Secret iPad
Even now, hearing about this app I think &quot;Wow! That&#x27;s so novel and cool! (<i>magical</i>, even)&quot;. I&#x27;ve said it before, but I dearly miss the creativity people had in the first few years of iOS. We have much better devices now; we should have <i>better</i> apps! I should be so desensitized by how <i>interesting</i> the new apps are that a skeuomorphic guitar tuner sounds banal and obvious! Instead today&#x27;s apps are boring. They&#x27;ve been reduced to nothing but feeds to scroll through, clients for online services, and crappy games.<p>What in the world happened?<p>Edit: Some people are mentioning the quality productivity apps available, particularly on the iPad Pro. I didn&#x27;t mean to suggest there aren&#x27;t quality apps, I meant to suggest there aren&#x27;t <i>interesting</i> apps that turn these devices into wondrous multi-tools. Apps that use the sensors in novel ways to interface with the real world; that make your phone or tablet more of a <i>device</i> and less of a <i>screen</i>.<p>I also want to say I didn&#x27;t mean to imply that there are no quality games on mobile; it&#x27;s just hard for them to survive (Apple Arcade is an interesting workaround for this), and also games in general just usually don&#x27;t have the kind of novelty I&#x27;m talking about here.