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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by gress on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:13PM (#10195842)
The surface pro is a failure. Apple didn't make a pro tablet earlier because they understood the correct time to introduce such a product.
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by anjc on Thursday September 10, 2015 @06:04AM (#10197104)
By what metrics is it a failure? Because when I last looked at Microsoft's financial statements, their revenue was up due to the Surface (Profit was down for unrelated reasons).

I'm assuming you haven't used a Surface Pro but you can mark my words now, Apple will release a direct copy of the Surface within 3 years. The iPad Pro is a glorified iPad and will be utterly unusable for doing anything professional, so it's not a copy at this stage.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by gress on Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:29AM (#10198221)
This is already demonstrably false. The iPad is already in use for professional purposes, and if you'd watched it, you have seen the stage demo prove you wrong.
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by anjc on Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:39AM (#10198286)
What professional purposes?
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by gress on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:52AM (#10198753)
Medicine, CAD, Commercial Aviation, Finance, Retail, Graphic Design & Illustration...

Pretty much everything serious.

https://www.apple.com/business/mobile-enterprise-apps/health...

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