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523: State of the iPad

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

In the last decade, the iPad has gone from a brand-new device into a wide-reaching line of products that meet the needs of a range of users. This week, Stephen and David talk about the current state of the platform, and how it fits in with the iPhone and Mac.

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0:00.0

MacPowers, episode 523, the state of the iPad.

0:05.0

Hello everyone, this is David Sparks joined by one of my very favorite nerds in the

0:16.8

whole world Stephen Hackett. Hey man how are you? Good good I'm looking

0:22.1

forward you know we started the beginning of the year we wanted to talk through the state of the various Apple platforms.

0:28.0

Here we are in February and we're going to be talking today about the iPad.

0:34.0

Someone emailed us, you know, wanting to know how far the state of the blank would go.

0:39.0

Like are you going to do state of the state of the Apple TV remote?

0:42.0

It's like, well, that one would be easy. Yeah. the state of the Apple TV remote.

0:42.6

I was like, well, that one would be easy.

0:44.4

Yeah.

0:44.8

It's not very good.

0:48.5

The end.

0:50.3

Yeah, it'd be hard to turn that into a show. Yeah, yeah, but we did the iPhone and here we are at the iPad. I think the Mac is going to be next, but I think it's really good timing because, you know, here in February, you know, in February you know there's rumors of an iPad event we kind of

1:06.2

want to get in before that but we're about halfway through the cycle for

1:11.0

iPad OS 13 so I think it's a good time to talk about where it is and

1:14.5

maybe where it could go in the beginning so I think this is well timed on our part.

1:18.8

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1:26.3

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1:29.9

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1:33.8

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1:39.3

So if you want to get it, just type in Hooray KM like Hooray keyboard maestro and you get $5 off and that's only going to be good for a week. So if you're listening to this you should and you want to get it

1:55.0

it off and that's only going to be good for a week so if you're listening to this you

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