PSA for folks looking to get the most out of a generous return period/policy:1
From Apple, you get two weeks before you need to initiate the return. And then, in my experience, another two weeks before it needs to be shipped with their free return label. I initiated a return on February 15 for something delivered on the 2nd, but it just needs to get to FedEx by the 29th. Nearly a full month for you to try it out. And plenty of time for me to see if this way cheaper Vision Pro case as recommended by MacStories can beat out the Apple one, which I don’t love only because it’s massive.
Which, by the way, I have no qualms with. If they didn’t want people to use it, or want to stand behind it, they wouldn’t offer it! Both Amazon’s and Apple’s winter holiday return policies get liberal use in this household.↩︎
It’s already been a pretty full day that started at 5AM this morning, but I have a bit of free time this afternoon before ice skating and dinner with friends. Lately, when these precious unscheduled hours present themselves, I face paralysis of choice in deciding how to fill them.
I could…
Read and nap. (Meaning I start reading with the intent of falling asleep, but will inevitably never put my iPad down).
Actually take a much-needed nap.
Write something for my blog.
Work on the design of my blog.
Research and book lodging for an upcoming trip.
Clear out a few low-energy tasks on my to-do list.
Watch an episode of TV or a movie that’s on my backlog.
Clean up the house.
Fix a bunch of HomeKit devices that stopped working a few weeks ago and that’s super annoying to deal with on a daily basis.
Research startup costs for a business I’d like to start.
Do some yoga/stretches that my body would desperately enjoy.
Catch up on my social media timeline.
Get lost in Instagram Reels. (NO!)
Catch up with friends or family.
Play with my Vision Pro.
Send some photos to shared albums that I usually do every month, but have fallen embarrassingly behind on.
Log my climbing days so they’re ready to submit for my guiding license.
Tinker with an RSS feed idea I just had in the shower.
Publish some shortcuts that I’ve been sitting on.
Answer emails and clear out that inbox.
…and you better believe that I could go on.
But which?
Sure, there are some things on this list that immediately get cast aside, but most of them feel equally important or appealing. All of them would bring me a sense of accomplishment, and I want to do them all. But time is limited.
I can’t say that I’m good at this, but one method I turn to in order to get something done is determine which task will bring the longest benefit with the least effort. You could imagine an X/Y-axis graph in which the horizontal X-axis is the task’s long-term benefit, and the vertical y-axis is time or effort it takes to do it. I gravitate toward the tasks that are pretty low vertically, but way off to the right horizontally.
I recognize that this is just basic prioritizing but, man, prioritizing can be difficult.
But really, which?
Obviously, I chose to write a blog post. And no, it doesn’t meet the criteria that I just explained above. I did tell you that I’m not very good at it. But it’s been a while since I’ve done a “regular” blog post, and I guess I felt that I was neglecting it — meaning that in a weird way I felt like I was neglecting that part of me.
But let’s prioritize a few tasks that I can do with the hour or some that I have left:
Write something for my blog.
Fix a bunch of HomeKit devices. (Will make my wife happy, which bumps it way up.)
Log my climbing days for my guiding license résumé. (I take an exam next week, and I want the paperwork to be ready to submit ASAP since it will unlock more guiding opportunities for the winter.)
Tinker with an RSS idea. (Will automate part of my posting process that will save me a few minutes with every new blog post., and I think it’ll be quick to do.1)
Research lodging for my trip. (It’s not urgent, per se, but it is on a countdown and needs to get done sooner rather than later.)
Mikah Sargent: Tell me about one or two of your favorite PC or Mac apps that you really enjoy.
Well, I always like giving shoutouts to my favorite apps, so I appreciate this question. Since I’m sure you already know about my mainstays like Things and Drafts, I’d like to pitch one of the menu bar apps that I really like. Dropzone 4 lives in the menu bar and expands out into a “drop zone” as you drag items near it. It’s part Yoink in that it gives you a place to temporarily drop stuff like photos and files while you figure out where they need to go next (without clogging up your desktop). But it’s also partly a triage mechanism because you drop items directly into folders or apps or shortcuts that you’ve pinned into the zone. And finally, it’s part Shortcuts because you can also pin actions in Dropzone. You can drop a file or link onto actions like “Install
Application”, “Shorten Link”, or “Zip Files” to have things just happen.
