When Jobs released the first iPhone in 2007, he said, "Who would want a stylus?" Jobs refused to make a stylus because there wasn't a demand for it, and the reason Apple is making them now is simple: there's a demand for them. The segment of consumers who have a need for drawing and mapping has emerged, but the products on the market aren't satisfying them. So Apple stepped in.
How good is the Apple Pencil?
After the launch, many people are questioning Apple's innovation is weakening, because the three main new products, cell phones, TVs, and tablets on the so-called new features are other products have appeared. The netizens even spit out that the only thing innovative in this launch is the color.
The iPad Pro's innovativeness was dismissed precisely because of its use of a stylus, which Samsung used many years ago. But to say that Apple is copying Samsung would be a real injustice on Apple's part. Why?
1, accurate to every pixel
Then, Steve Jobs was firmly opposed to the production of stylus, and even in the finger of the touch screen test demonstration failed to calmly say to the audience: the user's fingers will get used to sooner or later. After that, Jobs has been firmly chasing the ultimate finger touch screen experience, which shows that he has great confidence in the finger touch screen experience.
But there's a big problem with fingers for graphic design functions: there's no way to be pixel-accurate. That's the reason Apple had to produce the Pencil. Not just because the ApplePencil nib is thinner and sharper than our fingers, but because Apple added an assisted sensing system to the iPadPro's screen, which makes the system sweep twice as often as usual when the screen senses the Pencil, up to 240 times per second, so that the Pencil can capture more touchpoints, and so that it can be pixel-precise in its drawings.
2. High-sensitivity sensor at the tip of the Pencil
In addition to the screen's auxiliary sensing system, the Pencil's tip has a built-in high-sensitivity sensor. This sensor and the screen's auxiliary sensing system together, you can make sense of the position of the pen tip, the strength of the contact screen, and the angle of tilt. The force determines the thickness of the line, the tilt allows for different strokes and shading effects, and the two together can create effects such as brushes, carbon pens, and more.
A Wall Street Journal reporter who reviewed the Pencil said the strokes were largely lag-free and the experience was good.
Combined with the iPad Pro's large screen, the Pencil is perfectly suited to help users with fine design work.
3, can work with fingers
Many stylus products have a huge bug, that is, when using the stylus to "hanging wrist". The "hanging wrist" is a standard posture when holding a brush, because this action allows the person holding the pen to use the power of the wrist to achieve the effect of "power through the back of the paper".
But modern humans are too degraded to perform such an elegant and difficult maneuver. So the ability to touch the screen with a stylus and a finger at the same time is very tempting for people in graphic design-related industries. Through scanning, the iPad's screen can differentiate between the tip of the pen and the finger, so the screen doesn't haphazardly reflect the finger's contact marks on the screen when using the Pencil.
The promo also shows another feature that allows users to control other tools such as a ruler with their fingers while holding the Pencil in the other hand to draw a line -- that is, using both functions at the same time. There's a huge resemblance to making drawings on real paper.
4. Superior battery life plus very fast charging
The Pencil's battery life is 12 hours, and when it runs out of power, you can unplug the cap and charge it directly on the iPad Pro through the Lightning connector. Charging is very fast, 15 seconds to ensure 30 minutes of use, that is, charging 6 minutes, Pencil can "full blood".
The Pencil can also be plugged into the iPad Pro for charging, since the Lightning connector on the iPad Pro is bi-directional, allowing for both power in and power out. It's also unique among Apple's many Lightning devices, and arguably one of the features designed specifically for the Pencil.
5, many features fully cooperate
Apple's launch event invited its nemesis Microsoft, because the software installed on the iPad Pro greatly cooperate with its new features, such as split-screen, and then Pencil. in addition to Microsoft's products, Adobe's many products such as Photoshop and other graphic tools are also on the Pencil. Adobe has also adapted Pencil to make it even more powerful.
Apple also said that developers are welcome to work together in the future to explore the potential of Pencil for more features.
At the launch event, the iPadPro display featured a special "mHealth" demonstration. It took five minutes to show people what Pencil can do when used in the medical field. Doctors can use the Pencil to explain your treatment to patients, and students can use the Pencil to dissect the human body and perform various harmless experiments on the iPad.
Of course, "mHealth" is still a very niche market, but what Apple is trying to convey is that there are infinite possibilities for Pencil in the future.
Brainwashed into buying?
Apple Pencil throws three pots of cold water to make you awake
1, in addition to professional drawing cartography, who needs it?
Compare the launch of the Pencil display in several application scenarios can be found, the most exciting part of the Pencil function is the drawing cartography part. Many users in related fields have commented that this is the best stylus on the market today.
But for the average office worker, the Pencil's application in these areas of document processing is very chicken ribs. As Steve Jobs said, the stylus is small, and you always have to put it away or it will hurt if you lose it, "Who wants a stylus?"
So invariably the Pencil's positioning towards a niche group, although it has excellent features, but for most users, these features are dispensable, can only be used to improve the style just, did not touch the soul.
2. The price is too high
The Pencil, like the soft keyboard, is an accessory for the iPad Pro and needs to be purchased separately, and it's not cheap at $99. The price of the lowest-cost iPad Pro is only $799, and a pen that costs $99 is bound to get a lot of flak from consumers.
Some netizens said, iPad Pro and Mac functions are similar, and the price is basically the same, why do you have to buy iPad Pro, Mac at least with a keyboard.
3, only on the iPad Pro to use
The most criticized problem is: so expensive accessories, but only on the iPad Pro!
This arrangement will only lead to one consequence: only those who really need the Pencil function will pay for this accessory, which is not conducive to the popularity of the product sales.
This is the same as Pencil's application scenarios, in the future perhaps Pencil can have more than one application area, but at present there are only a very limited number of areas that can maturely apply this technology. Similarly, in the future, Pencil may be able to adapt to all of Apple's products, but currently it can only be used on the iPad Pro.