Well, hello, hello and welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. This is Stephen Robles and it's an honor to be back here on the show.

You might have heard me in the very beginning of the Apple

insider podcast and this week I have Apple insider editor Mike Wirthly how's it going

Mike? Yeah that's going great how is everybody today I hope everyone's doing fine

it's great to be back I look forward to discussing all the

Apple news and we'll talk about later in the show how you can tweet at me and all that

kind of stuff if you have some feedback. We love to hear what our listeners would like

to hear on the show, maybe some segments, app suggestions or how-tos,

things like that. We'd love to hear from you guys and so we'll get to that later and again we just would love

for that to be a part of the show going forward. So anyway, there was some iPad news this week and we're going

through a lot of news today. I want to talk about kind of the iPad and broad strokes as we

mentioned a few of these things and Mike I imagine you have an iPad that you use? I have several it's if you remember the old Star Trek generation

episodes were Captain Carded like 50 of them on his desk. It's not quite that bad, but it's close.

Yeah and so I'm I'm a big iPad

I've liked the iPad from the beginning and you know there's a lot of

discussions recently in different news sources and different Apple

pundits talking about you know is the iPad really a productivity machine?

Has it gone to the place where we can actually use it to do real work?

And so just a couple of the quick news bites from the week.

You know, Photoshop for iPad came out recently and Apple made a big deal about it in a recent

keynote saying this is going to be full Photoshop for the iPad and Photoshop

for the iPad was just updated this past week to add things like object selection

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