"Pencil Executive" sounds like an insult you'd call someone who had very weak authority.
"What are you.. some sort of Pencil Executive?!"
"What are you.. some sort of Pencil Executive?!"
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Apple Pencil Executives Discuss New Hover Features in iPadOS 16.4
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This is what I ask for every time I answer the question, what do you want the most on the next iPhone!
I heard a rumour that the Apple Pencil Executives beat the Apple Lightning Cable executives in building a taller paper tower in team building
Hot take: If you’re on the Apple Pencil team, you should have pretty good artistic ability.
I did a little digging on LinkedIn.
Here's The Senior Vice President of Apple's Pencil Division:
And the Vice President:
Head of R&D:
Impressive group.
Here's The Senior Vice President of Apple's Pencil Division:
And the Vice President:
Head of R&D:
Impressive group.
Agree!
The screens on these handhelds are now large enough to support Pencil 2 note taking/sketching/doodling/etc. Would make a nice differentiator for the Pro line.
Kind of surprised they haven’t enabled this yet. They’d surely see a surge in Pencil 2 purchases. Easy money.
While I could see this being reserved for Ultra, I hope it’s a Pro line feature. 😉
Ever used a note pad like Field Notes?
It would be a lot like that.
Looking forward to seeing a new Apple Pencil with the OLED iPad Pros.
it is the only thing that would make me buy a Samsung fold. I had a play with one and the ability to sketch is great.
I think Apple will hold out on the pencil and iPhone until they make a fold phone also, which will probably be in 2030......
Apple has too much free time
With iPadOS 16.4, Apple added new functionality to the Apple Pencil hover function, introducing tilt and azimuth support. The updated hover feature is designed to allow artists to view a mark at any angle before it's actually made, making the iPad more useful than ever for drawing.
Apple Director of Input Experience Leslie Ikemoto and Apple Director of Platform Product Marketing Stephen Tonna spoke with TechCrunch about the hover update. Using Procreate as an example, Ikemoto said that users can now see exactly where a mark will appear when the Apple Pencil is set on the display.Tonna said that Apple is "always listening to customer feedback" and also "building things our customers didn't even think of." The Apple Pencil team also uses what it builds, participating in "Inktober" every October. All of the team will draw and paint during the month, even those without notable artistic skill.
The new hover functionality works in native Apple features like Markup, as well as in third-party apps like Procreate. "We wanted hover to be as easy to adapt as possible," said Ikemoto, which is why hover was designed to use APIs that had already been used for the Magic Keyboard Trackpad. This allows hover to work automatically for any app that already supported UI pointer interaction, with further refinement possible through the UI hover gesture recognizer.
For those unfamiliar with hover, it is an M2 iPad Pro exclusive feature. It allows an Apple Pencil 2 to be held up to 12 millimeters above the M2 iPad Pro for a more seamless transition when stopping and starting on a digital canvas.
More information about Apple's perspective on hover can be found in TechCrunch's full interview.
Article Link: Apple Pencil Executives Discuss New Hover Features in iPadOS 16.4
Isn’t that already possible with devices like the Jot?
I doubt that, for a few reasons:
1. Most people, from what I’ve noticed, only occasionally take notes, etc. On a phone and it’s pretty easy to do already, whether by keyboard or voice
2. You’d have to carry a large pencil, which isn’t pocketable, around and pull it out every time you want to take a note
3. Cost of the pencil. Even for the iPad the pencil isn’t a must have item; and the iPad is designed for it.
Of course, YMMV
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That must be a very elaborate joke.Me, too, but I think this guy has the inside track on that job.
edit: I went down a whole rabbit hole of insanity. I'm not even sure what's real anymore.. It started as a joke but people took it seriously and sent him actual pencils to sharpen for real money? WHAT
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Forget that! Apple Polishing Cloth Executive is where the real money is at!
It makes some sense to have some senior leader in charge of a product or group of products. Without that, the become the bastard step children and languish as a convenient place to grab budget from since no one champions them and they aren’t considered cool or mission critical products.
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I have a wacom cintiq from 2008 that does exactly this. I'm not sure why it takes a M2 ipad to do the same.