Is the M1 iPad Pro Apple’s Most Boring Release Ever?
It’s Pro Display XDR compatible, don’t you know…
I was convinced that this was going to be an iPad-only event.
Now, I’m seriously glad it wasn’t.
Following perhaps the most ludicrously elaborate transition of any Apple event so far (a disguised Tim Cook circling the roof of Apple’s ‘spaceship’ campus on foot before diving deep into its bowels to undertake a Mission Impossible-inspired processor swap), we were presented with the new iPad Pro.
During an event that delivered an overdue iMac redesign, the long-rumoured AirTags and, finally, a not-terrible Apple TV remote, the iPad Pro was easily the most boring announcement of the day.
Let me explain why.
The rumours were way off
There had been a gentle undercurrent of rumours relating to a forthcoming M1-powered iPad Pro. But they remained far beneath the surface, not least because many people dismissed them for being way off the mark.
