GoKawiilApple launched the iPad Pro nearly 10 years ago, yet this fall as the M5 iPad Pro arrives powered by iPadOS 26, the company will finally have a great reason for users to go Pro.
The disappointing history of iPad Pro letdowns
When the iPad Pro first came on the scene in 2015, I’ll confess that I thought it was kind of ridiculous.
“A 13-inch iPad? What’s the point?”
Turns out, I ended up loving the iPad Pro. I quickly made it my full-time computer, replacing the Mac.
But many users who have tried iPad Pro in the last decade ended up having the same ambivalence I did at first.
Many of us want the iPad Pro to be a capable computer. But it ends up disappointing. Why?
Because even with features like a 13-inch tandem OLED display, an M4 chip, cursor support, a Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil—the iPad Pro is still “just” an iPad.
Which largely means: it still just runs iPadOS, a blown up iPhone operating system.
This fall, however, Apple has its best shot yet to make the iPad Pro more fully live up to its name.
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