iPad Upgrade Now or only with Pencil and 3D Touch ?

[aces99]

So 2 years for iPhone and another-2 Years after that for the iPad. So in all 4 Years ! Phew ! Samsung has already making Home Button free TABS !
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But giving Apple Pencil to iPad Pro was a new technical invention that Apple for the first time brought on the iPad in this case where is the question of the iPhone having it ?

The pencil is mostly for drawing apps and the iPhone screen is to small to make it worthwhile at the moment.

 

[Ghost31]

Hard to say of the iPad will ever get 3D Touch. The regular 4.7" iPhone 6s I believe uses something like 96 sensors to detect the pressure (they measures the distance of the light coming from the backlight to the back of the display and detect the miniscule changes.)

A 9.7" or even the 12.9" would take a huge increase in the amount of sensors required.

Then there is the matter of the Taptic Engine that gives you haptic feedback when you Peek and Pop and do other 3D Touch functions. iPads have never had any kind of vibration motor for feedback (neither the old motor or the new Taptic Engine.) iPads are large enough that just using one probably wouldn't suffice (especially not in the 12.9") they would have to either make one large enough you would actually feel it, or add in 2-3. Both methods would require new space to be made to fit it/them.

All of that can be overcome with time and probably will be. But when is the big question. Currently, it's probably not cheap to implement it at such a large scale (9.7" and 12.9") right now.

It's comes down to of you want upgrade what they release later this month and enjoying the massive upgrade over the old iPad 3 and use the Pencil. Or wait another whole year for a very big "maybe" on 3D Touch in 2017.

This comment just convinced me there will be no 3D Touch for iPads ever. I'm gonna go cry in the corner

 

[lagwagon]

This comment just convinced me there will be no 3D Touch for iPads ever. I'm gonna go cry in the corner

They very well could add 3D Touch to iPads. But I kinda don't think they will (at least not this year and maybe not next year.) iPad screens are so much different than iPhone screens. Not just the size but the actual construction as well. Which is why I can't see it happening.

Which sucks, because I would love to have it. Now that they're adding Pencil to the 9.7" iPad (so the rumours say) they should just enable it via the use of the Pencil. Using its pressure sensors instead of adding a bunch more tech into the screen itself for it (eliminating the hurdle of incorporating the 3D Touch technology into the larger panel and the cost of new hardware. It would only need a software update to enable it.) Doesn't solve the haptic feedback issue. But it would at least be something. And sell more Pencils.

iOS 10 feature request IMO. (I've already sent feedback for it during 9.2)

 

[augustya]

So it is official, today Apple has announced the Apple Event happening on the 21st March. So it is official that there will an event and it will have an iPad announcement but it is not known if it will have a pencil support it all is a pointless rumour as of now.