Aleen Simms: What are your favorite apps for taking, editing, and/or sharing photos on your mobile touch-based devices?
I wish I were a better photographer, but I’m not willing (yet) to put in the effort to become one. So for now, I basically just shoot with the stock camera app on my iPhone and I hardly ever edit my pics more than the occasional crop job.
I do have and pay for Halide, specifically so that I can use their Macro Photography mode with my iPhone 13 mini. But I use even that feature less than a handful of times each year.
As for sharing photos, that’s usually done through my microblog and Instagram — although these days those two destinations are closer than ever because I’ve set up a Make.com automation to crosspost anything I share to Instagram as a new microblog post. So everything I send to Instagram also ends up on my own website and is available to see via Mastodon.
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Dan Moren: Do you think Vision Pro Personas are acceptable or ever will be acceptable?
When it comes to Personas, I recognize that they’re not perfect but I’ll be damned if they’re not incredible. The fact that you can create an astonishingly accurate 3D version of your face and torso with barely two minutes of scanning and processing is frankly amazing. And I don’t think they look as weird as other people seem to. If you’re the only Persona in a big meeting room full of normal camera views, sure, you’re going to stand out. But for one-on-one video calls or especially Persona-to-Persona calls, I think they’re pretty great.
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Ant Pruitt: With Bluesky being open to anyone, do you even care with all the other social media platforms out there? Does Bluesky have a chance?
In two words, not really. I’ve had a Bluesky account for several months and do crosspost to it via my Micro.blog account. So you could say that I’m a fairly active poster on Bluesky. But I never browse my timeline there and only interact with the platform if I get a reply there.
Their AT protocol sounds interesting, and I’ve heard that it would be a technically better protocol than ActivityPub for many of the federated use cases out there, but I think they were too slow to catch the post-Twitter bandwagon — which is too bad because they were already in motion long before Elon Musk took over there.
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Bonus Topic: What is your favorite board game or card game?
If you asked me this growing up, it would undoubtedly have been Parcheesi — a game that taught me that grandmas can be ruthless, even to their grandchildren. Many laughs and frustrations were had around the dinner table due to that game.
But in recent years, my go-to board game has been Ticket to Ride. The objective is to build train routes that connect the cities you’re dealt. But there are limited resources and a certain amount of luck involved. I love that it can be slow-paced, allowing for conversation while you play. Also, you’re kind of doing your own thing, and only occasionally crossing paths with the other players — at least until the end of the game is sneaking up and available track options are limited. The tension builds throughout the game as you desperately hope no one will build their track in the critical spot you need.
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Overtime Topic: Is there a way in which you use technology to prevent yourself from messing something up?
Oh man, there are plenty! Between shortcuts and Drafts templates, I’ve got a lot of little tricks that help me format things just right. I’m also a big proponent of using the “Remind me to do this when I leave work” phrase with Siri to make sure timely or location-dependent tasks don’t get forgotten.
But perhaps my favorite automation in this regard is the one that controls all our smart home devices like lights, fans, and thermostat to go into their away-from-home or arriving-home states based on when the first person gets home or the last person leaves our house. It’s so handy to know that I can just walk out the door and we won’t waste electricity, heat, or money.
For me, I might have to go with the MagSafe Duo charging pad. I know it hasn’t received much love from the press and Apple has actually discontinued it, but I think it’s fantastic. It folds up smaller, flatter, and lighter than any other similar product out there, and needs just one lightning cable. Plus, it looks great! Mine lives on my bedside table but gets taken along for any trips too.
3️⃣ This site is a collection of poems written by AI based on The New York Times’ headlines of the day. [🔗 newspoetry.kaplich.me]
4️⃣ I really kind of dig tiny internet experiments like how Adam Newbold has hooked up his status site to convey all the information within each one’s URL. [🔗 notes.neatnik.net]
5️⃣ For the App Defaults trend, Jason made a playlist of the apps he uses, rather than the traditional blog post. Yes, you read that correctly. [🔗 music.apple.com]
6️⃣ The Deadpool movies are always a treat, and this new one looks to be no different. Except that it could change everything, again? [▶️ Ryan Reynolds // youtube.com]
7️⃣ I used to be pretty against tattoos in general, and never wanted one myself. Now I love seeing how people express themselves through the ink they put into their skin. Cory’s post about the meaning behind each of his body artworks made them even more appealing. [🔗 Cory Dransfeldt // coryd.dev]
In honor of the Taylor Bowl — er, I mean Super Bowl — today, I thought I’d highlight a Taylor Swift album. 1989 isn’t my favorite of her records, but I do come back to it often. “Blank Space” is the quintessential track, for sure, but the whole thing has a great vibe and it’s what I turned to this evening.
