Keyboard attaches to the other long-side; turning the Pencil into a keyboard dongle is a boss-level Apple move. 🤣
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Apple Pencil Adapter for New iPad Facing Up to One-Month Shipping Delay
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I'm going to buy one of these even if I don't have an Apple Pencil.
Every time I do something dumb I'll look at it and feel smart again.
Every time I do something dumb I'll look at it and feel smart again.
I guess the magnets and wireless charging circuit were just too expensive for their desired price point and profit margin 😬
Article says adapter included in box with 1st gen pencil. But that’s not quite true. It only comes in the box with the “new 1st generation apple pencil.”
So anyone that goes and buys one off the shelf today for full price will also need to buy the adapter.
Why on earth they spent any effort updating that stupid dead end design is beyond me. One of many baffling decisions this year.
So anyone that goes and buys one off the shelf today for full price will also need to buy the adapter.
Why on earth they spent any effort updating that stupid dead end design is beyond me. One of many baffling decisions this year.
Couldn’t you just use the lightning adapter that came with the 1st Gen pencil and a USB-C to lightning cable to charge? Most people already have a USB-C to lightning from purchasing an iPhone. Then no need to wait for a back ordered cable or spend any additional money.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Remove pencil to use keyboard? Remove keyboard to attach pencil?
Pencil Jr. to work with any iPad but nicely fit the shorter end of this new iPad?
Not really faulting this- I'm pretty accustomed to dongle fever these days- but it seems where there would be a will... there would be a way.
If you ask me this is a step in the right direction.
iPad finally has a tampon string. It was very much needed.
iPad finally has a tampon string. It was very much needed.
And this is where all the pearl-clutching about bezels comes home to roost.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Are you crazy? How does Apple make nine more dollars with that kind of logic? And blow out some inventory of Pencil 1 now that Pencil 2 is in play?
This exactly, they save money by not adding the hardware into the iPad. But it gets better, they get another $99 out of you for the pencil and if you already have a pencil from your previous iPad, you have to buy a $9.99 adapter to get it to work. It really is a smart move. The 11th generation iPad will have Pencil 2 support so you'll have to buy a new pencil again.
Hey, Apple, you’re producing it wrong.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
OMG. You win the internet today. Funnnnnnnnnnnnny!
This is how I charge my mouse.
This is the beginning of the end for Lightning. Notice the new Apple TV remote uses USB-C now.
Apple wants to scrub the existence of lightning from reality. I don't understand why they decided to go with this old pencil design on this product though.
There isn't enough space for the Pencil 2 charger above the bracket that holds the camera and sensors, and Apple isn't going to have the pencil off-center by placing the magnet next to the camera bracket.
Regardless of what happens with Pencils on the next iPads, I look forward to reading all the complaints.
Did Apple find out that they have excess inventory of the 1st G Apple Pencils and just have to clear them out?
Entice people to buy the old 1st G Apple Pencil and now pay more and wait for the adapter?
It's a joke!
Entice people to buy the old 1st G Apple Pencil and now pay more and wait for the adapter?
It's a joke!
And where iSheep comes from, and exactly why apple believe they can get away with whatever they do, lowering the bar by the day until reaching the turning point.
The fact that this even has to exist is an absolute joke. Why don't they just transition all iPads over the the Pencil 2? Or why not update the Apple Pencil 1 with a USB-C connector if the Pencil 2 is so damn much more expensive to make? Or just stick with Lightning for the iPads forced to use Apple Pencil 1? There would be so many not-idiotic solutions to this idiotic problem.
Sure, but there is no male-lightning to female-lighting cable so users would NEED to bring a cable and brick with them everywhere. The Pencil1 was designed long before compatibility with a USB-C iPad was a consideration. Their solution allowed people to just bring the iPad and Pencil.
Apple decided the convenience of charging without a cable and power-block was more important than not needing a free included adapter to charge with a cable. You could leave the adapter attached to your cable which in effect turned it into a male-lightning to female-lightnign cable.