It's time for episode 174 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM recorded Wednesday, February the 1st, 2017.

Clockwise, four people, four tech topics, 30 minutes.

Welcome back to Clockwise, the Tech Podcasts, where we make time for the important things.

Anyway, I'm your co-host, Dan Morin, and across the internet from me is my co-host, Mr. Jason

Snell. Hi, Jason.

Hi, Dan. I'm right over here.

Hi.

To my left, she's an attorney and a Mac consultant and the co-host of Mac power users right here in Relayfm.

Katie Floyd's back. Hi, Katie.

Hey, guys. Thanks for having me.

And to my left, it's amazing we haven't had him on before, given that his company is Steam Clock Software.

Good grief. It's Alan Pike. Hello. Welcome.

Hi, guys. Good to have you. I'm today's designated co-host for all lead things off. Yesterday, of course, was Apple's quarterly financial results. And we learned a lot of things about how great Apple was doing. But one area, it's not doing as great as it probably wishes it was, is iPads. We saw another quarter of sales unit declines year over year. And with all of this,

with the iPad seeming to be, you know, at least struggling to maintain upward growth, is it still

reasonable to say the iPad is the future of computing? I borrowed that question from Mr. Marco Aram,

a friend of most of ours.

And I think he's got a reasonable point there.

What do you guys think?

Well, I don't, I don't think for everybody it's going to be the future of computing.

I know a lot of friends and family members who all have iPads and they really don't use them as much as they used to.

They all have them, but they're old. And, you know, they just kind of sit on the shelf and maybe they pull them off when they want to go on vacation or, you know, do something special or, you know, have something to take on it as a travel device with them. But for the most part, they're not using their iPads day to day. And I know that they're those iPad aficionados like, you know, Federico and Mike and even Jason to some extent, I think, is using

his iPad quite a bit. But

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