Writing at Fantastic Maps, Jonathan Roberts has published his review of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil from an illustrator’s point of view:

But the real clincher? It’s faster to illustrate on the iPad Pro, with Pencil, using Procreate, than it is to illustrate on a 16Gb Macbook Pro, with a Wacom Intuous, in Photoshop. That’s astonishing – and places this as a core piece of my professional illustration workflow. It does not replace my laptop – as mentioned, there’s a on of key pieces that the software and hardware can’t do. But I’ll now create maps first on the iPad Pro if I can, and then do the final polish on my laptop. I never expected that to be the case when I picked this up.

A very balanced and honest take on the merits of the iPad Pro, as well as its limitations compared to desktop hardware and software. Apple should listen to people like Jonathan for the future of the platform.