667: Wisdom and Treachery

So I bought an iPad, of course. Of course you did. What'd you buy? Take a guess. The big expensive one with the nano texture on it with, too much SSD space that you're never gonna use? That's right. And I already returned it. Oh, no. Seriously? Why? So I when I had said in the last couple episodes, I had said that I'd try one in the store, which is true. And I like, I because I was wondering, like, does the pencil texture feel better on it? And the answer is yes. But it does not feel $700 better on it. Basically, the, the app that I was discussing in the member special, one of the feasibility tests I wanted to do required the OLED screen. So I was like, alright. Let me let me, you know, do some kind of Black Friday deal this year and get myself one of the new iPads, except there was no deal on that version, of course. I was gonna say, there's not a lot of Black Friday deals on the one that nobody should buy. No. There are there are not. But, anyway, I realized that, like, you know, once I had it, like, in my office for testing against my, you know, old iPad that has the, the rock paper pencil screen protector on it, I realized that even though the nanotexture is better for the pen input, it is not better than the rock paper pencil. It's a continuum that you're optimizing for with that. Like, the Nanotexture, the screen looked better for images on the screen, for video, for content. Like, the screen looked better, less fuzzy, less distorted than any of the screen protectors. It also reflected even less light than anything. Like, you would think that those would go hand in hand, but they don't necessarily. So nanotexture was significantly better, in my opinion, for everything except pencil use. Maybe you should wait until you record the next episode of ATP before you return products because here we have a just in time toot from Brian who suggests that you check out pen tips at pen.tips for different tips for the Apple Pencil, I think. I actually had the Nanotexture iPad for about ten days, I think. And, I did try both pen tips and the paper like Apple Pencil tips, because I thought maybe that combination would be better. So, basically, there's this whole industry out there of third party Apple Pencil tips. And they have various goals in mind. The one that comes with the rock paper pencil is a metal little ball, like a ballpoint pen. That one, I don't really like that much, to be honest. When I'm using the rock paper pencil screen printer, I just use a regular Apple Pencil tip. Or, I I tried the the pen dot tips ones. Now, they have a bunch of different versions. I only tried one one variant of it. So, maybe …