Despite the growing influence of E-Ink, there is one comment some folks insisting of leaving, that appears again and again on these kind of reviews, usually from someone who’s stumbled onto one of my E-Ink videos, probably while trying to find a review of an iPad, and that comment is this: “Just use a tablet.”

Another June, another WWDC—and this time, Apple had something reasonably substantial to say about the iPad. They didn’t try to big up incremental upgrades that didn’t go far enough and simply frustrated iPad-first users. You see, it’s not the first time we’ve heard them promise a “truly desktop-class experience,” but with iPadOS 26, it feels like they mean it.