The Relief of Dropping An iPad

Cracked screens and scuffed edges. The mental toll of using devices not designed for the real world

Simon Pitt
Debugger
Published in
5 min readMay 25, 2021

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Photo Credit: AndreyPopov via Getty Images

A few weeks ago, I dropped my iPad. There was a moment, a gut-wrenching moment, seemingly in slow motion, as I watched my iPad Pro, 12.9", with its Apple A12X chip, Bionic 64-bit architecture, and Apple M12 motion coprocessor fall. Millions of…

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Simon Pitt
Debugger

Media techie, software person, and web-stuff doer. Head of Corporate Digital at BBC, but views my own. More at pittster.co.uk