Stop gap due to different charging methods (that came about due to the landscape camera). Once the base iPad and iPad Mini are updated (later this year?) the 1st and 2nd gen Apple Pencils will be quietly discontinued...
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Apple Pencil Pro Unveiled With New Squeeze Gesture, Haptic Feedback, Find My, and More
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Does it have an "off" switch so that it doesn't drain the battery to zero and brick itself if you don't use it for a few months (which is what happened to my original Apple Pencil)?
Or, alternatively, "If we put the magnet for the Pencil right in the middle, that will interfere with the eventual moving of the camera/Face ID to landscape, but that's actually a good thing because then we can then have a plausible excuse to make everyone buy another Apple Pencil when we have to adjust the magnet position." – some Apple exec back when the Apple Pencil 2 and associated iPad Pro were being designed.
People on this site have been clamoring for a landscape camera for many years. Apple really can’t win.
Hover requires at least M2 (it can work on M1 but not well), so it now works on the M2 iPad Air. They didn’t mention any Pencil Pro features being exclusive to iPad Pro, nor does it say so in the Pencil feature list on the website, so it’s reasonable to assume all features are available on both the Pro and Air.
That’s when they split the product line again for the Pencil Pro Plus.
It will be £200 and the only difference is it will be black. Thats how ridiculous they are getting now.
Works for the new Air alsoThe new pencil is only going to work on the latest iPad Pro?That's too bad. I was hoping to get the upgraded pencil for a better writing experience....
Yep consume consume consume! But they ”love the environment” sooooo much. It’s all so laughable !
The Pencil Pro not being compatible with older iPads has nothing to do with the chip, nor is it a scam. The video clearly shows Apple had to redesign the charging mechanism around the new landscape camera (something many many people have been asking for for a long long time). Considering these changes, it’s a rather big and unreasonable assumption to say that Apple could have found some way to make the Pencil Pro compatible with older iPads.
And Apple continues to sell older Pencils for now because many people still have older iPads and some need to replace their Pencils. It would be a major disservice to those customers for Apple to stop selling the only accessories compatible with their devices so soon.
I'm thinking of just embracing it. Or also thinking of stop buying iPad Pro and just using a standard graphics tablet (without a screen) connected to Mac.
Still no eraser, very disappointing. Why even call it a pencil this is more like a pen.
Apple today introduced the Apple Pencil Pro with a new squeeze gesture, gyroscope, haptic feedback, Find My support, and more.
A new sensor in the Apple Pencil Pro allows users to squeeze the accessory to bring up a tool palette to quickly switch tools, line weights, and colors. In addition, a new gyroscope allows users to rotate the Apple Pencil Pro for precise control of shaped pen and brush tools.
Equipped with a new haptic engine, the Apple Pencil Pro provides a light tap when users squeeze, use double-tap, or snap to a Smart Shape.
Apple Pencil Pro is the first Apple Pencil with support for the Find My app, which helps users find the accessory if it is misplaced.
Apple Pencil Pro pairs, charges, and is stored on the side of the newly-announced iPad Pro and iPad Air models, which feature a new magnetic interface. It is not compatible with any other iPad models.
In the U.S., the Apple Pencil Pro is priced at $129. It is available to order starting today, and launches Wednesday, May 15.
Article Link: Apple Pencil Pro Unveiled With New Squeeze Gesture, Haptic Feedback, Find My, and More
I mean, I can't argue that all of these changes are improvements. But it all feels so incremental and pre-planned.
For example, how many of us already had the thought LONG ago that "Hey, this Apple pencil really should have been designed to magnetically stick to the back or side of my iPad somehow!" ?? To me, it's common sense from the very first days of using PDAs like the PalmPilot or a stylus on any older smartphone that the device includes some kind of storage slot or other means of keeping the two items together. Microsoft's Surface Pro stylus magnetically attaches to the side of it.
Bragging that Apple Pencil Pro now features this just feels almost ridiculous.
I sold off my iPad Pro and associated keyboard cover and pencil long ago (I owned Apple's very first version of it), and never bought an iPad again. I owned a few iPads before that too. But with the combo of my needs changing a bit and Apple raising prices on all things iPad, it stopped making any sense for me.
I'm starting to get into doing a little bit of work designing things for 3D printing and hear good things about Shapr3D on the iPad. So that rekindles my interest in getting one to some extent. But I look at all this "innovation" and kind of shake my head... Seriously, Apple? You think the pencil accessory needs to be locked down only to "Pro" vs standard iPads?
And it's not like Apple couldn't do what everyone in the consumer electronics industry already does with things like my $30 electric shaver and put a set of 4 or so battery status LEDs on the Pencil, so if you hold something down on it, it displays the level of battery charge. Maybe we'll get that in Apple Pencil Pro Plus 5 for $200? Geez....
Not a big fan of locking customers out of the new item unless they purchase it with the new iPad. Great job, Tim Cook! Keep up that great work! Apple can't get rid of Tim soon enough.