Comment: The iPad paradox

The debate has accompanied the iPad since its birth: does the tablet have a right to exist? Even Apple feels compelled to justify the iPad. For me, the answer is as clear as the tap water in the Allgäu: of course it has a right to exist!

If you ignore the time I wear the Watch on my arm, the iPad is probably the Apple device I use the most in my private life. For surfing, reading newspapers, magazines and technology news. For streaming music, news and sometimes a series. For writing emails, chats, notes and shopping lists. For reading music. With its compact dimensions, it fits better than a MacBook on the table of a train, long-distance bus or plane, even with a keyboard. Yes, even with a 12.9 or 13 inch screen diagonal.

I'm nowhere near exhausting the performance of the previous top models. A slimmer and lighter device would be more important to me for traveling - the last generations have become increasingly thicker and heavier. The iPad Pro now presented fulfills this wish: at 579 grams, the largest Apple tablet weighs 52 grams less than my third generation. Compared to its direct predecessor, it is even 103 grams lighter - an impressive reduction. (Incidentally, this makes a mockery of the name "iPad Air", as it is thicker and heavier than the Pro).

An opinion by Sebastian Trepesch

Sebastian Trepesch works for the heise magazine Mac & i. In addition to Apple hardware and software, he is responsible for photography, but is currently more concerned with organizational matters than with his own texts.

Measured against my wish list, Apple has hit the nail on the head. The other new functions and features (see test) such as the impressive OLED display, the sophisticated photo scan or the stylus packed with electronic components are more than just nice extras: they are Apple's commitment to the iPad. Despite this very pleasing development, I have to admit to myself as an iPad lover: It's still more convenient to do your tax return on a MacBook, and it's the only way to manage photos or other files properly. The iPhone fits in your pocket. Both are indispensable.

And that remains the big iPad paradox: I could do without the device I use the most.

But I don't want to.

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