136: ‘Fully Charged Pencil’ With Jason Snell

Hosted byJohn Gruber

Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to talk about iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, how iOS still feels like *iPhone OS* at a fundamental level, and Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini’s overwrought “How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name” article for Fast Company. Also: the new membership program at Six Colors.

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Links:

• Jason, writing at Macworld, on the iPad Pro’s keyboard shortcomings.
• Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini, writing at Fast Company: “How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name”.
• Ferrite Recording Studio: a full-fledged iOS audio editing app.