The 2017 iPad Pros

To me, the fundamental question remains this: what platform is the next web browser, BitTorrent, or BitCoin going to be invented on?<p>I posit that while the iPad remains a closed platform, it will <i>never</i> become the computer of the future, no matter how many pro features Apple adds. In a few years, I expect Apple pundits to be making the same &quot;how were we so wrong on the iPad&quot; articles that they were in 2016.<p>No doubt, the hardware here is certainly exciting. Many people can make full use of it for their careers. But it won&#x27;t send ripples through the fabric of society like the humble PC does every 5-10 years.

So how much does Gruber get paid to write these adver... err... I mean reviews?

I would love to see one day iPad Pros with the capability of being plugged into an external GPU and running desktop-grade applications instead of the meek productivity tools that the Apple App Store is constrained to. As a college student, I recently bought an iPad to take notes, and the one thing that&#x27;s stopping me from selling my laptop is the lack of connectivity and full MacOS. But then where&#x27;s the future of MacBooks if tablets overtake them in utility?

Mildly amusing is how everyone else is wrong until Apple does it.<p>If you&#x27;re going to use these things with a keyboard and like it then why was Microsoft so roundly mocked for championing touch screen laptops in the first place?

Does it work with a mouse? One of the most important client applications for me is an RDP connection to a VDI machine on Windows.

Damn, now that&#x27;s a glowing review. I might have to check one of these out.