The case for the iPad Pro

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Today on the flagship podcast of tandem OLEDs: The Verge’s David Pierce and Chris Welch discuss the new iPad Pros with an OLED screen, Sonos’ controversial new app, and Sonos’ leaked headphones. Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best kind of overkill The new Apple iPad Air is great — but it's not the one to get The new Sonos app is missing a lot of features, and people aren’t happy Sonos Ace headphones will have magnetic ear cushions and 30-hour battery life The Verge’s Will Poor buys a bunch of broken iPhones on eBay, and pits the Apple Store against independent repair techs. Jet City Device Repair iFixit’s iPhone 8 charge port repair guide Hugh Jeffreys’ iPhone 12 investigation Apple’s plan to allow used parts in iPhone repairs David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about why some people think the iPad should be a Macbook replacement. Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgcast, the flagship podcast of Tandem Oled.
0:06.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am outdoors at a coffee shop testing iPads.
0:11.0	I try when I review devices to use them the way that people use them.
0:15.0	So that means like trying to do work, playing games, using the pencil even though I'm a terrible artist.
0:20.0	But I feel like for me when I think about the iPad the single most like charming romantic
0:25.5	iPad use case you hear for the iPad is the people who just bring their iPad to a coffee
0:31.1	shop get a cup of coffee sit and do the Sunday crossword.
0:34.6	I love it. That's what iPads are for. So I am here. I have coffee, I have the iPad pro, I have the
0:40.0	iPad air, and I have a ham and cheese croissantant and I'm going to do the crossword.
0:43.8	I have a Monday crossword on the iPad pro, I have a Sunday crossword on the iPad air.
0:47.5	I'm worried that I'm going to kill the battery in the air before I finish the crossword,
0:50.6	not because the air's battery life is bad but because I'm very bad at
0:53.6	Sunday crosswords it's gonna be something but anyway we have a lot coming up on the show
0:57.4	today we're gonna talk to Chris Welch about OLED screens on the iPads we're
1:01.3	gonna talk about sonos because there's a lot of stuff going on with Sonos.
1:04.1	We just have a lot to catch up on with Chris. So we're going to do that.
1:06.6	We're also going to talk about Right to Repair.
1:08.3	Will Pour, our producer, as you've heard a few times on this show, has been deep in the right to repair world over the last few months and
1:14.3	this time he has a really fun different kind of update on what it means for us the device
1:19.9	owners and users when we can actually have them repaired in new ways.
1:24.0	Super fun story.
1:25.0	Then we're going to get to the hotline.
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