[nso95]

I once idealistically believed that tablets were the PC of the future. The iPad pro is definitely within the top 5 most disappointing hardware purchases I've made. Terrible UX. Trying to be both a laptop and a tablet has made it bad at being both of those things.

[reassembled]

I feel like the main reason that the experience is so bad is because nobody is working to unify a touch OS experience and a desktop OS experience. My perception as a user is that the iPad OS and macOS teams are completely siloed.

There are aspects of iPad OS that are becoming reminiscent of desktop counterparts but they always seem half baked.

The file management experience on iPad in particular drove me up the wall when my wife asked me how to do the simple task of transferring a several hundred meg image from her Windows laptop and import it into ProCreate. The iPad OS had some UI to do this task but it was painfully buggy and slow, and hung up constantly while trying to copy the file.

[woojoo666]

I tried switching from Surface to iPad Pro, and was woefully underwhelmed. Just felt like I couldn't get anything done. A big one was the lack of browser extensions (at the time) which I needed to organize my tabs and sessions, and while they are slowly closing the gap, it's still far from a daily driver in my eyes

[TheLoafOfBread]

I went through similar development, only with Android tablet. Sometimes I use it to show me things, sometimes I play games on it while listening to YouTube videos from my phone.

Most of the time it is just sitting in the stand. Very narrow usability.