Not gonna lie, the ads on this are kinda getting me, as someone who just transitioned maining an iPad Pro as my primary computer since December. Personally, it does everything I personally want out of a really flexible form factor and I enjoy that it shares app compatibility with my phone.
The keyboard is the best part of this reveal — the trackpad, the hovering lift hinge, the USB-C passthrough charging, and the scissor-switch backlit keyboard? Woo! And it works on my current iPad that's just barely 3 months old? Woo!
The only regret I have about my iPad purchase at all is settling for WiFi-only model. I should've gotten LTE model and paid extra on my T-Mobile plan to get it a connection and SIM card. Trade-in isn't generous enough for me to bite so soon on a whole new iPad, but that keyboard... I think I will have to make it mine, assuming the old style camera bump from my 2018 model doesn't look super weird in the new iPhone 11-esque camera space. I might just fill the empty space in with a fun sticker or something.
The keyboard's design and features seem to just about round out a lot of my small interfacing gripes with the iPad Pro as a daily machine — it's truly one of my favorite Apple designs in a while, knowing now that I can get by with an iPad Pro as my main personal computer. Unlike my Logitech one that I currently have, it has the smart connector so no need to charge the keyboard itself separately; it's more compact; the iPad itself can be removed from the keyboard/case much more easily if I need to use it in pure tablet mode; the typing experience will probably be better than these decent but kinda squishy Logitech keys; trackpad support brings the last interfacing issue I have with iPad — operating via touchscreen is fine for the most part but there are times where I wish I could just use a trackpad instead and now I can have it, all in one seamless enclosure. :)
