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Become a Six Colors member to read exclusive posts, get our weekly podcast, join our community, and more!A decade later, has the iPad Pro fulfilled its destiny?
It’s not quite right to say that for the first five years of its life, the iPad was an iPhone with a really big screen meant to be a lean-back consumption device. After all, the very first iPad shipped with a productivity accessory in the form of the Keyboard Dock.
But ten years ago, Apple got serious. It shipped the very first iPad Pro, and began a decade-long conversation about whether the iPad could be used for work and even whether or not it was a computer.
Today, the M5 iPad Pro and iPadOS 26 have settled a lot of old scores. But it’s been a long, strange journey from “Hey Siri” day in San Francisco to now.