Why iPad Air > iPad Pro

March 10, 2022

Now that the iPad Air has gotten the M1 chip, there's less daylight than ever between the Air and it's high-end sibling, the iPad Pro.

Our writer Ed Hardy argues fairly convincingly that there's little reason now for most folks to plump for the Pro.

I was almost convinced, until I read that there's one must-have feature on the Pro that the Air doesn't have.

Can you guess what it is? Hint: It has to do with my boat race!

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

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One more thing ...

"It makes me feel old, sometimes, when I speak at a campus and I find that what students are most in awe of is the fact that I'm a millionaire. When I went to school, it was right after the Sixties and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in. Now students aren't even thinking in idealistic terms, or at least nowhere near as much. They certainly are not letting any of the philosophical issues of the day take up too much of their time as they study their business majors. The idealistic wind of the Sixties was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that ingrained in them forever." -- Steve Jobs

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