Back in 2010, when Steve Jobs came to the fore to present the original iPad, Apple's idea was to introduce the tablet to the market as a product capable of everything. A total machine. Now that the crisis arrives in the format, it is shown, in some way, that something that works for everything can be something that does not work for anything at all well. Bill rise of the Surface format it forces the apple to risk or, rather, to give its iconic tablet its own identity.
Un iPad can act as book physical, or camera of photos, or of computer or video console or TV or it can even be used to make phone calls, if one has the time and technical expertise to facilitate it. Still, it beats none from these dedicated and specialized gadgets in their own sphere.
The iPad was born as a large format iPhone
It is true that with Android the question is much more bloody, since the optimization for tablets in most applications is conspicuous by its absence. Still, the underlying idea behind the iPad is, simplifying ... What could be done with a Big iPhone?
iOS It is still an extremely powerful tool and it also seems very logical that someone at some point thought that many of its virtualities were being lost in a format of 3,5 inches.
iPhone 6 Plus: the decline begins
At the time, Apple boasted that the size of his terminal was perfect, because one could cover the entire surface of the screen with a single finger. Still, the visionaries missed that we have two hands and a larger panel offers more area of work y display, very common tasks in a multimedia center.
As was logical, and many years behind the other manufacturers, the phablet format reaches the iPhone and the iPad it begins to be something not so essential. In fact, in the large Apple terminal it already incorporates some of the exclusive functions of the tablet. The iPad mini, which had been very successful in the first generations, loses demand at forced marches and the 9.7 model is touched.
The iPad and the pencil analogy
Just under a year before the arrival of the 6 iPhone Plus, Apple reformulated its tablet by shortening the dimensions of the frames and lightening the cover to get a tremendously till y light. To this device I accompany the one that probably, in my opinion, the ad Apple's brightest, which is saying a lot:
The message here is clear: iPad it's an invention so cool it can be bought in pencil and now it's even more lightweight y powerful. The one-size-fits-all philosophy was getting stronger and stronger. The idea that the PC was dying was accentuated. But in 2014 the iPad Air 2 and tablets in general begin to sell less.
iPad Pro Much more than a computer?
With the phablets eating up the ground previously occupied by tablets, and given the obvious that large screens should also serve productive purposes, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), takes a radical turn to the concept of its tablet and from being light it becomes «answer«. As we have already commented on some occasion, it seems to us that there is a lot of rhetoric and very little reality in the change.
El Smart Keyboard does nothing that accessories couldn't Bluetooth that were previously sold, except of course, connect without prior linking and not have to load it individually. Still there were keyboards of Logitech or Belkin more comfortable and advanced. The announcement of the iPad Pro no longer suggested that the computer was out of date, but that it wanted to buy from it.
Why the iPad should stop being a big iPhone
This article is not intended to be anything more than a kind of basic statement. The iPad has always been in tow of the iPhone, receiving the same features in the same version of iOS, but things are going to be very complicated for Apple if they continue down that path. We believe that the iPad should begin its own evolution, divergent.
The iPad has to stop being an iPhone but it also doesn't have to aspire to be a Surface. The conditions under which the tablet evolves are full of possibilities and often it is the independent developers who find the key. For example, the approach to MacBook and with a touch Bar it's a pretty nifty resource.
The easy thing is to say what does not have to be. The difficult thing is to determine what is. In this sense, it is key to take advantage of 9.7 inch possibilities and a lightweight chassis and think about what things can be optimal if we compare it with an iPhone, on the one hand, and a PC, on the other.
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), He is the one who should lead this regeneration and probably in a low-advertising way, but it is a matter of looking for different formulas. For example, it is regrettable to find ourselves small buttons in as much space as there is on the screen of an iPad and this occurs simply due to an excessive translation literal of the iPhone interface language.
In short, if we have a screen capable of show more informationorganized differently than an iPhone with the option to do the job more fluid, direct and tangible that on a computer, thanks to the touch controls and iOS, it would be a crime not to take advantage of those qualities. In conclusion: developers (Apple first of all) must start thinking about 9.7 (or 10,5) inches.