iPhone With Apple Pencil Support Could Launch 'As Early As 2019'

[yaxomoxay]

View attachment 725185 Who wants a styl..

Oh. The Note is popular you say.

What a joke

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No, that’s not how to charge a Pencil. The correct method is to use the wire with the provided adapter.
The method depicted on the picture is for a quick charge in case you can’t plug to an outlet and you need the Pencil to be functional within 15-30 seconds.

 

[dominiongamma]

steve jobs would never have let this happen

He was wrong on this topic, with a pencil the iPhone can compete with the note phones for business people and improve productivity

 

[840quadra]

First off, it is more than a stylus.

I agree with what Jobs said in the past, and agree a stylus shouldn't be needed on these devices to function. That said, the pressure sensitivity, angle sensitivity and precise point is nice for writing and artistic input that a finger really can't reproduce as easily.

Having watched some people in assisted care using iOS devices with those typical rubber stylus devices, I realize how ignorant I was to the fact that a precise pencil style input could also be of great use to that community as well.

No, that’s not how to charge a Pencil. The correct method is to use the wire with the provided adapter.
The method depicted on the picture is for a quick charge in case you can’t plug to an outlet and you need the Pencil to be functional within 15-30 seconds.

Actually, that is how you pair the device too.

Honestly I never use the adapter, it charges so fast from either of my iPad Pro devices that I never need it.

 

[calzon65]

What ... "we launched a pencil not a stylus" ... that's a bunch of double talk.

 

[Hater]

Put a Cellular chip into an iPad Mini 4 and sell it to the "artistic" people.

Instant market - 5% actual artist arty people, 95% people who are "like, so arty" and buy it because "inspired unique snowflake"

 

[WannaGoMac]

Steve's really gone now.

 

[Porco]

There’s a big difference between needing a stylus to operate the device at all, and wanting a stylus because it’s useful in certain situations and for certain applications. I think it should always have been an option, just never a necessity.

 

[69Mustang]

Apple executives and current CEO Tim Cook have repeatedly avoided referring to Apple Pencil as a "stylus" over the years, with Cook commenting in an interview last year that "we launched a pencil not a stylus."

No Tim, you launched a stylus and you decided to call it Pencil. Just like Microsoft and Samsung decided to call their styluses Pens.

 

[KidAKidB]

It's hardly the most greaceful charging solution ever, but let's be honest, you have to be a fkng idiot to actually allow this to happen to something you spent $99 on.

Things happen, accidents happen.

 

[dominiongamma]

Steve's really gone now.

You still not over it ? The pencil would optional for people who would actually use their phones for productive purposes not sure why people are still against it when people buy note phones for the stylus.

 

[840quadra]

Works great on the note phones, once Apple does it, people will say it’s magical or Apple did it first

Actually they did, long before the Samsung Note even existed.

Addendum.
The thing with the iPhone (when it was introduced) was the fact that they were trying to sell the Multitouch UI as the primary input device. While touchscreen phones did exist by that point, they were not widely popular, and Apple was trying to sell their interpretation of a touch UI to the masses. I think a Stylus would have given mixed signals.

I think Samsung bringing it back to the masses was Brilliant, and has great benefits on a small / modern device.

 

[KidAKidB]

There’s a big difference between needing a stylus to operate the device at all, and wanting a stylus because it’s useful in certain situations and for certain applications. I think it should always have been an option, just never a necessity.

You don't need the stylus for the Note 8, it just adds functionality if you want it.

 

[indiekiduk]

this is def one of those fake rumors to test the market. Waste of time cause should never make a stylus iphone (unless they go out of their minds).

 

[swingerofbirch]

Newton lives.

 

[rizzo41999]

Steve would have hated the Pencil. It takes the "Human" out of technology.

 

[adamjackson]

As a person in the audience watching Steve introduce the iPhone in 2007 with a Blackberry on my hip and a Palm Treo 650 (which had a stylus), I was thinking "I don't even use the Stylus all of the time. the screen on the Treo detects my finger as well as the stylus. The menus are large enough to just use my fingers"

I also never lost a Stylus.

What I hated and still hate about the iPhone is the virtual keyboard. I miss having a hardware keyboard and one of the main reasons I've never fully embraced iOS as even 10% of my computing is because I type too damn slow on them. MacBooks are small enough now that I really don't like being held back by a lack of built in physical keyboard.

iOS was designed from the ground up to work well with our fingers. You don't need a stylus but maybe some doctors or lawyers want to write notes in a native style? IDK but why not support it for people who want it. I don't need one...what I want is a physical keyboard which I know will never happen.

 

[dominiongamma]

Actually they did, long before the Samsung Note even existed.

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I forgot about this but still neat. Anyways it’s still would be great with the iPhone

 

[69Mustang]

First off, it is more than a stylus.

No, it's a stylus. A precision stylus, but a stylus nonetheless. There are some that are more precise and some that are less precise. They're still all styluses. No matter what the marketing department says. Microsoft doesn't have a pen and Apple doesn't have a pencil. They both have styluses called Pen and Pencil respectively.

 

[Hater]

What I hated and still hate about the iPhone is the virtual keyboard. I miss having a hardware keyboard and one of the main reasons I've never fully embraced iOS as even 10% of my computing is because I type too damn slow on them.

I hear ya.

I put off replying to texts until I'm back in front of my laptop - Everyone knows that if they need me to reply urgently, call me.

 

[Delgibbons]

Right up there with eliminating magsafe

Or charging a mouse on the bottom so it's unusable on charge.

 

[deanthedev]

Nice to see so many people still taking Jobs stylus comments out of context.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Steve needs to come back from the grave to fix this company.

 

[robertcoogan]

Well, this is almost certainly proof that very little (if at all) of Steve Jobs' vision has survived.

R.I.P. Functionality.

 

[diegov12]

Remember when Apple was innovative and Apple fans gleefully accused Samsung of stealing all their ideas? Doesn't feel so good to be an Apple fan does it? Not only that Apple takes 2 or 3 yrs to use those "ideas..." and have the gall to still call them "innovative."

IDK about that, faceID is far and beyond what samsung has on their phones, even tho samsung had years to make it better.

 

[iPhysicist]

Steve would have hated the Pencil. It takes the "Human" out of technology.

It does not. Handwriting is human. Drawing ✍️ is human.