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New USB-C Apple Pencil Now Available for Purchase
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iPad 10 and USB-C Apple Pencil should not exist. iPad Air should have been renamed to "iPad" and kept on a processor two generations behind iPad Pro, and priced accordingly. iPad 9 should have been kept around only for corporate and education bulk buys, and removed from Apple's online consumer store and physical stores. iPad Pro should have MagSafe 3, Thunderbolt 4 and SD Card, 120 Hz display, 4 speakers, and at least the latest iPhone processor, albeit with more RAM.
iPad mini, iPad, iPad Pro (and education iPad 9) ✅
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No pressure (or tilt?) sensitivity, still uses power and has a charging port.
This feels like the most pointless thing I've ever seen. Is this for the 1% of people who want a stylus but need it to say Apple on the side? Is there even a measurable improvement in accuracy over just using a nice capacitive stylus?
This feels like the most pointless thing I've ever seen. Is this for the 1% of people who want a stylus but need it to say Apple on the side? Is there even a measurable improvement in accuracy over just using a nice capacitive stylus?
By disclaimer, you mean it’s actually written in the description. They have a direct comparison on the product page. If people want to buy based on choices, they should maybe, look at the choices.
They did it! They somehow managed to even fragment the Pencil line. Great job!
You get a 👎on your post because someone doesn’t think they should read about a product before they buy it! Thats pretty funny. 😂
Struggling with the internet tonight?
This pencil is mainly the the 10th gen iPad released last year that has USB-C but due to the camera placement cannot charge the Pencil 2. It’s clearly a short term fix until they can get around to redesigning all of the iPads with USB-C, landscape oriented camera, and a place to put the pencil for inductive charging.
Right now the iPad line has a little that is old, a little that is new, a little that is borrowed, and a little that is just weird.
The biggest number of Pencils are sold at 3rd party retailers to non-techie consumers.
These buyers are familiar with the looks of Gen. 1 and Gen. 2 Pencil and will thus, understandably, look at the USB-C Pencil and think the Gen 2. Pencil is just $79 now and does wired USB-C charging.
I have two family members working retail and they have to hold mini-presentations on the difference between the real iPads Air and the fake Air (iPad 10th Gen) ones nearly every week.
This new Pencil SE in "wolf's clothing" will only lead to more "mini-presentations" and lots of buyers, understandably, getting this Apple Pencil Low Value-Edition and not get why it won't charge when their kid tries to attach it to their iPad, or why its not auto-pairing or charging on their Air or mini.
Or thinking the $129 2. Gen Pencil will work with their new iPad 10th Gen. because the marketing material and billboards show iPad 10th Gen with a 2nd Gen.-looking Pencil that attaches to the side.
Endless possibilities for confusion.
If Apple can make the iPhone line-ups as unmistakably "budget, mid-tier, and high-end", that no buyers fail to grasp, then surely it can do the same for Apple Pencil?
I genuinely hope Apple Stores and customer services hotlines across the nation are flooded with returns and wasted hours spent explaining the stark, technical differences between these unnecessarily similar looking products to clueless buyers.
Couldn't they at least have named it "Apple Pencil Lite", "Apple Pencil SE", or "Apple Pencil for iPad 10th Gen." or made the first colored Pencils, one in each of the 4 iPad 10th Gen. colors?
It just
EDIT: @steve09090 makes a good point just below this post, hence this edit and striketrough.
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The point was, from reading their post, was that people would have to buy a USB C cable for the pencil. This was wrong because you get a usb C cable WITH the iPad it is designed for. You don’t need to buy a USB C cable for the pencil because they already have one.
I thought the whole idea and the reason people have been crying so much about Apple not producing USB C accessories was because of E-Waste. Now they have done/doing it, they cry over something else. Sooks.
That's the one where the tip of the stem on your AirPod can be used as a stylus. The caveat is that this version doesn't actually play any music. The charging case looks and feels identical to an AirPods 3rd gen charging case, and both the Music Playing Pods and the Pencil 2 buds fit in either case, but they are mutually incompatible. Oh and the case has a lightning port but ONLY a lightning to USB-A cable will charge them. The USB-C Lightning cables won't work.
besides most here typing what this pencil cant do
does this pencil attach to a iPad 10, and how?
those three dots?
according to .com this is how the pencil attaches:
which is upside down on an iPad gen 10 but a nice feature.
then my pencil 1 attaches to the iPad but no charge.
so this wont replace a pencil 1 for an iPad gen 10.
does this pencil attach to a iPad 10, and how?
those three dots?
according to .com this is how the pencil attaches:
which is upside down on an iPad gen 10 but a nice feature.
then my pencil 1 attaches to the iPad but no charge.
so this wont replace a pencil 1 for an iPad gen 10.
it will attach magnetically to the iPad 10, but it won't charge.