It’s hard to imagine that it’s been a decade since Steve Jobs introduced the iPad. It’s hard to conceive of its impact from my vantage point: my kids have them here at home, but not at school. I buy them, but work doesn’t provide them. We keep a stack at work, but they’re not terribly sought after outside of specialized applications, such as TouchChat.

I’ve bought an iPad from probably every other generation: the original, the first Retina iPad, the Air, the Air 2, and two Pros (a 10.5“ and then a 12.9” third generation). My attempts to make them work for work have been shoehorned efforts at best; they were never better than a Mac.

But with iPadOS, and in my current capacity?

We’re starting to get somewhere.