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.
Dan Moren: Do you feel that the changes that Apple laid out to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act are meaningful, or rather a “poison pill” to keep things as the status quo.
I think that Apple is doing the thing that we should have all expected them to do, which is to follow as closely to the letter of the law while still maintaining what they think is the best experience for their users and what makes them most profitable. Toeing that line while balancing those objectives is, I expect, quite tricky, but that’s why their lawyers and executives are paid handsomely.
I think that their proposed changes will are perhaps the warning tremors for bigger, more global changes in the years ahead, even if they’re not very palatable or accessible to most developers right now.
I also think that by sticking to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it, they are continuing to erode goodwill from their developer community, which I think is the worst part of this whole thing. Apple is gaining a reputation of being developer-hostile, and that will be very difficult to shed if and when they wake up to that reality — something that they seem unwilling or unable to do.
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Allison Sheridan: Have you gotten into the portable monitor craze?
This is an easy one: No, I haven’t! The idea of carrying around a laptop-sized screen to supplement a laptop doesn’t seem like a valuable use of space or weight. That said, when I had a MacBook I would sometimes use my iPad in Sidecar mode to be an external display, but at least the iPad was functional in other ways so it never felt like a waste.
Using my Vision Pro as a display for my Mac is definitely something I’m interested in doing, but since I only have a desktop Mac… the utility as a portable display will be limited. Plus, the peripherals need to be able to connect to the Mac, so my dream of “using” my upstairs Mac mini through the Vision Pro while seated on my downstairs couch is limited by the Bluetooth range of my keyboard and trackpad.
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Mikah Sargent: What browser or browsers are you using, and are they consistent between your desktop and mobile devices?
I’ve been a Safari-only guy for many, many years. I rarely feel any need to try other browsers when Safari works so well for me. But if I run into a situation where I need an Chromium-based1 alternative browser, I’ll fire up Firefox. That was the browser I used back in my Windows days, and it’s a worthy choice to this day. Their web inspector view is excellent, so I’ll sometimes use that when I’m troubleshooting my site or researching the blueprint of other people’s sites.
I have tried Arc a couple of times, but it’s never stuck for longer than an afternoon. The classic design and UX of browsers are so ingrained, that I feel really out of place using their sidebar-oriented design.
Oh, and I guess I technically use Chrome and Firefox regularly at work where I’m stuck on Windows desktops. But for my devices, whether I’m mobile or otherwise, it’s typically all Safari, all the time.
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John Voorhees: How are you managing links these days?
Oh boy, what a rabbit hole we could go down here. Right now, my read-later links go to Pocket. My watch-later links go to Play. My listen-later links go to MusicBox. My reference-later links go to Raindrop. My write-later links go to Drafts. And my ‘Take a Chance’ links go to GoodLinks.
How they are routed to their resting places is accomplished through a series of shortcuts or extensions.
It sounds like a lot of complexity, but it works for me.
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Bonus Topic: If you were stuck in a time loop, what is the first skill or task that you would devote yourself to learning?
My first instinct was to say learning American Sign Language, which is the language I would most like to know. But then Allison’s and Mikah’s answer of learning to code as a programmer also struck a chord. I might have to go with that as well because I have many app ideas, but not the skill to create them. Yet.
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Overtime Topic: Besides your computer, of course including external monitors attached to it, what piece of tech can you not live without that is on your desk at this very moment?
I think I’d have to go with my Magic Mouse. I’ve tried other mice and trackpads, but the Magic Mouse’s shape and unique touch gestures work so well for my hands on my Mac. I think everything else on the desk — monitor, lamp, keyboard, chargers — could be replaced without much consternation, but the Magic Mouse is the one true mouse for me.
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not.
