Michael Tsai, echoing Steve Jobs’ infamous jab, “If you see a stylus, they blew it”:
To me, if you’re trying to use a keyboard with an iPad, you’ve failed. It’s better to lean into what it’s good at. For years, Apple tried to resist the idea of an iPad as an iPhone with a larger screen. But the apps have trended in that direction, and I think that’s actually not a bad way to think of it. It’s actually what a lot of people want.
For all the handwringing about the underpowered os running state-of-the-art Apple kit, it’s refreshing to consider using the device for what it is rather than wishing it would be something else. For all my own handwringing, I do delight from tapping a post into Ulysses on the naked glass from the sofa, as I am now, or completing my weekly review and populating my Unschedule for the week. I type with a weird mix of touch typing with my left hand, and hunt and peck using my right index finger. It’s slow and inaccurate but it feels different. I don’t want to use a keyboard all the time with an iPad.
But sometimes I do. I’m still excited about iPadOS 19.