Some Apple Stores to Stop Selling First-Generation Apple Pencil Until USB-C Adapter Stock Improves

[Nuno Lopes]

Apple has always been a bit … let’s say … idiosyncratic in a bad way when it comes to some certain design and pricing decisions. But this year it went full blown ridiculous apart from the Macs.

 

[TKSX]

They should have made a version of ipad that is compatible with apple pencil 1 and pencil 2. That will help with the transition and product migration.

 

[hybrid_x]

Here's something that a lot of people might not know: The Apple Pencil 1 comes with a female-to-female Lightning adapter, so you can attach the Pencil to any Lightning cable for charging.

If you bought a Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse, or iPhone in the last year or two, you already have a USB-C to Lightning cable.

Pop the adapter that you already got with your Pencil 1 onto an existing Lightning cable, and you're good to go. I keep mine stashed in the pencil groove of my iPad case.

And I'll be totally honest… I didn't know the Pencil came with one until somebody told me about it. I dug around in the box for the Pencil and found it.

 

[cb3]

Pandemic inspired "Frankenstein" iPad. 🤖 Made of leftovers. A company has to do what it can do in these times.

 

[Dark_Omen]

This is what I was thinking - a lot of existing 1st gen pencils and they wanted to keep compatibility in schools and such.

But the more I think about it, given they still sell the 9th gen, they should have just moved forward with 2nd gen pencil on the 10.

Instead of focusing on what the cheapskate schools want, Apple should be focused on making a quality product.

These are for the typical consumer first and then the schools as a secondary customer. The fact that they require an adapter and only capability for the 1st generation Apple Pencil is laughable at a minimum and just utterly stupid on Apple's part.

Is Tim Cook sitting in his office all day picking his nose and not analyzing the work being done?

 

[lk400]

major oversight

Cant believe somebody didnt think about it!

 

[Dented]

I can understand why they didn’t want to abandon Pencil 1 as education buyers probably have piles of them, but given that they gimped the USB-C port to 2.0 speeds anyway, why not just stick with the lightning port on this iPad? Seems like USB-C just created a problem.

 

[_Spinn_]

This is just an embarrassing mess for Apple.