The iPad Hate Continues

Despite new iPads being announced, old misconceptions and poor comparisons persist.

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Look, I know I continue to defend the iPad and many of my defenses in this post may be repeats of things I have said in the past, but because the same misconceptions and bad takes on the iPad are repeated and my points aren’t taken to account I think it is important to be consistent.

Apple announced new iPads this week, including a new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Air’s that have many excited but also causing many to regurgitate the same old bullshit. This all started with me listening to the most recent episode of Connected, but some of the same bullshit takes have also been said elsewhere that I plan to reference and go over.

I am biased in this but I have also been on the otherside repeating some of the same crap that is being spewed today. I currently am iPad-Only when it comes to my main computer, but this hasn’t always been the case when I have defended the iPad in the past. I think a lot of this rhetoric started with the “What’s a computer?” ad that Apple released in 2017 but really ramped up during the iOS 16 debacle (specifically Stage Manager) and the resurgence of the Macs — this hate on the iPad is what really got me to see things differently for the iPad.