Apple responded with the iPad Pro, which brought more horsepower with which no one knew what to do. The original member debuted 9499, whose jobs argued that he would be found in many hands. The pro price was like Mac, but it was still folded with an operating system designed for enhancing web pages, polishing through photos and finger painting. At the same time, the Apple Pencil – an apple style came. Did Apple “blow it up”? OK, no, because the iPad wasn’t Is required A stylus, and he provided answers to users who need health input.
But it was a clear departure from the original vision, which Apple has left in many years – it seems that consumers want more than a supersed iPhone. Nevertheless, the company also avoided taking the risk of making Mac’s sale. So instead of allowing the iPad to be a device, Apple preferred to smooth the transition Between Devices, comfortable and power users leave a strange extent.
Between a mac and a hard place
Every year, the vision of iPad jobs wanders further and still managed to leave people dissatisfied. Apple has added complexity to the general consumer and continued to make the wheels nobel in ways that always want more power users. Focus was changed by confusion.
Apple insisted that the iPad laptop is not a change, then sent a magnetic keyboard that makes it look like one. Mouse support was boldly added. M1 chips reached the need to crush with glory, on devices that still cannot improve the second screen output for external display.
Then in 2022, the stage manager demonstrated a window model of the iPad and Mac which no one asked for and almost no one liked. Clunky. Fiddly. Apple responded more than a limit to a problem refusing to grip completely: Why not just make the iPad more like Mac?
Now, Apple has done the job that has sworn in. Ipados 26 turned the iPad a full -fledged multi -tasking, window winging, clicking on the traffic light button, supporting the external display, comprising the compromised Apple computer. Windows can be overlap. The cursor is important. There is even a menu bar. It is fluid, capable and familiar. And while it’s not Caffeine A Mac – easily, it should be in some ways More Like one-it is certainly not a member of the job era. It eventually abandons the original pitch.
The past of jobs still bother the member
And yet. Burned in iPados 26 is a throwback mode: A full screen apps option that removes modern multi -tasking degree in which the iPad has not seen in years. No windows. Not even a distribution view. It is an app at a time, which has all the purity of the original iPad.
Which means that the iPad is no longer sitting between the two extremes. Switch between them. The iPad is now two devices in one, the iPad that Steve Jobs thought and the machine for which the profession has requested. A touch screen consumption slate And A window productivity machine. An apple spark.
So, yes, an iPad running iPados 26 can still contain the soul of the original iPad, which is wandering deep into the settings, waiting for the ons to be on. But the dream of jobs focused between a smartphone and laptop, the beautiful third device category has died effectively.
In 2010, the man himself said: “Do we have a third type of product between a laptop and a smartphone, to set up a wonderful product? The bar is too much. It would be better to do something important. We think we have done it.” Indeed you did. But this is not the last. And this is the best because, if it were, it would not have been a member itself.
