People seem to like Apple’s new iPad Pro, with its better screen and impressive design. People also seem to really hate Apple’s new ad in which the company crushes centuries of creative tools because, in the future, there is only iPad. And after all the iPad stuff this week, people are still asking the same question: what is the point of the iPad?

On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk about the week in Apple news: the iPad Pro, the iPad Air, the Pencil Pro, the Magic Keyboard, the new apps, and much more. We also wonder if any of this changes anything about what the iPad is, how it works, and where it’s headed — or if the answers will only come at WWDC next month. Then we talk about that ad everyone’s mad about and why it seems like Apple has lost the benefit of the doubt with customers. (Apple issued an apology right after we finished recording — but that doesn’t change much.)

After that, we talk streaming. Because it’s earnings season, and we’re learning a lot about how things are going at Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and the rest of the services. Turns out, streaming is expensive? We talk about why the services are bundling, why it seems nobody can keep up with Netflix, and more.

Finally, we do a lightning round, which mostly turns into the Nilay Patel Victory Tour. We talk about the turmoil at Microsoft, the arguments about buttons and links that are taking over in Epic v. Apple, and the latest on what’s happening with that Foxconn site in Wisconsin.

If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, beginning with Apple:

• Apple iPad event: all the news from Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ reveal 
• The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
• Here’s how the latest iPad Pro compares to the new iPad Air (and prior models)  
• Apple adds a 13-inch iPad Air to the mix
• The iPad Air is now heavier than the iPad Pro
• Apple announces new iPad Pros with OLED displays and thinnest design ever
• Apple announces its M4 chip
• Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro M4: bigger trackpad and a function row
• Hands-on with the new iPad Pro: yeah, it’s really thin 
• You can upgrade the iPad Pro’s processor now, too
• The new Apple Pencil Pro is harder to lose and better to draw with
• Apple puts more ‘Pro’ in Final Cut and Logic Pro for the iPad
• People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial

On the state of the streaming wars:

• A Disney, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle is on the way
• The streaming business will look ‘very different’ in the next couple of years
• Max nears 100 million subscribers globally
• Max price hike incoming
• Disney’s streaming business gets closer to becoming profitable
• ESPN is coming to the Disney Plus app
• Sony is now in play to buy Paramount
• The Office is getting a Peacock spinoff about local newspapers

And in the lightning round:

• Alex Cranz’s pick: Inside Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil
• Nilay Patel’s pick: Epic v. Apple judge seems displeased over style restrictions on iOS buttons
• Nilay’s other pick: President Joe Biden to announce AI data center at failed Foxconn site in Wisconsin
• Josh Dzieza’s Foxconn story from 2020: The 8th wonder of the world