New Apple Pencil Announced With Hidden USB-C Port and More for $79

[Rafterman]

Well, that was disappointing.

There may still be a new Pencil replacement for 2 coming, with mag tips and all that. Just not today.

 

[John Connor]

I think your title needs to be about a new Apple Pencil with less, not more.

 

[anthony13]

The overcomplication and ******tification of APPLE continues.

There are way too many redundant products, confusing product names, and crappy prices for consumers

IMHO every Apple computer and mobile device should only be organized into 3 products named: Name of Product - Air, Name of product, and Name of Product - Pro

iPhone Air(SE), iPhone, iPhone Pro
iPad Air, iPad, iPad Pro
Macbook Air, Macbook, Macbook Pro
iMac Air, iMac, iMac Pro
Mac Air (Mac Mini), Mac (mac studio), Mac Pro

I also am frustrated by the chip naming! Just like with the device line, IMHO every chip should be only organized into 3 names: M#Air (Was M#), M#(Was M#Pro and Max), M#Pro (Was Ultra)

I came up with a theory a long time ago that basically its intentional. Through slow updates to nomenclature and ports, Apple continually keeps fans like you and I, (and the majority of the type of people who post on a forum about Macs like macrumors), obsessed with the 'perfect' line up. We re-buy things like air pod cases just to be ALL usbC, or to have all our products have the same processor family or tier. Ultimately they keep this game going indefinitely and have created an entire generation of OCD monsters obsessed with the naming methodology of their products.

 

[klasma]

The hidden USB-C port is what they _should_ have done with the Lightning port on the first generation, very elegant solution if you can't offer magnetic charging for whatever reason.

That would have required a Lightning-to-Lightning cable for pairing, which doesn’t exist.

 

[vegetassj4]

Looks a lot like the Hommie pencil I bought for less than half the price. Identical functionality or lack of functionality (pressure sensitivity).
https://www.hommiehk.com/product/ip...-ipad-pro12-9-3rd-4th-ipad-pro-11-ipad-air-4/

I can say though that I never had any use for pressure sensitivity (owned the 1st gen pencil before). So in general this is a great option for note takers that still want something from Apple.

Hommie don’t play that

 

[WilliApple]

So both USB-C and magnet charging?

Unfortunately not, magnets for storing.

 

[GrindBoxNotGears]

Just when I thought Apple was gonna bring magnet charging technology to the masses.

 

[klasma]

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[TheNewLou]

So people complained that the first Apple Pencil "stuck out of your iPad" (for all of 30 seconds) while charging, so this new one has USB-C, but you need to bring a cable with you to charge it?

I'll take the Apple Pencil 1, thank you.

 

[klasma]

Yes the 3 people trying to do serious artwork on 9th-10th gen iPad are left out in the cold today.

You forgot the iPad mini 5, which has a great display and is very handy when traveling.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

You forgot the iPad mini 5, which has a great display.

lol. Ok yes I forgot the other 2 people drawing on an iPad mini.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

You forgot the iPad mini 5, which has a great display and is very handy when traveling.

Heard you the first time.

 

[Nautilus007]

WOKe

Well, that was disappointing.

There may still be a new Pencil replacement for 2 coming, with mag tips and all that. Just not today.

Apple has been disappointing lately...focusing on a AR headset that nobody asked for but the things people want they don't deliver

 

[Howard2k]

Can I get a lightning adaptor for it?

 

[klasma]

Heard you the first time.

Sorry, I thought I was editing the first comment.

 

[TigerNike23]

Yaaaaaaaawn.

Anyone else think this is just as bad as the Mother Nature skit at the iPhone event?

 

[TigerNike23]

So people complained that the first Apple Pencil "stuck out of your iPad" (for all of 30 seconds) while charging, so this new one has USB-C, but you need to bring a cable with you to charge it?

I'll take the Apple Pencil 1, thank you.

Apple: “We’re environmentally friendly”

Also Apple: “You’ll need a USB-C cable to charge your pencil”

 

[klasma]

I really hope we haven’t entered a phase of Apple‘s new releases consisting of “We added USB-C!” and not much else.

Once they exhausted that they’ll be pushing for USB-D.

 

[Rychiar]

This more for people with the recent low end iPad. It can't work with the Pencil 2 and before this could only work with the Pencil 1 with the lighning port in its butt. Now they have a USB-C Pencil.

Apple's Pencil product "line" is kind of a mess of incompatibility.

none of it makes any sense. that iPad shoulda had magnetic charging. This port stuff is silly, you still need a cord to charge this pencil too. I miss Steve Jobs and clean product lines

 

[Account25476]

And of course iPad 9 gen doesn't support the USB-C Pencil.

 

[sunny5]

Wow, a new one is cheaper because it lacks some features.

 

[Kylo83]

Apple has ruined the iPad line

 

[ApplesAreSweet&Sour]

I cannot fathom why this exists.

Pressure sensitivity is also quite important to writing. This isn't significantly better than a 99 pence stylus.

The product range is an incoherent mess.

Great pressure sensitivity was one of the main selling points for getting 1st Gen Pencil.

I really don’t see why you wouldn’t get any basic stylus over this $79 option.

Obviously, the average consumer doesn’t understand what pressure sensitivity means and thinks any Apple Pencil will be like the ones they’ve experienced (but it isn’t).

At $79 with no pressure sensitivity, this new Pencil is (comparatively) very expensive.

This makes the 1st Gen discounted a very good deal.

 

[klasma]

So this is a 1.5 Pencil, with no wireless charging, or pressure sensitivity(which Pencil 1 has), but magnetically attaches for storages? I feel like the pressure sensitive thing was a very important thing for drawing, like the most important feature of a pencil.

It’s rather a Pencil √2 + √2 i on the complex plane, I would say.

 

[thadoggfather]

it's a good thing this thing released instead of getting new iPads today