I uh… I think Apple just stumbled backward into inventing the Nintendo DS.
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Will the Apple Pencil Work With the iPhone Fold?
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That you can put it in your pocket and with pencil support would make it the absolute best iPad Mini ever made.
It'd be nice for the pen to work with everything with a touch screen.
This is actually a great question and makes me think it may in fact work with a stylus due to the problem the other way around.
These things are so soft they can be easily scratched by fingernail, maybe a stylus would be a safer way to work with it.
I don't see why people who are complaining about possible no pencil support are looking past this.
As cool as foldable phones are this is a major problem with them.
It probably will support reverse-charging the USB-C Pencil. Like current iPhones already do (?).
Does anyone make a higher quality version of the "gas station sunglasses" stylus we know and hate? Perhaps with a more effective design? Does anyone know if Apple Pencil support could theoretically be enabled on iPhones, to any degree, via software update? Not that I'm holding my breath.
Foldable screens can easily be damaged by fingernails, so writing with a pen tip would not be a good idea. I cannot see this happening.
The galaxy fold supported it until the fold 7 where they dropped support "to make it thinner".
The pencil is my main journalling input tool. Old fashioned I guess, but my mind connects better to the page through a pencil than a keyboard. Even though I don't see a folding phone as a device for me, I will keep carrying my ipad in my backpack.
For anyone who desires the folding form factor, no matter how it comes out design wise, I hope it has the usability, the battery life, the physical longetivity, and all the good features you could wish for.
Would like it to be supported but looks unlikely that it will happen for the 1st generation. Also think that Apple might release a new Pencil for the foldable if and whenever it is supported.
I doubt it - the tip of the current pencils is likely going to be super bad for the thin hinge section given that the pencil is pressure sensitive and people push harder for tool control.
I can see pressure on the tip at the fold being super, super damaging.
I can see pressure on the tip at the fold being super, super damaging.
The more I think about it, the more I am reaffirmed in my belief it won’t.
Surface will be too soft
No place to put a proper pencil, and no way in hell they will make a tiny stylus that would fit with the folded state
Screen smaller than iPad Mini which is already pushing it for multitasking
My money is on plain iOS, but with the ability to run iPad apps fullscreen when unfolded. This is a foldable phone. Want an iPad? Get an iPad. Want a foldable iPad? SOL.
Surface will be too soft
No place to put a proper pencil, and no way in hell they will make a tiny stylus that would fit with the folded state
Screen smaller than iPad Mini which is already pushing it for multitasking
My money is on plain iOS, but with the ability to run iPad apps fullscreen when unfolded. This is a foldable phone. Want an iPad? Get an iPad. Want a foldable iPad? SOL.
It’s because they are not. A foldable screen with the leading OS, and two side-by-side screens with a useless OS, is two very, very different things, even if the size is similar. You said it yourself, Surface Duo didn’t fail because of the size, but because the software was bad (and because dual-screen is a deeply flawed concept).
Apple has worked long and hard to develop compliant customers eager to pay premium prices for anything with the fruity logo. It’s a stellar accomplishment envied by the competition.
Correct, because they have consistently delivered products of a very high standard, so customers assume automatically that any product with that fruity logo meets that standard, so they are willing to buy blind. No other company has that pedigree, for a reason.
But this is also the reason why so many feel burned when Apple does not meet that standard. But the alternatives still aren’t great.
It’s kind of like with presidents: If you fail consistently and openly, people stop complaining about it, it just becomes the new standard. Show people greatness, and they will expect greatness.