Pair a mouse to iPad Pro?

It wasn't “missed”!

iOS is a touch ONLY mobile OS.

It been a touch OS for over 10 years.

Don't look for this to change any time in the foreseeable future.

As someone who has been innovating technology for years, I humbly disagree that a mouse will soon be replaced. Nobody has figured out how to replace the efficiency of a mouse or trackpad. Using an on screen keyboard is not as efficient as keyboard just as using your own finger for a pointing device is less efficient than a mouse. Sure, for playing games or kids activities a finger is fine. If you plan on doing any word processing where you need to highlight text, change fonts, or do any reformattng studies have shown people of all ages are more than twice as efficient with a mouse. Same is true for spreadsheets and other business applications.

People have said for over a decade we will replace mice (and keyboards) with optical technology. In 1999 people said in a few years we will type with our eyes just by looking at the screen. Hasn't happened in 18 years. One thing is true, the mouse and keyboard still remain more efficient. While it's cool and trendy to talk about tech that will replace them, those devices are more efficient and are not close to going away.

Doubtful.

Optical input or some “in air” holographic pointing device input or some other unknown future technology WILL replace the trackpad and mouse sooner than you think and Apple is already ahead on that curve by removing the mouse or trackpad interface from their mobile iDevices.

Like Apple obsoleting the floppy and optical drives and moving to Intel CPUs from IBM/Motorola/Freescale Power PC CPUs and the move toward all SSD Macs, in the foreseeable future.

The next generation of computer users won't need or even know about mice or trackpad interfaces.

Keyboarding may, also, be radically different, but similar to its current incarnation.

My young cousins type well using the iPad software/virtual keyboard. Better than I do!

They don't need external physical keyboards to type on.

Not really.

Like many manufacturers, Apple is 5-10 years out!

What Apple product/s that are out today were being developed and honed from anywhere from 3-5 years, ago.

No large product manufacturer develops and design product on a year to year basis.

Products are developed over time and those products that are ready to be released for that year are released.

Microsoft has a full large screen, high resolution touch screen digital drawing computer designed to mimic an artist's drafting table!

The Microsoft Windows Surface Pro!

It has the input options of touch, stylus pen and/or mouse/trackpad (for now) and uses a new control dial as a brand new input/interface device.

The move away from mice and trackpads has already started!

You really think that new technologies and computers 10 years from now, maybe sooner will still be using mice and trackpads?

There are stick on devices for mobile tech that can replace the old fashioned gaming joysticks for playing those types of games on mobile devices.

There is a WHOLE generation of users who are working with mobile devices that never use a mouse or trackpad on the devices.

And I’ll reiterate, the new Surface Pro Studio uses touch, stylus and dial as its primary input devices with the mouse/trackpad being a secondary input device. The screen is very large on a the Surface Studio.

The touch and stylus interface is very finely integrated.

Touch and stylus and other future computer interactive input technologies are going to replace hardware mice and trackpads.

Full blown computers integrated into even larger tablet-like forms, like the Microsoft Studio lineup, are going to be the next gen computers and will not need a mouse or a trackpad!

You are entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to mine.

The shift away from mice and trackpads is already starting, now.

I believe in less than 20 years, the mouse and trackpad will be a thing of the past.

And for many professionals, unfortunately I do not fall into tis category, it is much quicker and easier to initiate/invoke many computer menu commands by memorising and using keyboard shortcuts than reaching for and navigating the computer screen with a mouse and trackpad.

But, with touch or stylus, it’s much quicker to invoke menu commands.

Also, for artistic work on computer, drawing directly on a computer screen is much more preferable to drawing with a mouse/trackpad or digitising tablet where you have to develop additional spatial hand/eye coordinations between the input devicd and screen to utilise these input devices.

Again, you are entitled to your professional opinion, I am entitled to mine.

We will both see what will pan out in the end, if I live 20 more years!

Mice aren't supported, iPads and iOS are touch screen, there isn't a pointer for a mouse to control.

So much for Apple’s claim that the iPad can replace your laptop or computer without a mouse or trackpad.

The only thing missing from Surface Book 2 is iOS or MacOS.

A mouse and trackpad will be passé input devices headed for the technology history books before long.

As long as there are computiers, the trackpad and mouse will be around. Especially with Apple.

I think you are way out in the distant future. Apple just got a patent for their Apple Pencil for the iPhone.

Agree about the usefulness of a mouse when word processing.

And it ships with a mouse and keyboard.

You just keep holding your breath dare!

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