Originally Posted by zz9:
“The good thing about the Surface, even the RT, was that it had two totally different and separate UI, a traditional desktop for use with the keyboard and mouse, and the tablet Metro UI for use as a tablet. So on the train on the way to work it's a tablet you can easily use holding in one hand. Get to the office and it's a laptop with proper, full, menus and controls. IMHO W10 is a step backwards from that dual mode, hence I tried it on my tablet but went back to 8.1.
But with the iPad Pro you don't get that. It has a tablet UI, full stop. And you can only run apps, hence Adobe demoing a cut down, app version, of its software. The Surface can run apps and programs. You have the choice.
So what kinds of business uses do you foresee the iPad Pro being used for? Who will use it?”
I can't think of many businesses that would be able to use it. The iPad has been growing it's business market without really trying.
As I said, there are many businesses that have developed dedicated apps for their enterprise, they are consumer facing, they do not need windows based desktops to do their work.
Any business that does high powered processing would not be using a tablet/desktop hybrids so the surface wouldn't provide the answer.
I've just bought a surface pro to support a contract I'm working on, but I've got it because of its tablet properties, not because it can run a desktop.