With the new version of iOS 9 for iPad, announced at WWDC, the touch-sensitive QuickType keyboard now has the ability to transform into a trackpad whenever you set down two fingers on the keyboard portion of the screen. Simply move those fingers to the left and the cursor moves with them.
I haven't seen these new developments in action and I wonder what this means for the iPad as a device format. Is this a simple and welcome enhancement of the input method or is it Apple's admission that hybrid devices such as Microsoft's surface are better?
Apple presents this as a way to shift Apple from a content consumption to a content creation device, a trend already solid for visual content.