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Another Report Says Second-Generation iPhone X and iPhone X Plus Will Support Apple Pencil
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I think they would want that super smooth 120hz input on their most important product. It's not necessary when it comes to pencil support, but it makes it much much better. Also, I'm not assuming, I am hoping.
I recently discovered a note taking app called NOTABILITY..... it records audio as you type notes....and each written note is time stamped to that part of the audio. It does this flawlessly. Also, it is NOT available for windows or android devices..and has no competition for notes+audio work.
This app is the only thing keeping me on the iOS bandwagon. If it worked on the Note 9, I'd jump ship.
I talk to people and take notes...often standing in a hallway. Quickly whipping out the iphone and stylus will be awesome. As it is, I have the cumbersome aspect of digging the iPad out of it's bag when I want to take the notes.
Hopefully, this is more than a rumor!!!! Stylus YES!
This app is the only thing keeping me on the iOS bandwagon. If it worked on the Note 9, I'd jump ship.
I talk to people and take notes...often standing in a hallway. Quickly whipping out the iphone and stylus will be awesome. As it is, I have the cumbersome aspect of digging the iPad out of it's bag when I want to take the notes.
Hopefully, this is more than a rumor!!!! Stylus YES!
Nope. Nobody wants to use a stylus with a phone. If Apple does go that way it would tell us a lot about how they really don’t understand things anymore.
I agree. Besides, the best spreadsheet jockeys that I used to work with would never use a laptop. They always had at least two big monitors and and a powerful desktop computer. They need lots of screen real estate for huge worksheets with multiple tabs and downloaded data from corporate data bases. Using a laptop to work on these giant templates was a nightmare.
If you're using a stylus on your phone, might as well go all in with that look and grab a pocket protector. I agree.
This is missing the point completely. The position was never "iPhones will never be usable with a stylus", but rather "our fingers will be the primary input device for iPhones". At the time, a lot of devices required a stylus for all input, and Steve was right, that kinda sucked. iPhones will always be a 'finger-first' device, but adding support for something like the Apple Pencil can add some functionality in certain areas without changing the way we primarily interact with the phone and without contradicting Apple's initial message.
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Your post is a bit presumptuous. Why would *nobody* want a stylus with a phone if it’s ‘optional’?
The fact that this Rumor may be true, at least shows they’re opening up to a wider demographic for those who may appreciate something like this, even though you may not. Your statement doesn’t apply to everybody.
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Yeah Apple have really lost it now. They can talk Jobs up all they want but what with this stylus, renting apps (programmed robbery), glue, so many -gates, innovating my dustbin or innovating my ass, I think the truth is option 'B'.
Good thing we have you around to let us know that nobody would want this, even though many in this same thread have said they would welcome it.
Sometimes it's not about being first but offering the best experience. Newton was a POS that failed. Galaxy Note has been thriving with professionals and creators since 2011.
I like my MBA and plan on keeping at least one Mac in the house because I really like MacOS it’s a pleasure to use.
However I could easily just use my iPad Pro for all my computing needs.
It all depends on what you need a computer to do. For millions of people an iPad can easily replace their computer.
It isn’t that people think they know Jobs better, it’s simply the notion that the Apple Pencil somehow contradicts what Jobs said in 2007 which is complete nonsense.
When Jobs said who needs a stylus, he was emphasizing the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone, which was new the at the time, and unlike other devices that utilized a screen with icons you didn’t need to poke a stick at it in order to use it. It’s still true today but it seems some people still don’t get it.
Apple always marketed the Pencil as a drawing, sketching, painting, scribble tool. They never marketed it as a replacement for navigating the phone or as a better way to navigate the phone. Those who persist in taking a position otherwise apparently never bothered to see the context of what Jobs was saying in the 2007 keynote.
I just look at the Pencil support for the iPad and assume it will be similar? If they could make a feature specifically for the new iPhones with similar functionality to the Notes though then that would be cool. Otherwise it’s just “there you go there’s your Pencil support, happy?”. They should offer some unique feature for it imo.
It depends on what you need the computer to do. I’d never need to do a ‘100 cell excel’ sheet so I wouldn’t run into that problem.
For me a sub £300 laptop running windows would be my idea of nightmare. Poor hardware, an under powered processor and loads of bloatware. That would be my idea of hell.
However as I said it depends on what you want to do and for some a £300 laptop would be far more useful than an iPad.
I’d like the pencil for taking quick notes, marking up screen shots, colouring on the go and light photo editing.
All of these things the current pencil can do.
I don’t think Apple would be willing to implement all of the features of the S pen.
Never thought I'd hear a Samsung advocate say those words...