The embargo has lifted and the iPad Pro review fest has begun. Apple gave a bunch of websites and publications four days to test the 2018 iPads, and the early verdicts are in.
What’s interesting to me in reading them is that Apple has made its marketing job very much harder by positioning the device so strongly as ‘a computer.’ Most reviews judged the device in that light, and found it wanting.
But a couple of them suggested that perhaps that view is old-fashioned, and that the next generation will consider a finger and pencil a much more natural device than a trackpad. Check out the Mashable and Washington Post reviews below for that perspective …
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