Apple replied with the iPad Pro, which brought more power than anyone who knew what to do. The original iPad had debuted at $ 499, which Jobs supported would put in many hands. The professional had a price of a Mac but was still combined with an operating system designed to point the web pages, browse the photos and the painting of the fingers. The Apple pencil has arrived next to it, a stylus of apple. Did Apple “blown”? Well, no, because the iPad does not request A stylus and provided an answer to users who needed precision input.
But it was a clear removal from the original vision, in which Apple has continued to exchange over the years, an apparent admission that perhaps users wanted more than a replaced iPhone. However, the company has also retained, reluctant to risk that Mac cannibalize sales. So instead of allowing the iPad to become the device he wanted to be, Apple preferred to smooth the transition between Devices, leaving random and power users in the same way in a strange limbo.
Between a Mac and a difficult place
Every year, the iPad further walked away from Jobs’ vision and yet somehow managed to leave people dissatisfied. Apple added complexity for typical users and has continued to reinvent the wheel in ways that they have always left the users of power they wanted most. Attention has been replaced by confusion.
Apple insisted on the fact that the iPad was not a replacement of the laptop, so he sent a magnetic keyboard that made it seem. The mouse support was added reluctantly. M1 Chips arrived in a flame of glory without any need for crushing, on devices that could not yet optimize the second screen output for external display.
So the director of the internship presented himself in 2022, a window model on iPad and Mac that nobody asked and almost nobody liked. Clumsy. Fiddly. A response too designed to a problem with which Apple refused to face completely: why not make the iPad more similar to a Mac?
Now, Apple has done the thing he swore that he would never do it. iPados 26 transforms the iPad into a full-blown cumpollitking, wrangling, trafficking-cut-the-play that clicks on an Apple in external support, which is compromising. Windows can overlap. The cursor is pointed. There is also a menu bar. It is fluid, capable and familiar. And while it is not Enough a Mac – in a unwilling way, somehow should be Moreover Like one, it is certainly not an iPad of the working era. In the end he leaves the original tone.
Ghost by jobs’ feast still the iPad
Nevertheless. Buried in iPados 26 is a way of returning to the past: an option of full screen apps that removes modern multitasking to a certain extent that iPad has not seen for years. No window. Not even a divided sight. It is an app at a time, with all the purity of the original iPad.
This means that the iPad is no longer found between two extremes: instead, you switch for a while. The iPad is now two devices in one, the iPad that Steve Jobs has imagined and the machine that the professionals have implied. A Touchscreen consumer blackboard AND A window productivity machine. A SPORK apples.
So, yes, an iPad that performs iPados 26 can still contain the soul of the original iPad, lurking deeply in the settings, waiting to be on. But the works dream of a category of third focused and elegant device between smartphones and laptops is actually dead.
In 2010, the man himself said: “We have the one who needs to establish a third category of products, a fantastic product between a laptop and smartphone? The bar is quite high. He must be better to do some key things. We think we have done it.” Indeed you did it. But it didn’t last. And it is for the best because, if he had done it, the iPad himself could not last.
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