Adding the cable the way Apple did is actually the exact opposite of this. 🤦
You can now use the pencil and charge at the same time.
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Apple Pencil Adapter for New iPad Facing Up to One-Month Shipping Delay
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You can now use the pencil and charge at the same time.
It’s completely redundant, confusing, messy, greedy, and ugly. All this ridiculous bifurcation in 85 colors a piece and they tout the environment? They’re just totally phony at this point.
That cable adapter cord looks so much better than sticking it in the iPad.
I had no idea it existed, but it’s a good solution to the problem. (Obviously magnetic charging is better, but version one option is reasonable)
Plug your USB-C to Lighting cable in one side, your USB-C to USB C cable in the other and viola, now you have a double length USB-C to USB-C cable.
People will buy air if Apple decide to sell it one day.
Or they could have just added a magnet, made it compatible with the Pencil 2, and not done any of this? Oh wait… which reminds me… why did they even come out with this product in the first place. Just sell the iPad Air like before and discontinue the other one? So ridiculous.
For sure. The 2nd generation Air Air will sell like hotcakes.
I don’t think it’s intentional. Probably a low priority in manufacturing. Like the polishing cloth.
Agreed.
This is such an ugly and stupid design. It was already odd when the first generation pencil with the original (?) iPad Pro required the pencil to be sticking out from the iPad for charging. Now, add the adapter to the monstrosity.
Thinking back to the context then, no one had thought or imagined the possibility of induction charging for a pencil like that, right? So, back then it made sense to think that a better solution is to use a cable so that the pencil doesn’t stick out in a way that would make it prone to bending either itself or the socket in the iPad.
Move forward several years, with the 2nd generation pencil we realize a better solution. At this point then, using a cable etc. to charge the pencil is not a great idea any more and wreaks of poor design. It’s as if nothing were learnt from the past several years. THAT is a reason some people (myself included) are now complaining.
I always go for Pro versions! So definitely Air Pro would be my choice.
Wait... So does this delay mean the adapter is really popular and in high demand? I really doubt it. Just goes to show you that shipping delays does not necessarily mean something is popular.
This is the best air we've ever made. You're going to love it!
Exactly it just mean demand > supply. But demand could be ten with production of 1/day
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3Pack Lightning Female to USB-C Male Adapter, Type Charging for iPhone 11, iPad Pro, Samsung Galaxy S20, Note 10, LG V50, HTC U12, Nexus 5X, 6P, Pixel 4 - Universal Compatibility
【PLEASE NOTE THAT！！！】It can charge Android devices with USB-C ports. You can also connect your computer and phone to transfer data! But it cannot charge an Apple pen! And the USB-C male can only charge Android devices, and does not support charging iPhone15 or iPads with USB-C ports! Does not sup...
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I suspect that the (regular) iPad is aimed at education and other bulk buyers where the relatively small difference in price is rather significant. Also, I can't imagine anybody who has ever seen the inside of a classroom remotely considering using a class set of $100 pencils cunningly designed to roll off tables, wreck the lightning ports on iPads in "crowbar" charging mode and brick themselves when they don't get re-charged over the school holidays...
...but then the adapters have sold out...? I guess that it's hard to prime an international distribution network with stock of an item that's only going to sell in small numbers.
Still, it's nice to have another chance to laugh at the design shambles that was the Apple Pencil 1.
This is the modern equivalent of when banks used to chain pens to the desks.
You can always plug it into your iPhone. It will not connect, but it will charge normally as if it's plugged into an iPad with a lightling port. You also can see the charging status on the coresponding iPad.
It is really crazy to think about - you cannot pair your "old" pencil 1 to a new iPad 10 without the adapter - and you need a USB C cable, too. You could buy a "new" pencil 1, though, no delay over there.
They want to charge you anyways. Money talks and we hear Apple loud and clear now.
All those decisions regarding the design come from the top. No designer can do this on his or her own agenda wirhin the corporate structure of Apple, no way.
I am so glad I bought used iPads for the kids. We will sit this through until hopefully a change of leadership will bring back balance to the Apple force.
They want to charge you anyways. Money talks and we hear Apple loud and clear now.
All those decisions regarding the design come from the top. No designer can do this on his or her own agenda wirhin the corporate structure of Apple, no way.
I am so glad I bought used iPads for the kids. We will sit this through until hopefully a change of leadership will bring back balance to the Apple force.
Well thats simply not true. Your could also charge it with a cable, just like almost every other stylus.
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Your probably can with the simple USB-C to Lighting cable that your iPhone came with. The adapter exists because everyone was demanding USB-C for literally everything; so Apple is simply giving everyone what they asked for, a USB-C to USB-C cable so the cable can also be used to charge their iPad.