Tab Sweep, iPad Pro Edition: May 2024

Been catching up on iPad news since last Tuesday’s event. I’m not going to wade into the “Crush” discourse — not my realm — but I’ve been interested in the perspectives of reviewers and those who have a vested interest in the further evolution of iPad as a platform.

Non-Reviews

I’m starting with a couple of non reviews because they’re frankly more interesting. Both of these have a lot in them, but much of it is really important for Apple to figure out as I hinted at before the event:

• Federico Viticci’s written a barnburner of an article where he doesn’t review the device but talks about the yawning gap between the state of iPad and the incredible hardware.
• Steve Troughton-Smith published his iPad Pro manifesto with his typically more development-focused perspective.

And of course, Michael Tsai has rounded up similar links.

Reviews

Broken out into categories by media.

Video

• Christopher Lawley
• Dave2D
• iJustine’s review and her first impressions
• MKBHD’s first impressions
• Snazzy Labs’s first impressions, with lovely technical details
• Tyler Stalman

Words

• Daring Fireball
• Fast Company, which includes a look at the new M2 iPad Air
• Six Colors
• The Verge

Podcasts

These are famously difficult to share in a usable way — find and listen to them in your podcast app of choice — but some of the more interesting conversations I’ve heard on the subject.

• On Upgrade, Jason Snell talked with Federico about his MacStories article and Jason’s review and what iPad Pro is up against.
• Two episodes from The Vergecast, one on first impressions in person by David Pierce along with some really interesting commentary by Nilay Patel and Alex Cranz, and the second more with a segment by David focused on his review.