1️⃣ Pika is another new blogging platform that looks really nice for anyone who just wants to get straight to writing. Not too fiddly, but beautiful out of the box. Like Scribbles, I think I’ll be recommending it a lot. [🔗 pika.page]
2️⃣ Manton Reece shared his measured view on the value that a failed Apple product could bring to the company. [🔗 manton.org]
3️⃣ I tossed more than a few minutes down the rabbit hole by reliving some fun internet memes and moments in this excellent Internet Artifacts site from Neal. [🔗 neal.fun]
4️⃣ You wanna learn a little about making music with beats and loops? This is a fun place to start. [🔗 learningmusic.ableton.com]
5️⃣ I’m a sucker for a good optical illusion, so this collection of ones made with a diffusion model so that they’re multiple illusions in one really piqued my interest. [🔗 dangeng.github.io]
6️⃣ I am absolutely no good at this game where you guess where a photo was taken in a hotter/colder fashion. [🔗 pudding.cool]
7️⃣ There are definitely some brands on this list of fictional ones from books and movies and such that I thought were real. [🔗 fictionalbrandsarchive.com]
Us The Duo is a special artist to me and my wife. I love their story (husband and wife performing team) and how they’ve captured it over the years. I think Public Record - EP is the album that I discovered them by, and even though it’s not my favorite or theirs (I’m sure that one will make an appearance later in this project), it’s a very good introduction to their style. Plus, how and why it was made is pretty cool. Each song was written to tell the story of one of their fans. The “I’m Me” track is hilarious, while “One Last Dance” is achingly beautiful.
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.
2️⃣ Speaking of Lynn Fisher, you really owe it to yourself to peruse through her site. It’s one of the most incredible works of art I’ve seen. She has an archive of all the old designs (she redoes it every year), and a plethora of super creative projects. I particularly like the ‘A Single Div’ project where she creates amazing art exclusively with CSS. [🔗 Lynn Fischer // lynnandtonic.com]
4️⃣ I think simple web tools are just the coolest. This one lets you clean up any recipe webpage into an ingredients list (with adjustable portioning), and easy-to-follow instructions that can be (optionally) be saved to an account — just by prepending cooked.wiki/ in front of the recipe’s URL. Here’s an example. [🔗 Cooked // cooked.wiki]
6️⃣ If you ever feel nostalgic for those old animated buttons that folks would add to their webpage, well, here’s a collection of over 4500 of them. [🔗 The 88x31 GIF Collection // cyber.dabamos.de]
7️⃣ I started learning a bit of Morse Code with this tool. Game? Either way, it’s pretty fun and effective hands-on education! [🔗 Learn Morse Code // perry.qa]
If you asked me about my favorite artist at any time in the past 10 years or so, I’d probably say The Avett Brothers. So it’s terribly difficult to pick the first album of theirs to share here. I ended up going with the one that I’ve loved/favorited the most songs in. While their style has changed over the years, I consider The Carpenter to be quintessential Avett Brothers: Twangy, bouncy music accompanying strong lyrical duets.
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.
What is dead may never die, so it’s so nice to see Christina and Simone together on a Relay podcast in this mini Rocket reunion episode. I can’t wait to dig in!
Mikah Sargent: Do you use widgets on your smartphone, and if you do, which ones?
You know, I didn’t think I was a heavy widgets user, but now that I study my phone, I think I might be! My home screens are generally set up around specific functions. I have my core Home Screen — the first one — with my core widgets. They’re the ones that I use every day to reference things and get things done. They include a medium-sized widget stack with Fantastical, CARROT Weather, and Things. I also have a small widget stack mostly for fuzzy feelings from photos. It has widgets for the Photos app, and for Locket — a delightful app that allows you to send a single photo at a time to your friend’s or loved one’s Home Screen. But that stack is also a Smart Stack, so it’ll occasionally surface a widget that it thinks is relevant for that moment. Right now, for instance,
I’ve got a Music widget in the stack. I’ve also parked the widget for a podcast app called Airshow that I’m testing.
On my second Home Screen, my “active” Home Screen, I have two stacks of medium-sized widgets. On top, I’ve got widgets to track my workout stats: Fitness, Tempo, and Strava. Below it, an audio stack: Longplay, and Overcast.
