How sweet would it be if Apple went back to it's roots and really started targeting their products to creatives again and made the iMac screen work with the Apple Pencil? They would need to redesign the hinge, but I think that would be freakin' awesome!
Go for it Apple!
What, exactly, is "targeting creatives?" It always seems to boil down to, "targeting my needs/desires."
What's more, I believe that Apple is very much sticking to its roots. WTF are GarageBand and iMovie, Photos, Pages, Keynote, the markup tools in Preview and Notes... why can MacBooks drive multiple displays, handle optical digital audio inputs, and communicate with PCIe peripherals via Thunderbolt? (And don't get me started on all the ways iPhone and iPad have stimulated creativity in the masses...)
My 12-year-old produces short animations and posts them to his own YouTube channel. Reminds me of the scene in 'Steve Jobs' when Lisa produced a drawing on the first Mac.
Apple didn't set out to make high end gear for pros. At the time, "pro" gear was produced by the likes of Silicon Graphics and DEC. Apple set out to make the power of computers accessible to everyone, and tear down the barriers to creativity.
And the platform they built
also made it possible for professionals to do work on personal computers that previously had required incredibly expensive, specialized equipment.
But let's pretend for a moment that only pros can be creative...
The thing is, "creativity" is a huge, catch-all phrase. It's not the kind of thing a mass-market manufacturer can target with pin-point precision. Would a visual artist care to pay for a Mac loaded for pro audio? Does a writer need a 12-core CPU and bleeding edge GPUs?
While there are plenty of good uses for pen input, the pen doesn't uniquely address my particular creative needs (writing and photography). I have plenty of use for a 27" display, but I don't know if I'd want to pay a premium to have a 27" touch screen.
If I were still doing pro audio, yeah, a 27" touch surface for manipulating faders would be very nice. Actually, two, three, or or more of them side by side could be awesome (I never had use for more than about 36 faders - imagine what the Hollywood crowd could use). But pen... not nearly as essential.
I can't speak for those who draw, my experience is pretty thin in that realm, but I do appreciate that the size of the canvas can affect expression. I certainly understand why a touchscreen-and-pen larger than a WACOM tablet or iPad Pro could be very attractive. I just don't think that it defines a computer that a wide range of creatives would need.
