It’s been over a decade since Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s tablet as a “third device” between Mac and iPhone. Mark, Adam, and Lennart discuss iPad’s potential as a creative platform; multitasking, filesystem, and scripting/extensions; multimodal inputs; and the background process problem. Plus: why Apple should build its own pro apps for iPad to demonstrate their vision for the platform.

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Show notes

iPadOS 15
The Tragic iPad
Procreate
iPad with cellular network connection
user confusion on minimizing vs closing an application
Steve Jobs on the third category of device
prosumer software
iOS fork / iPadOS rebrand in 2019
the Dock, drag and drop
iPad morphing cursor
the history of mouse cursors
keyboard shortcut quick reference by holding down ⌘
macOS Big Sur Control Center seems designed for touch
Apple says it has no plans to merge Mac and iPad
Surface Studio and Surface Hub
Tony Stark’s lab
Apple device wifi password sharing
Universal Control to share a pointing device between a Mac and an iPad
episode with Rasmus Andersson
Macbook Touch Bar
frustrating text selection on iPhone and iPad

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