A better iOS on the iPad is the dream of everyone who imagines the near future without laptops. Something that seems obvious and that we all take for granted will eventually happen, but that still seems far away. Or it seemed, until now. Apple launched a few days ago a new iPad no event or big show business as expected at first, among other things, because he did not deserve it. A tablet that comes to face the middle sector of the market, but without major pretensions.
This leaves the window open to an upcoming event, predictably during the course of the WWDC in June, in which we will see news regarding the field of the iPad. These would arrive at an event whose main focus is on software and in which details about an iOS version made with tablets in mind could finally be known. We still don't know anything about future iPad releases, but if you asked me right now I'd say it's quite likely that a specific iOS for the company's tablets will see the light of day with a new device release in the fall.
This would make sense when presenting an iPad Pro and an iOS as a symbiosis of two concepts that finally completely marry and that would be shown to the public as a unique and solid element for the future of computing. An improved iPad along with a specific version of iOS would be the definitive step of the Californian technology to begin to really approach work on tablets.
Let's add Workflow to the equation
To all this we must add the recent Apple purchase of the automation app for iOS Workflow, the most popular and one of the most notable in this field. Why would Cupertino be interested in this app if not to make use of its qualities in future versions of the system? Automation and the possibilities it offers at different levels could be a powerful sales pitch for a hypothetical iPad Pro that wants to expand its range of action in more tasks and uses.
If Apple wants people to start seeing the iPad Pro as a versatile tool for work, it has to come with an operating system that makes a difference from what you can find on the iPhone. You cannot pretend to achieve professional results solely based on add-ons such as Apple Pencil or Smart Keyboard, it is necessary that the device itself allows us to do more than the rest of the products that already incorporate iOS. This is only achievable by making the system that runs on the iPad Pro be something more than a larger version with two or three added tricks compared to the iPad, iPad mini or iPhone.
Workflow is not going to be that factor that helps provide a sea change for a new version of iOS for the iPad Pro, but it will definitely play an important role in it. The changes not only go through making the operating system more complete, but also making it in the simple and intuitive way that iOS has had to show us things all these years. It is a challenge, no doubt, but inescapable.
As soon as the WWDC
As I said before, Apple's annual developer conference can be a perfect setting to introduce these changes to the operating system that would make later tablets better when this version of iOS is released to the general public. If this finally turns out to be the case, we would have about two months left before that dream we talked about at the beginning is a little closer to coming true.
At the moment there is no information about how this version of iOS could be, but we will be attentive to any news that arises in this regard. Will this be the end of the iPad as we know it?
