dysamoria

The person who feels it’s useless might mean it’s useless to them. It’s semi useless to me as well because of the thing Apple sill hasn’t addressed with this new version: the tip. Against a smooth glass screen, it’s far too slippery. There’s no tooth. No friction. And, NO, I am NOT going to put a textured screen protector on to work around this problem.

Yes, there are people who do use these styluses without that complaint. Good for them. For me, however, I can barely use mine. I never got used to it because it just feels wrong. My Wacom stylus and tablet both provide friction between them. The Wacom styluses have interchangeable tips with different material. My favorite is the felt tip type which I have on two styluses. They feel natural. The sad part about them is that they’re on a blind tablet. I have to look at a screen and not the stylus. The iPad Pro and Apple Pencil was supposed to be the dream solution of letting me use a stylus ON the work space directly, without buying some Windows or Linux Wacom tablet screen mutation I didn’t otherwise need or want. But, the Apple Pencil was anything but a dream solution.

All I have used it for, after growing intolerant of the various inconsistently-implemented drawing/painting apps (the Pencil behaves differently in all of them), is to sign my name on PDFs, and those I have saved at this point and only need to drag and drop.

The $100 expenditure was a waste for me.

Oh yeah, have they fixed the way the Pencil quickly discharges its battery while not in use?

Computers have lacked decent (or, usually, any) air filters forever. This is an engineering mistake that we’ve been living with, for some reason, since day one of installing fans in computers.

Getting into the screen, though... damn. That’s new.

mentalrecon said:

Nobody used the smart connector because it offers limited functionality and the iPad Pro market is not very large compared to the non-pro iPad market or the iPhone market. If you are a company that makes accessories for iOS devices, are you going to dedicate your time and attention to a niche market or the mass market? Moving the connector is Apple's acknowledgement that the port is primarily just for Apple.

This is exactly how I took it when the first version appeared on the market, with my 1st generation iPad Pro. There may be ergonomic issues with the new one, but I don’t see that much has really been changed here. It’s an Apple connector for Apple’s keyboard.

The only thing that concerns me here is the continued attempt to make people use the word “Mac” like a personal pronoun.

None of these photos looks focused or at their native size. I’ve tried tapping on them to see if they’re linked to proper sized versions and I get nothing.

Also: no one has addressed the same problem with hair? When photographing pets, the aggressive de-noise effect has been especially egregious.

But yeah, I know, no one can tell, and photographers are mocked for claiming to be more attentive. Especially hard for the average person to know what’s going on when articles only serve up images that aren’t scaled or focused correctly.