I need to use a mouse with my ipad pro. What gives?

I can see why BT won't work well for you. I don't record or play live music. I just listen to music. Sound quality is extremely important to me, so I have quite the investment in BT headphones. Jaybird buds for travel which are excellent and Parrot Zik 3 (beyond fabulous BTW) and Audio Technica for over the ear when I'm home or at office.

Those are good points you made especially about portability. That is the one reason i did not consider other keyboards but bought the keyboard folio 3rd gen for the 12.9. For the mouse support if it's implemented in the final realease, am going to use my magic trackpad 2 that i got for my iMac. It's flat enough and will fit in my sleeve as i bought a slim sleeve that i place the iPad in so that the pencil is protected. So for me, it remains light. I've not seen anyone testing with the trackpad thou and think it should work via bluetooth.

I bought a portable power bank in case i run out of juice but that has not happened once. Even when i worked for almost 10 hours, still had 18% juice left. I mostly use the power bank for my iPhone when i do a lot on it in the day.

agreed, I do not really understand Apple pricing politics sometimes, for an equivalent device/macbook/macbook air/IpadPro at 12.9 inches, the ipad, with stylus and keyboard is around 1500ish USd, when the macbooks are at 13001400ish, may save on the keyb though , but considering only apple devices (stylus and keyboard for ipad).

And agree as well, the ipad/brydge keyb/mouse/hard disk (if compatible, i understood SD would be, not sure external hard drive will be) is already very similar to a mackbook setup, this is why i use the apple keyboard that does not take much more than the regular cover, i tried the logitech some years ago and it ended up in my drawer for the exact same reason you mentioned, too bulky, adding too much weight, but it was for the first ipad which did not have an apple keyb cover. If i was using the brydge (I love the apple cover keyb anyway) it would be more as a "dock station" that stays on a desk.

Hope at some point, we may be able to use an Ipad, keyb/stylus/ and iphone as track pad AND SD reader, then we would definitely be on a nice nomadic experience... plus my picoprojector that fits in my jeans pocket, i would never go back to any classical style of computers. (my colleagues already laugh when they see me open my bag with what i call my portable apple desk in meetings :D )

That is correct. This is not the right place to post anything to Apple.

If you wish for Apple to read anything you need to post it at Product Feedback - Apple

I've been told that that Apple decision-makers do track feature requests from these forums.

You have been told wrong. Apple tracks requests at https://apple.com/feedback. Period. That's it.

You asked about records:

To be clear, that almost 18 THOUSAND posts and 2.6 MILLION views.

I just got the Brydge for iPad Pro 11 Keyboard. That with my Apple Pencil and it's a pretty darn tootin' fantastic combination. I use my Pencil like a mouse, more than I jot notes or draw with it.

No. It is not. If you need a mouse, you need a computer and not a phone.

I thought that is what I said, he needs to get a real computer to replace his iPad, the giant iPhone.

The OP or whoever can buy Apple keyboard, suppose to work like regular laptop, if they “insist” they want mouse.

You did.

But clearly it has been missed or overlooked. 😉

BORg529 wrote:

The OP or whoever can buy Apple keyboard, suppose to work like regular laptop, if they “insist” they want mouse.

That still won't give them a mouse.

I apparently mistsken, that keyboard had some kind of touch mouse, like regular laptop computer.😊

iOS doesn't support mice or trackpads.

If you need to use a mouse, you have the wrong device.