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radarthekat said:

iPad has always been about how the tools we use for doing work change according to the work we need to do, and that in turn changes the work we do, to take advantage of the tools available.  

In 1960, it took a roomful of people with mechanical calculators on their desks to do the work that later generations could easily perform with a spreadsheet.  But when spreadsheets and other business applications came along, the work they made possible was wholly different from the problem they were initially designed to solve.

iPads, and specifically the iPad Pro, is not designed to do the same work that a PC traditionally did.  Those who are suggesting the iPad Pro is a poor replacement for a PC are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.  The tablet form factor has its own destiny, which will take on many, but not all the tasks of a PC, while enabling new forms of work and productivity that PCs are less adapted to accommodate.

I am not a power user. My iMac is almost 8 years old. Yet, the iPad Pro cannot replace it. I bought a drone, which got me into light video editing with iMovie. The thought of trying to do this on my iPad with my fingers, after importing from the sd card hanging in a dongle, horrifies me.  I use spreadsheets a lot for budgeting and comparison shopping, but I’m not too interested in reaching across a keyboard to select cells.  Writing letters and documents is probably fine; but again, text selection with my arm suspended horizontally is not ideal (just editing this comment on my non-pro iPad sucks).  

So, what work is there are that an iPad Pro is so well-suited for that us old fogies are not able to grasp?  it’s not productivity software. It’s not movie editing. Maybe it’s drawing or something?  How many cartoonists and graphic artists and part-time DJs can Apple sell these to?

ericthehalfbee said:

Given the astounding resources available at Harmon from all of their professional divisions this speaker is a joke. Harmon easily has the resources to make a HomePod competitor with their vast experience in audio and digital signal processing. To come up with a generic two-way speaker (woofer & tweeter) at this price range is insulting.

HomePod is 2-way, even given the “astounding resources” at Apple (which dwarf those at Harmon).  The proof is in the pudding. Try listening for yourself before judging based solely on specs like speaker counts. 

I’ve had mine for a week. I have very long fingers and can deal with the size, but I think many more would sell if this phone were smaller and lighter.  However, the LCD display’s bezels probably dictated this size in order to keep the bezel/body ratio in an acceptable range. 

Bought mine on Saturday.  I think I am in love with this phone - so fast (coming from 6), screen is crisp and bright and I cannot see any pixels, and the battery life is phenomenal.  Even just call quality, probably due to better speakers and mics, is way better for both ends of the conversation.

The only possible criticism I have is that it is a little on the heavy side, but it's nothing unmanageable.

Base config is 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD. Not 32GB.