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17.11.2015

Who needs a stylus for a tablet? No one needs! Under Steve Jobs, Apple strictly adhered to this principle. But still he appeared - Apple Pencil.

The $99 Apple Pencil is only compatible with the new 12,9-inch iPad Pro, starting at $799. These numbers alone can scare off a potential buyer, although Apple never ceases to amaze that even at such prices, their gadgets are sold out like hot cakes.

Technically, the Apple Pencil is hard to fault. The device is a so-called active stylus. This means that the stylus's conductive tip not only powers the capacitive touch display, but also transmits its position and position to the iPad at the same time, 240 times per second. This makes some features available.

For example, if you hold the stylus at an angle in pencil mode, you can use it for hatching as if you were using a real pencil. This is possible due to the tilt sensors built into the stylus. Of course, the gadget needs electricity to transfer data, so the Lightning connector is installed on its other end, which connects the stylus to the iPad.

A full charge of the built-in battery should last for twelve hours of battery life, and a 15-second recharge - for 30 minutes. For a stylus that is unlikely to be used all the time, this is quite enough.

However, just as well as Apple managed to integrate 3D Touch technology into its iOS 9 operating system, Apple Pencil support at the software level looks just as underdeveloped. Of course, the stylus works in the note-taking application, but its practical use is actually limited to this, so Apple has partnered with Adobe and Microsoft.

Adobe is integrating stylus support into iOS apps like Photoshop Sketch for drawing. In it, the user can experience all the possibilities of the stylus. These include, for example, a virtual ruler for drawing straight lines. Even fingers can be used as a ruler when touched.

Microsoft, in turn, equips its Office for iOS programs with an ink drawing function, through which you can supplement digital documents with notes and freehand drawings. Sounds practical, but if you open such a document on a non-iPad Pro, you'll end up with a graphic-heavy Word file.

Thus, Apple Pencil should be considered rather as a reserve for the future. If more apps and future iOS devices support this accessory, then it definitely has a right to exist. And now we can only guess who is in the target audience of the $99 stylus.

Designers and people in other creative professions work mainly with graphic tablets without a screen, using a PC monitor as a display medium. And for amateurs who need to quickly make notes and drawings, there is no need to spend money on such an expensive accessory.

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