The iPad line continues to get better and better. The basic iPad is a real wolf in sheep’s clothing, especially for under £350. The iPad Air is a hell of a machine - so capable, and so slick. And the iPad Pro, though now more of a niche buy than ever because the iPad Air achieves 95% of what it does, has locked down that niche more tightly than Barcelona has locked down Messi, albeit with less passive aggression.
And yet, since the introduction of the new-design iPad Pro in 2018, I’m getting the feeling that in trying to introduce even more options to iPad, Apple has actually been unsolving some previously solved problems.
The glory of the iPad is that it’s a blank slate. A slab. It works from any angle, whether you’re sitting on the sofa or in the middle of a skydive. Early accessories followed this principle too - the excellent Smart Cover of the iPad 2 cleaned and protected the screen, and held the iPad at convenient angles with a small footprint, and that was it!