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Apple Ditched Plan for $50 Apple Pencil With iPhone Support at the Last Minute, Claims Sketchy Rumor

KSB said:
Maybe not scrapped, but postponed to be an option with iPhone 15 Pro Max (Ultra)
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Why suggest that only max-size iPhones would get pencil support? Folks now use their fingers for drawing apps and image editing on regular-sized iPhones. A pencil would be a huge benefit to those folks (me!).
 
enterthemerdaverse said:
Yeah this story is bogus. Jobs already explained stylus on a phone size device is pointless (Joke intended).

Tablet or iPad mini is another thing.

A larger trackpad on the MBP with Pencil support wouldn’t be a bad idea. Not perfect but not bad.
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SJ never used an iPhone Pro. What he referenced were the early iPhone and PDAs that were dominant when he made that comment. Today's iPhones support lots of different drawing, painting and image editing apps; some quite professional. Facilitating Apple Pencil2 usage on an iPhone Pro makes total sense.

Frankly, what amazes me is that it has not happened yet.

P.S. IMO your idea "A larger trackpad on the MBP with Pencil support wouldn’t be a bad idea" is excellent! And the trackpad is already large enough. Again I wonder why it did not happen long ago. Folks like me have been using Wacom tablets with Macs for 20+ years.
 
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I wouldn't be totally surprised to see this or something like it make it to the market someday in the far off future.
Could be very useful with the new FreeForm app on iPhone.
 
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vmac556 said:
This would of been very stupid. Imagine having 3 models of stylus separated by $50 in price lol
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What would be wrong with having three different stylus models each separated by $50 in price? If enough consumers want to buy each of the three different devices of course.

E.g. search Amazon for "mechanical pencil" and you will find hundreds of choices priced from a couple of dollars to $1k, some only separated by pennies in price.
 
EugW said:
I wonder why MacRumors posted this crap. There are plenty of sketchy rumours around but this is one of the worst I’m come across in the last few years.
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C'mon Eug you know it is called MacRumors for a reason. And obviously the MR post was great clickbait ;~)
 
jgbr said:
The threat to iPad sales is too great.
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Interesting point that I had not thought of. However smart marketers worry more about filling people's needs than about the consequences of cannibalizing one's other products. And Apple is a very smart marketer.

Plus my guess is that pencil sales plus iPhone Pro sales would make up for any loss of sales of iPads. Note that I see the Apple Pencil2 or better as the tool for iPhones, not some $50 POS like the rumor suggested.
 
Allen_Wentz said:
C'mon Eug you know it is called MacRumors for a reason. And obviously the MR post was great clickbait ;~)
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Yep, got me to click. :p However, I seem to remember in the past MacRumors had a page for sketchy rumours and usually didn't post über-sketch stuff like this on the front page.
 
"Sketchy rumor" is the perfect description. I do wonder why Macrumors decided to feed the trolls behind the rumor.

Slow day? Nothing to post on Thanksgiving besides black friday sales notifications?
 
I think of Apple design decisions on a 5-7 years time horizon, not year by year.

Imagine if this is paving the way for pen usage on a foldable iPhone that turns into an iPad Mini sized tablet.
 
May be an idea or proposal made by internal apple staff. It probably didn't go very far before it was dropped.
 
MacRumors said:
and instead utilized an onboard chip to power the stylus through the iPad or iPhone screen, similar to how Samsung's S-Pen stylus works.
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The rumour may be total crap, but this should honestly be a proper feature in every pen
 
Allen_Wentz said:
I concur that Apple should just add support for Apple Pencil 2 in the Pro Series. An imperfect pencil charging might be achievable by reverse MagSafe at the MagSafe charging location on the iPhone Pro: place the iPhone face down and the pencil on the back.

Or just specify out a pencil charger. The third-party-device folks would have a dozen different chargers available in a month. My guess is that there are lots of folks like me who have been craving an Apple Pencil2 for the iPhone. My XL hands and fat fingers are just too large for ideal iPhone operation, especially the photo editing that I do a lot of.
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Or pair iPhone and iPad Pro together so current Apple Pencil 2 can recognise iPhone through iPad Pro. Avoids charging problems either, instead of building a miniature version of it without proper ways to recharge it.
 
darngooddesign said:
There's a ton of 3rd party styli/pens, both with and without batteries, that you can use on the iPhone.
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Really? I will start the search process for one right now.

<Edit: ordered one, but it is just a dumb stylus, no AP2 equivalency.>
 
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