At home we are four family members and each one has his personal iPad. And the truth is that observing for a while how we use them, 95% of the time we do it in horizontal format. We only do it vertically when the application requires it, and it seems like a nuisance.
Apple has realized that today we users do not use the iPad as it was originally designed. And it seems that they are finally going to turn it. In Cupertino they are considering manufacturing the next iPad Pro in landscape format. And I think it's a good idea.
A new rumor has just appeared in Twitter, and note that the next iPad Pro will be manufactured in landscape format. That means the rear and front camera layout and the rear apple logo will rotate 90 degrees to give the iPad Pro a horizontal layout, ditching the one it has always had. vertical, as if it were a huge iPhone.
One clue that Apple is going to "rotate" all future iPads 90 degrees is that currently Apple logo on black screen when you restart an iPad it already appears horizontally. Another clue is that the apple printed on the back of the Magic Keyboard is also horizontal. That does not "stick" too much with the vertical logo of the current iPad.
It is very clear that since the incorporation of the M1 processor In the new iPad Pro, the company increasingly wants an iPad to work like a laptop, and that necessarily involves using it constantly in landscape.
In fact, currently the only difference that separates a iPad Pro M1 with Magic Keyboard of a Macbook Air M1 is the touch screen of the first, and the operating system. The new iPad Pro M1 could run without messing up a version of macOS Big Sur adapted to its touch screen, but Apple has not wanted to do so, and has to continue with iPadOS 15. Anyway ...