In the tired specticle of the stylus scene, Apple Pencil (and the enabler, iPad Pro) is a gamechanger. Ever since my first dab at Wacom graphite, stylus has always been a 'professional' device, as in, it was never truly user friendly. Like having to learn touch typing, Wacom tablets required you to learn reletive hand position to the screen position because you were drawing flat while looking at the screen. Cintiq was always out of the option due to its prohibitive cost. Suface Pro 3 was an exciting contender and its stylus is certainly capable, but the software required me to constantly fiddle around with tiny icons and interfaces developed for mouse and keyboard usage.
The announcement of Apple Pencil was dividing. Supporters cheered while many satirical jokes about Steve and his stance on stylus was thrown around. And, of course, the lack of eraser end fueled the misconception that Apple is always lagging behind in technology and use their fairy dust marketing to herd isheeps into buying superiorly packaged inferior products.
And lets face it, Apple Pencil is no more a pencil as iPad is really a pad of paper. No, they should have instead called it iPad Pro and the Magical Wand because this thing truly feels like something from Harry Potter. The first time you get it, you plug it into the Lightening port and it pairs. Then nothing happens. There is no calibration screen window, no button menu setup, no display size setting, no drivers to update. You just use this thing and it works.
Currently, the Notes app is handsdown the best calibrated. Photoshop Sketch and Procreate is about the same level as you would in Wacom tablets or Surface Pro 3, there is a slight but forgiving lag. But in Notes app, this thing is agile and sensitive. In other tablets, a slight force is required to start drawing, but Pencil draws at the slightest touch, rendering your handwriting as it should look on paper. No, the feel of the Pencil is definitely not same as pencil and paper as much as some reviews claim. It feels like you are drawing on a sheet of glass, but it feels great. It feels like you are gliding around like a figure skater. Too much fingerprints on the screen does sometimes create zones of friction, but when wiped, iPad Pro and Pencil is just rediculously smooth and swift.
So, when I read about complaints of no eraser, no buttons, and "but (insert product) had stylus way before", well, none of those really depreciate what this product is and intended to do. This thing may well have been created by JK Rowling because while all other stylus feels like technology, Pencil feels like something made up. And while all this hyperbole may be too much for some people, I can happly say, at least now we have a stylus that is worthy of such praise.
Apple Pencil is not perfect, but it is pretty much flawless in its execution; the only way it could be perfect would be to turn me instantly into an artist... that part, (un)fortunately, is not upto Apple.
signed,
iSheep
The announcement of Apple Pencil was dividing. Supporters cheered while many satirical jokes about Steve and his stance on stylus was thrown around. And, of course, the lack of eraser end fueled the misconception that Apple is always lagging behind in technology and use their fairy dust marketing to herd isheeps into buying superiorly packaged inferior products.
And lets face it, Apple Pencil is no more a pencil as iPad is really a pad of paper. No, they should have instead called it iPad Pro and the Magical Wand because this thing truly feels like something from Harry Potter. The first time you get it, you plug it into the Lightening port and it pairs. Then nothing happens. There is no calibration screen window, no button menu setup, no display size setting, no drivers to update. You just use this thing and it works.
Currently, the Notes app is handsdown the best calibrated. Photoshop Sketch and Procreate is about the same level as you would in Wacom tablets or Surface Pro 3, there is a slight but forgiving lag. But in Notes app, this thing is agile and sensitive. In other tablets, a slight force is required to start drawing, but Pencil draws at the slightest touch, rendering your handwriting as it should look on paper. No, the feel of the Pencil is definitely not same as pencil and paper as much as some reviews claim. It feels like you are drawing on a sheet of glass, but it feels great. It feels like you are gliding around like a figure skater. Too much fingerprints on the screen does sometimes create zones of friction, but when wiped, iPad Pro and Pencil is just rediculously smooth and swift.
So, when I read about complaints of no eraser, no buttons, and "but (insert product) had stylus way before", well, none of those really depreciate what this product is and intended to do. This thing may well have been created by JK Rowling because while all other stylus feels like technology, Pencil feels like something made up. And while all this hyperbole may be too much for some people, I can happly say, at least now we have a stylus that is worthy of such praise.
Apple Pencil is not perfect, but it is pretty much flawless in its execution; the only way it could be perfect would be to turn me instantly into an artist... that part, (un)fortunately, is not upto Apple.
signed,
iSheep
