P: Full version app for Apple iPad Pro

Yes, it would be great to have Photoshop CC on the iPad Pro 12.9 model. The pencil is great and the CPU power should be sufficient, because Affinity Photo for iPad is working without any delay.
Now with iOS 11 there is a file system and Apple under Tim Cook is much more open.
Currently I am using PS and LR on my iMac Retina and it would be a pain to buy a MS-Surface Pro just to run PS.

I'm so pissed off that Apple and Adobe don't offer the strong support for the iPad Pro, that I'm about to give it away to my nephew.  Wake up Apple and Adobe.  Getting
very lazy and slow!

For digital illustrators being able to use Photoshop on iPad Pro would be amazing. I do use an app like Affinity, but it would be far better to just have it directly on the iPad. The Pro has the specs to support it, they just need to make it happen. They really aren't progressing at the rate they should compared to the hardware being offered.

> Microsoft is ahead of Apple for many years. Your tablet surface pro if you can run any program.>

I'm not going to get a Surface Pro. I have a laptop that works just fine. I'm not going to run Microsoft. So I really don't care if MS is light years ahead of Apple—it is in some areas, mainly hardware options, unacceptable to me as an operating system in others. So the only option for me is to have Adobe produce an app for iOS that is far more full-featured than currently, and I'd prefer ONE such powerful app for pixel editing, another for vector, perhaps combine layout and storytelling—IOW, I'd like more power and flexibility in fewer mobile apps. I wouldn't think twice about plunking down the cash on a new iPad Pro with Apple Pencil if they did. Okay by me they cut the cord to iPads that can't run it, and new apps just for the new iPad Pro is the way to do that.

I think it's perfectly fine to have a dozen itty bitty apps for the consumer (and I do think they can be fun time-wasters for everyone as they are), but I think both pros and enthusiasts would welcome more consolidation as there is on the desktop, and far more flexible, powerful editing.

Such programs would be fine on iOS as it is today, and could be ported to MS and Android, far as I'm concerned. Why shut out any of the major devices?

In the meantime, I'm learning Affinity on the desktop and eventually, when I do upgrade my iPad to an iPad Pro, I may wind up getting Affinity for that, but I'd really prefer the connectivity to my Adobe apps, even though I thus far like Affinity on the desktop as far as it goes. I still prefer, even need, Adobe apps, to do most of the things I do. I don't see that changing anytime soon, so I hope Adobe is working feverishly behind the scenes to compete directly with Affinity for the iPad.  We all know they won't tell us if they are.<G>

Look, this is not a pissing contest. I don’t give a crap about who is lightyears ahead of who and if you like Apple, Microsoft, Red or green, patatoes or pizza. If you are here for a pissing contest to see who can piss the furthest, please leave. This is the wrong thread for that. We like a constructive discussion, to get pro level photo editing software from Adobe on our iPad Pros.

This all has nothing to do with the hard- or software or OS of the iPad Pros. Affinity Photo of Serif is proof that the iPad Pro can run FULL PROFESSIONAL photo editing sofware. I was able to stitch and edit an 1 gigabyte (!) panorama photo, made out of TEN (!) 24 megapixel RAW photos, with Affinity Photo on my IPAD PRO! And as fast as I can do that on my Core i7 laptop with Lightroom CC. Also the benchmarks don’t lie. The hardware and sofware of an iPad Pro is very, very fast and very well optimized. Core i7 fast according to geekbench. And yes, maybe not the newest Core i7 fast, but it is Core i7 fast. iPad Pro’s are waaaaaaaaays faster and have more memory as the minimum specs require for a x86 PC that can run Photoshop CC. I can tell from experience that editing RAW photos on my iPad Pro with Lightroom Mobile runs way better and faster, then editing the same RAW photos with Lightoom CC on my Windows Core i7 laptop with nVidia Graphics. (Yeah I know, Lightroom CC is badly optimized, as Adobe has admitted recently.) But this tread is also proof that there is a NEW market for a proper Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC for the iPad Pros. Look at the people here wanting it! Like I said before and in my earlier posts here, it is not the hardware, nor the software of the iPad. It is Adobe. The only restriction is Adobe. Adobe seems like a sluggish dinosaur. They are missing an opportunity here! A new market to conquer. And we all know what happened to the dinosaurs...

Microsoft is ahead of Apple for many years. Your tablet surface pro if you can run any program.

"iPad ProAnything you can do, you can do better." Ipad pro is a bigger phone. Apple marketing is totally confusing and misleading. You have to know well what is bought.

ipad pro is a marketing

Yep, the new iPad Pros are just as fast as my Core i7 Dell XPS15 laptop from 2012. (Source: Geekbench.) My laptop runs Lightroom CC and PhotoShop CC perfectly fine. Like I said, the hardware of the iPad Pros is not the problem. Affinity Photo is also proof the iPad Pros are fast enough. I made a 145 megapixel, aprrox. 1 GB (!!!) large panorama photo with Affinity Photo, consisting of 10 TIFF files of about 100 MB!!! Wow! Very impressive!

As much as I love what Serif did with Affinity Photo on iPad, I still would love to see a proper Lightroom and Photoshop for the iPad Pro.

I just stitched and rendered 10 100MB TIFFs into one large 145 megapixel ~1 GB (!!!) panorama photo on my iPad Pro 12.9" with Affinity Photo in about 5 minutes. That is about as long as with Lightroom on my Core i7 Dell XPS15 laptop from 2012. Like I said before: it is not the hardware, it is Adobe.

If it was possible to export in TIFF, DNG, PSD or so from Lightroom Mobile, I would use Affinity Photo as my PhotoShop on iPad and Lightroom Mobile as my RAW editor. My problem would be solved.