Agree, though everybody with an SE had better put a case on it as they become increasingly irreplacable :(

This is why my iPad Pro has a hard case instead of just a smart cover. The whole reason I got the damn thing is that you can write on it with a stylus, but somebody at Apple decided "Let's make this not lay flat on a table because people are buying a tablet to use it as a camera."

The only thing I've ever taken a picture of with it is probably a whiteboard.

With "Continuity Camera" or whatever it's called (1-click to take a photo with your camera and automatically import it into a program on your Mac), this becomes even stupider. Take the camera bump off and do that with phone to iPad. Everyone has a good camera on their phone already.

> why my iPad Pro has a hard case instead of just a smart cover. The whole reason I got the damn thing is that you can write on it with a stylus, but somebody at Apple decided "Let's make this not lay flat on a table because people are buying a tablet to use it as a camera."

A more likely reason is that it‘s easier to pick it up from a table if it isn‘t flat.

The sides of the iPad are tapered, you can grab under the edge even if it’s flat. If you needed it to not sit flat my case would have made it harder to pick up.