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Apple Pencil Pro Unveiled With New Squeeze Gesture, Haptic Feedback, Find My, and More
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Darth Tulhu
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I think it makes sense. I have a Pencil for my iPad strictly for when I want precision, and for taking notes and signing documents. I'm not an artist.
My daughter, on the other hand, is a graphic artist.
I appreciate Apple not making me pay for features I don't need, while offering more.
One ring need NOT rule them all.
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Darth Tulhu
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Another way of looking at it is that this illustrates how iPads are long-term AND standalone devices.
I like having support for the device I own, and having options is always good.
Apple has split the iPad into three tiers, while still keeping the legacy, entry-level iPad around.
Why leave money on the table for a device that is still useful and you already did the R&D for, to the point of manufacture and shipping?
As I mentioned in a different thread, Apple has set it up for some of the newer generations to not touch a Mac at all.
It's very well-priced considering all of the features it has.
Darth Tulhu
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We're talking HARDWARE changes here, and not minor ones. The new iPad hardware is VERY different from the previous.
From car parts to video game hardware, there is so much you can do regarding backwards compatibility.
Be reasonable folks.
If they only produced one Apple Pencil you would be getting the Pro Pencil and all its features at a cheaper price than £129.
The new iPad has an OLED display and a new CPU. Hardly groundbreaking features that would warrant its price jump.
Remember the rumours that it would let you scan colours from the real world?
Apple simply has no vision of any product now. After the Apple Watch, Tim and the executive seems to have run out of ideas. I’m the biggest Apple fan among my friends, and now I couldn’t care less about Apple products except occasional iPhone upgrades.
Theres a camera array that didnt used to be there
They forgot to mention the new iSqueeze feature in their presentation, where Apple magically squeezes your wallet by making sure that you also upgrade all your other devices if you want to use some of these new features.
It's a huge upgrade.
That alone is reason enough for me to upgrade from my 2nd gen 12.9.
It's not a rumour, it's a literal patent. Nobody expects Apple to commercialize every patent they obtain.
Apple Patents Apple Pencil That Can Sample Colors From Real-World Surfaces
What I have to do with my 2nd gen Pencil is take the pencil off the iPad, and then toggle the Bluetooth off, and then back on to force the pencil to disconnect from the iPad. It won’t reconnect until it’s reattached, and it will hold a full charge for… ages. Hooked up after a month and it was still almost 100% charged, but not doing that and it would be dead in a few days.
Annoying yes but it is a workaround if you need it in the future.
Because a tiny toggle switch on the pencil would utterly and completely destroy the aesthetic of the pencil…
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My wife (a graphic artist) is also considering the new Pencil and upgrading her 12.9 iPad Pro to go with it.
Yeah I tend to agree and was thinking that at the end of this event. Tim was a Compaq exec and made so much of Apple into what I hated about PC companies. I had the product line fragmentation it’s mostly just greedy and stupid not making the Pencils work across more devices. I would love to get the new Pencil but I’m not ready to part with my M1 iPad Pro yet.
On hearing the recent rumors about the Pencil Pro, many people were quick to comment that the Pro moniker will only serve to sell the Pencil for more money. But now that we know the Pro is going for the same price as the gen 2, there is no acknowledgement from them—except to condemn Apple for not reducing the price of the gen 2.
People never cease to amaze.
People never cease to amaze.
The thing that makes it really annoying — the pencil of the Pro looks like the Pencil2. When my current iPP pencil gets switched up with the pencil of my mini, I just connect it and they work seamlessly with the other iPad. Not anymore. This might get sucky fast.
Looking at what Apple has come out with in the last few years (Journal app, System Settings on macOS etc.) I'm not sure if they would still have the necessary software engineers to actually pull this off.
No excuse— they should still allow it to work even if you can’t attach it.
The camera module prevents this. It was quite obvious that they needed a new magnet configuration to get around this when placing the camera on the horizontal plane. There's no way around this if they wanted to retain the same charging position.