When the Share icon appears, your shortcuts are near.

Developers have a lot of work to do to get apps ready for iPadOS 16.

Sometimes I truly have excellent timing with my stories. As you may recall, a couple of months ago in the lead-up to WWDC, I published an article on my experience with using the M1 Max MacBook Pro for six months. That story was born out of a desire to get to know macOS again after

When I’m researching, speed is essential. Whether I’m planning a family trip or preparing to write a story like this one, the first step is research, which starts with collecting information. This stage is almost always a speed run for me, no matter the context. That’s because the goal is collecting. Reading, thinking, organizing, and

SVP Craig Federighi on stretching Apple’s iPad to fit new ways of working

This year the Air is more Pro than ever

Anything beyond simple media consumption or limited writing (like a text or an MPU post) are just too tedious, with too many “pokes at the screen” (as Jobs would say). Text selection Getting the Select | Select all | … thing to pop up, or not to pop up. Saving files. Using Share to, then Print then pinch/spread to create a PDF. It’s just tedious. It’s better with a keyboard and mouse connected, but then it’s a laptop. I have a laptop for laptopping. Maybe it’s just me.

Swift Playgrounds is the best and easiest way to learn how to code. And with Swift Playgrounds 4, you have the tools to build iPhone and iPad apps right on iPad and submit them directly to App Store Connect, providing a new way for you to easily create apps and share them with the world. Code is immediately reflected in the live preview as you build apps, and you can run your apps full screen to test them out. A new open project format based on Swift packages can be opened and edited in Swift Playgrounds for iPad, as well as within Xcode on Mac, offering you even more versatility to develop apps across iPad and Mac. Learn more

Give it a whirl if you’ve got an iPad on hand.

How much do you care about having the best screen?

The Macbook Pro M1 is the software development laptop of choice yet I love my iPad considerably more. I'm all in with my thin client for hipsters. Here’s what I’ve learned over the months and how my baremetal homelab in the sky is setup.

When I started my iPad-only journey in 2012, I was stuck in a hospital bed and couldn’t use my Mac. It’s a story I’ve told many times before: I had to figure out a way to get work done without a Mac, and I realized the iPad – despite its limited ecosystem of apps and