Apple Invents Touch-Sensitive Stylus, Mobile That Knows Which Hand You're Using

Cool, this would be a good upgrade to the Apple Pencil which had patents dating back to 2010 (just saying that in case people comment about Steve Jobs not wanting a stylus).
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This is the Apple that addressed the competition "Yuck"?

Comparing styluses from 2007 to today is silly. Smartphones with touchscreens back then required a stylus. The iPad Pro doesn't require a stylus but it's a fantastic tool for artists and designers.

This is the sort of competition that Jobs was deriding:



...you needed the telescopic toothpick because the icons on screen were too small for fingers - especially with the rubbish resistive touchscreen.

That said, I'm not sure what Jobs would have made of an Apple Pencil sticking at right angles out of an iPad to charge, with the cap and female-female lightning adapter long lost down the back of the sofa of time...

You mean for the 15 seconds you plug it in?
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Why does Apple always overlook the simplest, most important points, before thy go off on bells and whistles? You know what happens when you use the back of a Microsoft Stylus? It erases. It also clips to the side of the tablet. And just having a simple button on the side would streamline so many tasks...

It's not as sexy, but I feel like Apple needs a dedicated division that focuses solely on getting the basic functionality right - streamlined, simple, beautiful, USEFUL. Then they can add superfluous complications all they want, so they can say it's more sophisticated than their competitors.

This wasn't an issue in the old days, because the people who made Apple products also used them, so they could see flaws in basic functionality.

The sp4 pencil is also not as good as the iPad Pro pencil.

This is the Apple that addressed the competition "Yuck"?

This is the sort of competition that Jobs was deriding:



...you needed the telescopic toothpick because the icons on screen were too small for fingers - especially with the rubbish resistive touchscreen.

That said, I'm not sure what Jobs would have made of an Apple Pencil sticking at right angles out of an iPad to charge, with the cap and female-female lightning adapter long lost down the back of the sofa of time...

Can't innovate anymore, my ass

15 seconds only gives you 30 mins charge - what if you want to fully charge it and haven't got the fiddly adapter to use it with a lightning cable... or what if you're taking a break and want to top up your iPad at the same time?


Maybe - it terms of performance - but where's the traditional Apple attention to detail?

Plug on the end makes it hyper-vulnerable when plugged in (even 15 seconds is 15 seconds of an accident waiting to happen) and rules out an "eraser" function.
Cap to lose and f-f lightning adapter to lose (why couldn't the adapter built into the cap?)
Even the Apple-made cases don't seem to feature pen storage.
Oh, yes, and its round so it can roll off tables (e.g. when its been put down on a table because there was nowhere else to store it). Even a regular pen clip would (a) stop it rolling and (b) let you store it in a shirt/jacket pocket.
Why weren't the Pencil and Smart Connector designed to be compatible - directly or via an optional pen-holder - so you could store & charge?

It's 15 seconds for a 30 minute charge, and for that is pretty cool. Don't want to use the to use that port them don't. I see no down side or hyper vulnerability.