My third Home Screen is for social, writing, and entertainment. In the center of the screen, I use another medium-sized stack with two widgets for Shortcuts (with four shortcuts each related to Micro.blog and blogging), one for Drafts (my most recent notes in the ‘HeyDingus’ workspace, usually blog post ideas).
My final Home Screen is my ‘Marcos Tanaka’ tribute. It only includes widgets. One large one for Play, which shows my most recently saved YouTube videos. And the other is a medium-sized one for MusicBox, which shows my most recently saved albums to listen to.
If we’re getting technical, I also have several widgets on my Today view screen — or Home Screen -1. There I have a bunch of widgets for Shortcuts, one for the Home app, for Day One, for Tally, for Music, for Batteries, and even the OG interactive calculator widget for PCalc.
If we’re getting really technical, I also have Lock Screen widgets. My standard Lock Screen has a widget from LockFlow that acts as a quick launcher into Drafts, one for CARROT Weather because I love the snark, and one for Overcast, which starts playing a show from my go-to playlist.
Like I said, it turns out I use a lot of widgets.
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Simone De Rochefort: Have you been following the discussion around the so-called “ripoff” of Pokémon by Palworld, and what do you think about it?
Honestly, I had not even heard about this controversy until Simone brought it up here on the show. Since then, I’ve picked up a little more, but no, I haven’t been following the story.
With a cursory glance over their artwork and game mechanics, I’m inclined to agree that it seems like a rip-off, but that’s more for lawyers to decide. I’m sure if The Pokemon Company feels that their IP is getting infringed upon, and it sounds like they’re looking into it, they will get involved.
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Dan Moren: Apple released iOS 17.3 this week which adds the Stolen Device Protection feature. Have you enabled this, and do you take any other device security precautions?
Oh yeah, I enabled it as soon as I had the new OS version installed. It seems like there are very few downsides, and will largely negate any chance of the severe repercussions possible if someone gets ahold of your device and its passcode.
I’d encourage everyone to switch it on, and I hope that Apple guides users toward enabling it in future updates.
As for other security precautions, I’m fairly vanilla. I store passwords and passkeys in iCloud Passwords (with a fallback to my 1Password database every so often), and I’m contentious about putting my phone into “passcode-required” mode in situations where I don’t have direct possession of it (read: airport security or traffic stops).
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Christina Warren: Are you still willing to pay an increased amount of money to streaming services to not get ads, or will you pay for an ad-supported option?
You know the old saying, “Once you go no-ads, you can’t go back?” Okay, I might be mixing that up with another phrase, but the sentiment stands. I now look back at my time growing up with ad after ad after ad blasted into our living room for hours every day as madness. Those ads were manipulative media that I didn’t want or need that interrupted what I did want to watch, and that stole my attention and brain space. If I can, I will continue to choose ad-free options for any streaming services.
I’m not happy about fee increases coming to ad-free plans as these services realize that they can get money both ways from the same customer (access charge plus ad revenue), but I’m still willing to pay for it. However, it has made me more seriously consider designating certain months as our “Max month”, “Prime month”, or “Netflix month” and do more of a pay-as-you-go model with them rather than pay for all the services every month.
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Bonus Topic: What was your favorite cartoon as an elementary-aged child?
That’s a tough choice between Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh. Probably Pokémon has had the longest-lasting influence on me, but Yu-Gi-Oh still has a special place in my heart. That was certainly a creative series.
My dark horse show, though, was Static Shock. It was a really interesting superhero show that it seems like no one has heard of.
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Overtime Topic: What is the secret to the Mac’s longevity, and do you have any Mac memories to share?
It’s hard to think of another tech product that has been so firmly planted in people’s hearts and minds for over four decades. I think the secret to its longevity is that it has been at the center of the tech hub for most of its life. It’s the most capable platform that spans many form factors and enables the development of all other kinds of tech. But I also think something that has helped people’s adoration for the Mac is its nickname. It’s so much easier to love something called “Mac” than “a PC”.
And people do love their Mac.
My favorite Mac memory is of unwrapping my first one, a hand-me-down gift from my friend Robert. That sleek metal frame of the MacBook Pro, and booting it up to see my name on the login screen — oh, that’s hard to top.
This episode went places I certainly was not expecting! But it’s been a delight, as always. Until next week!
