I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s accurate to say Surface Pro presaged the iPad Pro by three years. Surface Pro was a basically different vision (not to mention a severely compromised device). A laptop without a keyboard but with a fan and short battery life. A software stack that requires you to go into the desktop to access non-trivial settings.<p>The iPad Pro is a big iPad. No x86, no fan, touch-based software stack, etc. It&#x27;s not a computer, it doesn&#x27;t have USB ports, it can&#x27;t run desktop software. You can&#x27;t plug it into a dock hook use it as a desktop machine.[1] On purpose. It&#x27;s a very different point in the design space.<p>[1] Some people may consider the iPad Pro to be a Surface 3 with less features. And maybe it is depending on what you want from it. My take is that I&#x27;ve got a quad-core laptop with 16GB of RAM as my workhorse. I don&#x27;t want a compromise device that&#x27;s part tablet and part ULV laptop. I want a companion device with a big screen that I can mark up PDFs on. I want a bigger iPad, not a laptop with a detachable keyboard.