So how well do these professional level apps work on the iPad? Well, well enough, but in the case of Final Cut, it’s definitely not quite there yet. Just look at The Verge’s review above to see that. But that’s less an iPad problem and a software development problem, where currently the developers aren’t quite done putting this version of Final Cut together. Either way, what Final Cut and Logic Pro represent still stands, which is Apple making these products a little more capable per year in the road to making them just as capable as a MacBook. And that’s pretty much all I’ve been asking from Apple and everyone else for years. After all the technology has kind of always been there. True Apple’s M-series processors provide a much needed breakthrough that makes doing all this much easier, but as a other tech journalists and analysts have noted, it’s really more about the incentive of big tech companies to do it rather than the technologies not being able to do the task. So even now, while Apple could have probably just made Mac OS itself run on the iPad or made all Mac apps available on iPads, it’s taking a distinctly Apple-like approach to it, where rather than making these two device classes essentially able to do the same things, they’re opting for the model that gives them the most money from both.

What I mean by this is that, for starters, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro will each be available for a $20 subscription, on top of the $50 subscriptions per year on Mac or the single, $300 purchase for a lifetime. This means that Apple has turned the iPad into not just a portable Final Cut machine, but a portable money making extension of the Final Cut product. Almost every Final Cut user with an iPad will feel tempted to cough up an extra $20 just so that they can better edit their videos on the go. Now will that be worth it? That depends on the user. But considering a huge chunk of Final Cut users actually  paid the $300 once of payment to escape subscriptions, this means Apple has reigned in those users, as well as other Logic Pro users to keep paying it an extra $20 a year they didn’t need to worry about before. And this is what Apple truly wants to turn the iPad into. Not an independent , powerful alternative to the Mac, despite the fact that it can now become that, but instead a companion to the Mac that will make you pay a little extra per year for every Pro service you already use on your Mac, whether that be Apple’s own apps, or even competitors like Adobe’s apps, which if you pay for your subscription on the iPad, Apple gets a cut of that money too. And as you can guess, I’m not too thrilled about that.

But , this is Apple we’re talking about, and at this point if I really just expected them to do exactly what I wanted, then the joke is on me. Hopefully this boom in iPads becoming more capable forces Google and Co. to get their acts together and make their mobile tablets more capable too, without any of the caveats.

Especially Microsoft. Seriously just what in the world are you doing with mobile tablets Microsoft.