You’ve been around for a decade longer than I’ve been alive, and yet I feel a kinship in age. Maybe it’s that decade you lost, wandering the lands of Performa and Quadra. Like good wine, you’ve only gotten better with age. We once feared for your longevity and you’ve certainly had your rough patches, but now it seems you are again in it for the long haul with your best days ahead of you. Though there are more options than ever with phones, tablets, and voice and spatial computers surrounding me to express creativity and get shit done, it is to you that I most readily turn. You are the tool — dare I say friend? — that best helps me to make the dreams in my head into reality.
To you, and all the people who have made you what you are over the last 40 years, thank you.
Update: Oh, and since we’re all doing it, my first Mac was the first Intel MacBook Pro — perhaps the greatest gift I’ve ever received — as a hand-me-down from my best friend Robert. Before I got that laptop, which we fondly referred to as “Lappy”, I had been running Windows XP, which I fully customized to resemble Mac OS X’s Aqua interface. However, it couldn’t compare to the real deal, and I’ve never looked back.
Dan Moren: As part of the final Epic vs. Apple case decision, Apple is now allowing links to payments outside the App Store; I’m curious if you see this actively changing the state of how the App Store works, if it’ll stave off scrutiny from regulators, or do you think it’s just a sop?
I think Apple is asking too much of developers for any quantity of them to go through the hassle of getting the entitlement, tracking their users’ payments, paying the commission, and reporting back to Apple. I also don’t think that it’ll stave off any upcoming regulations. If anything, I think governments will loudly proclaim that Apple’s commission fee is too high, but then waffle about what they can do about it.
Apple is playing with fire here, and I can’t help but think they’re going to get burned.
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Jeff Carlson: Do you use, or have you ever used, the blood oxygen feature of the Apple Watch? Are there other health/wellness features that you do use?
Only in passing curiosity have I used the blood oxygen sensor of my Apple Watch. I think it’s a good feature to have available, and I’m frustrated that Apple has let the situation get so far that new watches are being sold without a major health/wellness-focused feature. But it’s also not a capability that I think about very often, and I don’t think its absence will have a notable impact on sales.
I would love for there to be a resolution though, so I could stop hearing about it.
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Jason Snell: Are you buying a Vision Pro; if so, why or why not? If not, what would make you consider one in the future?
I awoke early on Friday morning so that I could man the pre-order battle station that consisted of my Mac mini, iPad Pro, and iPhone all waiting patiently at store.apple.com. But I needn’t have worried about securing a unit on Day 1. Within five minutes of pre-orders going live at 8:00 am, I ordered a 512 GB Apple Vision Pro with the travel case and AppleCare.
The checkout process went quite smoothly for me, and I couldn’t be more excited about the prospect of spatial computing.
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Shelly Brisbin: When was the last time that you purchased a piece of physical media (like a TV show, movie, or music), and when that happened, did you do that because of some unavailability in the streaming world?
I make a concerted effort not to purchase stuff that will just sit on a shelf, so I really don’t remember the last time I intentionally bought a piece of physical media. I’ve been gifted a handful of paperback and hardcover books, but those weren’t my choice to receive.
Oh. Just kidding. I looked to my right and saw Michael Flarup’s The macOS App Icon Book copy that I had purchased on Kickstarter many, many months ago. I guess that and The iOS App Icon Book that came with it were certainly the most recent examples of my recent physical media pick-me-ups.
I’m looking forward to perusing them over time.
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Bonus Topic: Snow: Yay or Nay?
A hefty, heartfelt “Yay!” from us over at Scotts Cobble Nordic Center. I love watching the snow, playing in it, and more. If the winter is going to be cold — and it is — we might as well have the snow to make it more fun.
I split my time pretty regularly between a 2020 11-inch iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard and a 6th-gen iPad mini. The bigger iPad comes with me to work and is my go-to for watching videos and anything I need to type out so that I can use the Magic Keyboard.
The iPad mini is mostly a home tablet for me. It’s where I do a whole bunch of reading because the size is much more conducive to holding for any length of time. It’s also my cellular version, so it makes most trips with me.
There are certainly some notable times coming Apple’s way this year. I hope they’re ready for scrutiny from customers about the Vision Pro as a new product line and from regulators trying to even the competitive landscape.
