For our 100th episode, Riley Hill of SlatePad, the biggest iPad person we know, joins us after two weeks with his iPhone Duo to compare notes with Tom. We get into the weight, the crease, cases, the right-side dock, cameras, and why some apps still look letterboxed, with a developer's explanation of what's holding them up. Stick around for Riley's verdict, because it isn't the "iPhone plus iPad" answer you might expect.
In this episode:
- A good fall for Apple: Ultra 4, Siri, a new iPad mini, and an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro
- First impressions: dense when closed, light when open, and a surprisingly charming outer screen
- Cases, or going caseless with AppleCare
- Duo vs. iPad mini, and why iPadOS still wins for work
- Apple Pencil on a folding phone
- Open or closed? StandBy in book mode
- The crease: you can see it, you can feel it, does it matter?
- The right-side dock, home screen layouts, and split view
- Cameras: what you give up without the Pro's telephoto, ProRAW, and Apple Log
- How app updates work, the apps we're waiting on, and the fun ones already here
- Riley's two-week verdict
Links from the show:
- Riley Hill (SlatePad): https://slatepad.org/
- SlatePad on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SlatePad
- SlatePad on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@slatepad
- iPhone Duo: https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
- iPad mini: https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/
- Toastie: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/toastie-grilled-cheese-game/id6813841355
- Tiny Computers: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tiny-computers/id6816896250
- Shareshot: https://shareshot.app/
- Craft: https://www.craft.do/
- Paste: https://pasteapp.io/
- Things: https://culturedcode.com/things/
- Snipd: https://www.snipd.com/
