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10.8-inch, 8.5-inch iPads will have 20W charger, iPhone 12 won't, says Ming-Chi Kuo
OK but this is Apple, not Oculus that will be sued. China had imposed iPhones that charge without starting up, for example.avon b7 said:
As long as the lack of charger is made clear during the order process there wouldn't be a problem.macplusplus said:Apple must provide the iPhone in working order, without the charger this is not possible. Otherwise they will face a cascade of lawsuits all over the world. It is even relatively easy to pressure governments to prohibit the sale of phones without a charger, as a shortcut to long and painful lawsuits.
Plenty of devices ship without chargers already.
The Oculus Go is one big name example.
Besides, the lack of the charger during the order is a very weak argument for the seller. The courts will mostly ignore that and will judge on behalf of the consumer.
Furthermore, Apple is very strict regarding the use of original chargers. So the argument of providing 3d party options to the user will not help either, because the mandatory use of 3d party chargers then will incite a cascade of electrocutions and explosions, fraudulous or real.
There is only one situation Apple may not include the charger: if this is imposed by the law, namely the EU legislation that may require all smartphones to provide USB charging. Apple may easily comply with this by providing a USB to Lightning charging adapter for Lightning iPhones. Even in that case, the risk of fraudulous electrocution and explosion lawsuits may not go away for Apple.
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10.8-inch, 8.5-inch iPads will have 20W charger, iPhone 12 won't, says Ming-Chi Kuo
Apple must provide the iPhone in working order, without the charger this is not possible. Otherwise they will face an avalanche of lawsuits all over the world. It is even relatively easy to pressure governments to prohibit the sale of phones without a charger, instead of proceeding to long and stressful lawsuits.
The type of the charger may not be decided yet at this time, and that guy uses that to sneakily attack Apple. -
Testing Scribble on iPad with Apple Pencil in iPadOS 14
There is only one other pencil, Logitech’s. Others are not pencils.phred said:Will Scribble work with the Logitech pencil and others?
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Testing Scribble on iPad with Apple Pencil in iPadOS 14
Apple has better solutions on the iPad Pro. The display provides the friction naturally by vibrating. For non Pro iPads one may buy those silicon Apple Pencil tip covers sold on Amazon. So Apple has no need to produce different tips for different friction levels, a third party solution can do the job. I simply trained my hand to write accurately on a slippery display.danvm said:
I didn't knew about the "scratch out" for erasing. For some reason, I miss that in the WWDC keynote. That's a big improvement over double tap. Being better than the eraser, maybe. I can see cases where the eraser is easier vs scratching out. For example, erasing long part of a note or erasing multiples notes in a PDF document requires less effort with the eraser vs scratching out each note. At the same time, I suppose there are cases where scratching out would be better.dewme said:
Actually, Apple nailed the erase thing with Scribble. All you have to do is “scratch out” the text you want to erase, as if you’re trying to black it out. It works great and is much better than flipping the pen on a Surface. A lot of things work great with Scribble once you conform to the tool’s expectations, and I guess as others have said, get over the unnatural “writing on glass” ergonomic. I’m not there yet, so either I need more training, the tool needs more training, or some combination of the two.danvm said:
I do a lot of writing in my Surface Pro and it's very nice the you can change the friction level by replacing the tip in the Pen. The writing experience improves a lot. I think Apple should do the same, instead of just stop thinking about it.melgross said:as for the glass feel. Well, I’ve been over that for years now. You just have to stop thinking about it.
Another thing that IMO will improve the writing experience with the Pencil is a eraser. It's very quick and easy turn the Pen to erase something in the Surface instead of the double tap you have to do with the Pencil.
Like I said, this is a tough problem that many technically and human factors experts have been attacking for decades. Some of them put more emphasis on the pen side of the equation and others put more emphasis on the writing surface part of the equation. As users, we are the in the middle and our experience between pen/pencil and paper/tablet really determines how well the system delivers on the promise. Apple’s approach seems to be very successful for artists and sketchers but handwriting is a tougher problem to solve.
For me, part of the problem is that I haven’t actually been writing a whole lot for a very long time. Handwriting is no longer my primary means of getting thoughts committed to a permanent or semi-permanent form. My muscle memory associated with handwriting is way out of shape. I suspect I’m not alone, especially when I see how adept younger people who grew up with smart devices in their hands from a very early age are at text entry on phones. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of younger people struggle to write using a pen/pencil on paper. Perhaps they would prefer writing on glass, but I suspect they’d rather just type.
Regarding the writing experience, I think Apple should improve it. Apple drawing experience is better than the Surface, but writing experience IMO is better with the Surface. And friction is one of the reasons. I see no reason that I have to adapt to a worst experience when you can improve with something as simple as replacing the tip, as MS did with the Pen.
Regarding taking notes vs typing, I agree with you that many people prefer typing for most things. But there are cases where note taking is better, for example when annotating a PDF or Word document, or when working with equations. In addition, it's completely silent compared to keyboards, and that's a big plus in conference rooms
It's nice to see Apple and MS improving in this area, specially for me, since I have to take notes in a weekly basis. -
Testing Scribble on iPad with Apple Pencil in iPadOS 14
Handwriting recognition is not limited to Pencil 2, it works with Pencil 1 too.ehtom825 said:Is it only for the 2nd generation pencil??
