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What two extra features would make Apple’s new iPad Pro perfect?

Numerous images viewed using the photo app, VSCO, on the screen of the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which is Apple’s best tablet ever. Photo: Kif Leswing
Numerous images viewed using the photo app, VSCO, on the screen of the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which is Apple’s best tablet ever. Photo: Kif Leswing
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The latest tablet is the tech giant’s best – powerful, thin and great to use – but it still lacks a few things that could bring it into line with other professional workstations

The new iPad Pro is definitely the best tablet Apple has ever made, but it’s still not perfect.

In 2010, the late Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, demonstrated the iPad’s capabilities by sitting down on a big comfy chair with it, on stage in front of hundreds of people, so they could see it being used to read a book or browse the internet.  

Recently, though, Apple has promoted the idea of using the iPad for doing work. Real work.

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The first iPad Pro, which launched in 2015, had a huge, 12.9-inch display and supported an Apple-made keyboard and a stylus, called Apple Pencil.

Apple also added a lot of productivity features for the iPad in iOS 11 last year, including a dock, drag and drop, multi-tasking, and a way to get files from your main computer – all features that are very much like those of a laptop. 

Clearly, Apple wants people to do work on the iPad.

Yet if that’s the case, Apple needs to consider adding these two crucial features, which would bring its tablet much more in line with other professional workstations.

A proper file system

Apple’s iCloud Drive allows you to access saved files across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Photo: Dave Smith/Business Insider
Apple’s iCloud Drive allows you to access saved files across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Photo: Dave Smith/Business Insider
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