Erasable Logo on Apple's Homepage Hints at New Apple Pencil Coming Tomorrow

[california_kid]

Secret feature - buy two Apple Pencil Pros and you can use them as Apple Chopsticks that:

• Has special magnets that make it easy to use for beginners
• Tell you how much calories you're eating
• Gives the temperature of your noodle broth
• Anti-noise capability to mask your slurping sound
• Levitates in the air so you don't have to set it down

 

[SpringKid]

I bought an Apple Pencil 2 and used it maybe 3 times, so they will have a hard time getting $199 out of me. Erasing for digital artists seems like it will be a really nice feature though.

Just out of curiosity, how come you bought one in the first place?

 

[ArtistDaveeBee]

While I’m always interested in iPad Pro and Pencil upgrades, the logo animation intrigues me… Are they teasing their own art apps, or simply showing us applications that are ready to show off the capabilities of the new hardware? I could be reaching. What I don’t want to see is Apple do its usual routine and buy out an app like Procreate and add to its native line-up. I’m really just hoping that the latest pencil (if it wows me enough) is compatible with the latest generation iPad Pro before this announcement 🤞.

 

[CarAnalogy]

A pencil with an eraser on it!

Reminds me of the Samsung commercial with the guy mimicking head asplodes because the headphone jack is on the bottom.

Truly, we live in an age of wonders. Maybe CFed shouldn't have said that. Its level of mockability is right up there with "Courage."

 

[BGPL]

MFW the apple pencil is the star of the event. #outofideas

 

[atomic.flip]

When I was 14 and in my first year of iGCSE I turned in my Math workbook with the first three months of material in pencil. My teacher looked at it and then looked up at me in disbelief and asked “What is this??? pencil?!” And I replied “yes I did my work in pencil…”.

She asked me why I didn’t use pen and ink for my work instead?

I was kinda surprised and pleaded “But if I make a mistake how am I supposed to make corrections without an eraser?”

Her singular response was “Mr. Redacted, you’re at the age where you should no longer be making mistakes!”

Let’s just say that given my past experience and the fact I’m now just a few months away from turning 46… the Apple Pencil, now with an eraser is extremely unimpressive… LOL 🤣🤣🤣

 

[mazz0]

No way - have they finally listened to me and they’re putting an eraser on the end?! I mean, if they’re *not*, then this advert is really taking the piss.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

I hope M4 arrives but not holding my breath. Maybe this will be 2 hours almost entirely about a "we think you'll love it" pencil?

35 minutes. Like the event in October.

 

[ZZ9pluralZalpha]

Maybe this will be 2 hours almost entirely about a "we think you'll love it" pencil?

Semi-good news for you then, Gurman says it’ll only be 35 minutes

 

[19callum93]

Fire Apple event that I really don’t care about 🫣

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Semi-good news for you then, Gurman says it’ll only be 35 minutes

So iPad, iPad, Pencil... "we think you'll love it!" and "Only Apple..." Done.

Sounds very much like no M4 if that rumor is true.

 

[sos47]

A pencil with an eraser. Ok

 

[verniesgarden]

Just out of curiosity, how come you bought one in the first place?

I am personally in the same boat, I bought it thinking I'd use it more.

 

[iLilana]

Launch an AVP with an M2 and ~3 months later launch an iPad with an M4? doesn't add up.


M4 isn't coming tomorrow. These things are coming:
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I will giggle as all the M4 predictions get shot down. It would be nice to see a universal Apple Pencil for all iPads and iPhones.

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

I might even skip this event tbh. I use my Apple Pencil like once a month maybe. If you use it and need it that’s cool but iPads are just not that interesting to me anymore.

What is the pencil specifically used for?
Drawing and art? Or are there other functions?

I wonder how often Apple has considered doing 1 event a year, instead of two, ( the one in September)?

 

[Botts85]

Truly, we live in an age of wonders. Maybe CFed shouldn't have said that. Its level of mockability is right up there with "Courage."

You didn’t hear that as Apple mocking themselves?

It definitely wasn’t a serious comment, it was self-deprecating humor.

 

[SpringKid]

I am personally in the same boat, I bought it thinking I'd use it more.

But for what did you buy it then? I mean, I had a clear goal when I bought mine, and that is to use it to draw in Procreate. I really do understand people don‘t use it if you have no specific task that benefits from using it, but then again I also don’t really understand why one would buy it in the first place then.

 

[NEPOBABY]

I will giggle as all the M4 predictions get shot down. It would be nice to see a universal Apple Pencil for all iPads and iPhones.

No. Adding a Pro digitiser on the low end just raises cost for everyone who doesn’t use that feature.

Don’t think about yourself. The world doesn’t revolve around you.

 

[tivoboy]

Is it REALLY 07:00 PST? I guess with it just most likely being recordings, but I thought all these were mostly at 10:00 PST

Asking, b/c I happen to be in HST at the moment. ;-)

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

now that I think about it, the charger should look like the old school pencil sharpeners classrooms used to have lol

..maybe third party.

 

[cmbarclay]

A pencil with an eraser. Ok

Yep the whole 35 minute event will be about a Pencil Pro

 

[aidler]

Wait for it....

They will only release a new and very expensive pencil. No news about new
iPads, AI or any other new devices.

 

[kazmac]

Oh that's fun.

I'll probably still use Undo in Prcoreate until I'm used to the eraser though. 😁

Looking forward to tomorrow morning's event.

 

[neutrino17]

I’m disappointed that it will be so short. We have to wait so long for these at least it should be an hour.

I’ll probably get a new iPP 12.9 and Pencil. I use the Pencil all day long. I scribble notes on PDFs, I sign documents, I makes sketches of things I’m planning, and I can solve sudoku puzzles in my newspaper’s PDF.

I’m skeptical it will be an M4. It just seems too early. It might be possible for the iPad Pro. They don’t sell huge numbers so it would be a chance to get them out there without needing a huge volume of them. If that was the case, you’d think Apple would put them in a MacBook to be used by developers. Although I’d like to see it I give it about 5% chance of happening.

I think if they were putting an M4 in the iPad they would spend at least 30 minutes just on the M4. If the event really is just 35 minutes then there is little chance for the M4 to make an appearance.

 

[svish]

Interesting. Excited to see what Apple is launching within the next 12 hours!