5 Reasons NOT to Buy the iPad Pro!
Apple's biggest announcement, both literally and figuratively, from their Fall keynote was the iPad Pro. It boasts a massive 12.9" Retina display, an A9X processor, and has an optional stylus and keyboard. Starting at $799 for the base 32 GB model, it's certainly a high-end device. Did Apple do enough to make the iPad Pro 'Pro' enough? Is it worth the dough? And should you buy it? Here's 5 reasons you might want to pass.
5. Price stack up
By the time you're getting this to where you want it, for me that would be 128 GB Wi-Fi, Apple Pencil, and Smart Keyboard, that's $1,227! Or in other words, more the same as a 13" MacBook Air with a 256GB SSD and 4GB of RAM. Yikes.
4. No I/O!
For a potential laptop replacement, you'd expect USB (USB C, I'm looking at you!), an SD card reader, HDMI or micro-HDMI, or any other type of connection or data port. But nope. Just a headphone jack, lightning port, and "smart connector" for keyboards.
3. ACCESSORIES
Apple offers two really, really cool accessories, neigh, neccesities, for the iPad Pro. The $99 Apple Pencil and the $179 Smart Keyboard. To get the most out of the iPad Pro, these guys are definitely helpful, but for $278 combined...this is becoming an even more expensive device!
2. iOS 9
This thing is now just a massively blown up iPhone. It runs iOS 9, so there's no differentiating between any contemporary iPad that Apple offers. It's also essentially the same experience as an iPhone...even going down to a device such as the iPhone 4s! There are some iPad Pro specific apps from Adobe and the like, but there aren't any special iPad Pro 'pro' features that would entice 'pro' users. Not even home screen widgets. Come on, Apple.
At least there's multi-app support now.
1. Price and Configuration
This guy STARTS at $799, and goes all the way to $1079. It also only comes in two storage options, 32GB, 128GB, and then 128GB w/ LTE for $799, $949, and $1079 respectively. Why only two storage options? Why does it start with a dismal 32GB? And why is 128GB the max? Who knows.
