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Another Report Says Second-Generation iPhone X and iPhone X Plus Will Support Apple Pencil

Anyone celebrating this should take back their dongle criticism. Carrying around a Type-A dongle is much less of a hassle than carrying a Pencil around. Unless you have some sort of backpack with you, where the heck are you going to put that pencil? Certainly not in any pocket!

Pencil is a fantastic product for the iPad but that’s it. It makes very little sense on an iPhone unless they came out with a much smaller version.
 
Oh, I hope this rumor turns out to be true!

I was at a conference yesterday and received one of those rubber-tipped pens as swag. This morning I found myself using it on my 8 Plus at my desk. Yes, my fingers work, but the option is cool to have. A Pencil would be much more precise and afford other uses. Let it be a shorter Pencil though.
 
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pl1984 said:
Believe it or not Apple isn't the only one who takes an idea and improves upon it.
[doublepost=1534442724][/doublepost]The key question is: How many built in emoji's will the pen have?
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I guess I'll believe it when I see it. Still surprising considering every Android manufacturer lives on being first to market with every no name feature they can come up with. Yet, it has never amounted in significant sales. To this day, no other phone can match the iPhone. Maybe one day they'll get there.
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mi7chy said:
Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
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Okay so no, not a stylus like the discussion is about. I am sure you can figure out the difference between the two.
 
DNichter said:
I guess I'll believe it when I see it. Still surprising considering every Android manufacturer lives on being first to market with every no name feature they can come up with. Yet, it has never amounted in significant sales. To this day, no other phone can match the iPhone. Maybe one day they'll get there.
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Only when Androids are first to do features do they matter, as proof by comments from fandroid @mi7chy who claimed that even though Newton was first it does not matter since Samsung did it 20 years later but somehow better. Keep in mind there is a bigger following for used Newton Messagepads than any pre-owned Samsung Notes, and the Newtons really hold their value in compairson.
 
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This is overdue IMHO and definitely not for everyone. It's annoying when you're already using the pencil with your iPad and then you pick up your phone and it doesn't work... ;)
 
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;)Samsung has made the API for the S-Pen functions open, so that app developers can integrate the functions of the S-Pen when they develop apps. How about Apple?:cool:
 
DNichter said:
Okay so no, not a stylus like the discussion is about. I am sure you can figure out the difference between the two.
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It's not difficult to comprehend. 1960 Etch a Sketch stylus was on the back side of the display then it evolved to the dumb stylus on front of display with Apple Newton in 1993 to the Galaxy Note precision Wacom pen in 2011.
 
mi7chy said:
It's not difficult to comprehend. 1960 Etch a Sketch stylus was on the back side of the display then it evolved to the dumb stylus on front of display with Apple Newton in 1993 to the Galaxy Note precision Wacom pen in 2011.
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Nope, not difficult at all. Also not what we are discussing. Samsung, copying Apple again, always late to the party.
 
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lec0rsaire said:
Anyone celebrating this should take back their dongle criticism. Carrying around a Type-A dongle is much less of a hassle than carrying a Pencil around. Unless you have some sort of backpack with you, where the heck are you going to put that pencil? Certainly not in any pocket!
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The criticism of having to carry around a type-A dongle is more about the fact that you wouldn't have to if Apple would just include a type-A USB port.
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DNichter said:
I guess I'll believe it when I see it. Still surprising considering every Android manufacturer lives on being first to market with every no name feature they can come up with. Yet, it has never amounted in significant sales. To this day, no other phone can match the iPhone. Maybe one day they'll get there.
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You mean no name features such as large screen phones? The kind which were derided by Apple fanboys until such time as Apple migrated their entire line up, save for the dated SE, to them?
 
MacsRuleOthersDrool said:
Maybe not; but they took Multi-Touch from a laboratory tech-demo into a mainstream product with over a BILLION units in the field.
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True. Our company had a meeting a while back, and apple came up. It was discussed how they don't typically "invent" anything. They just make it and market it better. I still remember when Apple added video ability to the iPod. Everyone seemed to think they created it, but I had an old low end MP3 player that was 3 years older that could play them...although that thing was a piece of junk, and the iPod wasn't :).
 
pl1984 said:
The criticism of having to carry around a type-A dongle is more about the fact that you wouldn't have to if Apple would just include a type-A USB port.
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You mean no name features such as large screen phones? The kind which were derided by Apple fanboys until such time as Apple migrated their entire line up, save for the dated SE, to them?
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Wow. It’s as if I never owned a electronic device with a 4-8 inch display before android and Samsung. smh
 
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Lol, can't wait to hear how this is groundbreaking and how they're NOT copying Samsung. This is more like Apple buying time to fully copy Samsung. I'll call it now, 2020 Apple will have a Galaxy Note copy, and they will site the popularity of their users using the pencil on their iPhones. It would be way too obvious if they straight brought out their Galaxy Note clone that they already have in the works. Pathetic.
Oh and the other pathetic thing will be, the Apple apologists that trashed the Note for its SPen. And now have all of a sudden, have a new found open mindedness about a stylus on a phone. But just like Apple, they can't just come out and admit to it. They can't just be like, "it's so awesome to have the option of a stylus on a phone." That would just expose them for being shameless hypocrites, so instead, they'll say something like," I guess it's good to have options, but I'll never use it." But we all know full well, they're just dying to have it built in the phone like the Note. Pathetic and shameless.
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Are you really reading/seeing these comments? Or are you just projecting them in your rage fueled hate of Apple?
 
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MacsRuleOthersDrool said:
Newton was NOT a POS. It was, like the original iPhone, a Genre-CREATOR. Not so easy to get everything right the first time. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. Plus, the Newton was trying to do stuff that was about a DECADE too-early for the hardware available at the time.
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Try Googling s-pen keeps falling out
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Curious if other companies (e.g. Google - google glass and Microsoft - hololens) that create DECADE too-early for the hardware ideas get the same benefit of doubt from you?
 
pl1984 said:
The criticism of having to carry around a type-A dongle is more about the fact that you wouldn't have to if Apple would just include a type-A USB port.
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You mean no name features such as large screen phones? The kind which were derided by Apple fanboys until such time as Apple migrated their entire line up, save for the dated SE, to them?
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Nope. I don’t consider slapping a large screen on a phone, innovation. Not with Apple or anyone.
 
DNichter said:
Nope. I don’t consider slapping a large screen on a phone, innovation. Not with Apple or anyone.
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That's exactly what the Apple fanboys were saying about large screen phones right up until the time Apple started to offer them. Then it was the best thing since sliced bread to them.
 
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Like a lot of people have already posted in this thread:

Using Apple pencil with iPhones will be an additional input mechanism, not the primary input mechanism. It'll be a win-win-situation for everyone!
 
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I was being sarcastic.
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Why? Doing so adds nothing to the discussion.
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borntrouble said:
Like a lot of people have already posted in this thread:

Using Apple pencil with iPhones will be an additional input mechanism, not the primary input mechanism. It'll be a win-win-situation for everyone!
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Was it the primary input mechanism for the Note?
 
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