Most USB-C hubs are dongles you forget about. This Anker is a stand first — a chunk of weighted plastic angled for a 13” iPad Pro that happens to expose eight ports along its base. Plug the iPad in once and you have HDMI, Ethernet, SD/microSD, three USB-A, and pass-through power without the hub flopping around behind the screen. The trick is the form factor: it stops the iPad from being a tablet pretending to be a laptop and gives it a permanent dock-like home on the desk.