCs/Macs for the average user. I’ve had several others along the way, some I bought myself while others were generously gifted. I’ve had an iPad ever since the first one was released in 2010 to much controversy.

For those of you who want the answer immediately, long story short, yes the M1 iPad Pro is the most disappointing Apple product of 2021 to me and here’s why.
