Mouse support for iPad pro

If someone needs a mouse for their iPad Pro (got mine this morning), then he/she is doing something wrong. LOL

The display is huge and touch operation should be very easy, no matter the task.

There are RDP clients available which "translate" the touch operation into mouse movement, so no big deal here.

Take your pick, there are dozens of them in the app store.

kristofior wrote:

Android was also built at first sight for touch support only, but Bluetooth mice are supported, it does not disrupt any existing OS design or touch behavior at all, both are available simultaneously, the only thing it adds is a 'visual pointer', that is used to point and click, as you do with your finger, your finger is your pointer.

But where mouse support is a big 'advantage', is when you need to connect to a Windows Remote Desktop (RDP), let say in fullscreen, without mouse you just cannot do it efficiently, with any of the existing RDP client apps from appstore.

So if iOS10 include Bluetooth mouse support, I would definitively be able to use my iPad as a PC replacement, either to access remotely my Home PC or my Office PC

I'm well aware of why people who want the support want it. I'm not one of them, though. I think it unlikely that Apple will ever implement it but that's just my opinion. Submit your feedback requesting the feature to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I agree! Add Bluetooth mouse support Apple! It's not Pro without it. And right now, iPad pro and keyboard cover are like a Windows laptop with touch screen that you used to say is stupid.

Apple have brought out a pencil. Now add mouse support!

There is a simple solution. If you want to use a mouse, get a Surface Pro.

This is not the only thing the Pro needs, it needs to run OSX, at least Microsoft got that much right.

currently OS X is not as finger friendly though

It probably never will. Tim Cook has been adamant in keeping the iPad line completely separate form the MacBook Line. The iPad is not desinged the same way as a Windows Tablet.

As Tim Cook put it, the Windows tablet does not know what it wants to be, and merging them together means sacrifices to one or the other.

Tim Cook said:

"Anything can be forced to converge, but the problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point where what you have left doesn't please anyone," Cook said. "You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going be pleasing to the user."

http://www.cnet.com/news/tim-cook-knocks-idea-of-macbook-ipad-combo-device/

and

Tim Cook said:

“It’s trying to be a tablet and a notebook and it really succeeds at being neither. It’s sort of deluded.”

http://time.com/4108200/apple-tim-cook-microsoft-book/

Don't expect an OSx running iPad any time soon.

The iPad is not and will likely never be a laptop. So no mouse, and no OSx.

And for what its worth, I'm using a Windows computer with a touch screen. You know how often I use the touch screen on it? Almost never. Merging a Tablet to a computer is not the way to go. Because you'll inevitably end up using only one side of it. So if I'm only using the computer side of it, why do I need to pay for the touch screen?

Same goes the other way, If I'm only using the tablet touch interface, OSx is not handy for that. At the end of the day, if you need a mouse, get a laptop, not an iPad.

I take exception to what your saying here. The iPad pro had the chance to be the first true everything devise. I use a iPad 2 running a Magic Mouse &keyboard, it has turned out to be the best configuration I have seen yet. I use it as intended, as a browser on my Apple TV ( mirroring my screen) , as a mini workstation/computer (this is where OSx would be nice). So I think Apple could have had it all without deluding anything but sales of Mac books. This is why I believe Apple doesn't want a mouse running on a iPad. My iPad is jail broken, it has to be to run the mouse. And you and Tim Cooks response to this is, if you don't like it get a laptop is rather arrogant.

iOS would not have to be changed to run a mouse, yes the devise would have to be jail broken. Jail breaking doesn't change iOS, it simply changes the security settings to allow what Apple won't. letting you decide what apps make sense for you, how you want your devise to feel,look,run. You and many others may say "If you don't like it get a Mac book or Microsoft devise" well for me it just makes sense to have a iPad that can be almost everything.

Headymoe. wrote:

iOS would not have to be changed to run a mouse, yes the devise would have to be jail broken. Jail breaking doesn't change iOS, it simply changes the security settings to allow what Apple won't.`

iOS would have to be changed to support a mouse as it doesn't have mouse support written into it. I think perhaps you don't quite understand jailbreaking. Yes, it removes the security features that make iOS much more secure than Androids. But just jailbreaking the device would miraculously give you mouse support. You'd have to add a tweak that would change iOS.

I understand you think that the iPad could have been some sort of "everything device". Everything accounting to whom? What you may consider necessary in an "everything device" might be different from someone else's. And some of us don't want an "everything device" as we find them filled with features other people want that are useless to us. And, Apple's vision of what it ought to be is apparently not the same as yours.

Headymoe. wrote:

I take exception to what your saying here. The iPad pro had the chance to be the first true everything devise.

The question you fail to ask though, is: Why, why should it be an "everything" device?

I don't want a device that does everything half way. I want a device that does what it does well. And at that the iPad succeeds.

Apple is a company, and needs to think about costs and sales. Adding mouse support correctly would not only impact sales of their Laptop lines, which is a major concern, but would cost money not recouped from the limited number of people you would be gaining by adding mouse support. Most people buying iPads already do not need a mouse. The limited number of people wanting a mouse will not cover the costs of redesigning the interface for it. Jailbreaking may let you add mouse support, but does so again half way. It does not cover all the finger gestures the touch screen was designed for, and the Os is expecting. So you end up being limited to what you can do with it. It may be enough for you, but a company that prides itself on design and interface would probably not leave support half way.

I think the arrogant one here is the one that thinks their needs supersede all others and because they want a mouse, a company who has studied the market and decided not to include one for whatever reasons should bend over without regards to costs or revenue at all.

Why do we need to stop at a mouse, why can't the iPad make toast also? Seriously. I'm sure handful of people would buy an iPad if it made toast.

If you think Mr. Kook is being arrogant, then when you are the head of one of the most important computer manufacturing companies in the world, you can make the choices you want.

Until then, I'm pretty sure he can make whatever decisions he wants to about the company he runs.

Its not arrogance to accept that things cannot do everything, Otherwise, why do we need computers, Tvs, stereos, tablets,and phones. why not just one device that can do it all?

Again you all seem to be missing our point, But by adding a keyboard and mouse to a iPad, we should be looked on like we're questioning the Apple credo. It doesn't change anything about how the iPad was intended to be used, it simply is another dimension to an already great devise. As for your last comment about why we have computers, tvs, phones, stereos, and tablets. I think Apple and everyone else is headed in that direction anyway, total sytem integration. Having mobile, home,travel devises that do it all. I do have an iPhone, ipad, Apple TV,and a Mac. I just don't think I or anyone else needs a to buy a Macbook just to have a mouse and operating system.

Headymoe. wrote:

Again you all seem to be missing our point, But by adding a keyboard and mouse to a iPad, we should be looked on like we're questioning the Apple credo.

There is no "credo" as Apple is a for-profit corporation, not a religion (I acknowledge that there are some "religions" that blur that distinction). You're certainly entitled to your wants and desires in life. But, you also need to accept that not everyone will agree with you and or is obligated to provide you with what you want. In this case, it's Apple which doesn't agree with you. Oh, well. That's life.

Hey I'm just stating my opinion, and you seem to be stating the obvious. So let's leave it at that!