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It doesn't appear to work much like a Wacom stylus at all. Wacom styluses are fairly passive, dumb devices, basically an induction coil in a plastic case. This

It doesn't appear to work much like a Wacom stylus at all. Wacom styluses are fairly passive, dumb devices, basically an induction coil in a plastic case. This appears to be a rechargeable, active-sensing device. I don't think this is unintentional. iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you.

praseodym 11y ago
Wacom has a patent on passive, induction-powered styluses: http://www.google.com/patents/US7358964 http://www.google.com/patents/US7358964
glasz 11y ago
> I don't think this is unintentional. iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you. spot on. i've heard that designers at apple are so fed up with the crap that is any wacom tablet because wacom doesn't innovate in any way anymore. their devices are clunky, ugly pieces of plastic. if not for public release, they'd be making the pro/pencil for their own. let's see what wacom does, now.
- jjtheblunt 11y ago
  You've heard?
- LazyAssasin 11y ago
  Yep. I bought one for my wife – an illustrator. I enjoyed it so much I bought one for me (UX/front end dev) and am Craigslist-ing our Wacom Cintiq and Intuos. The Cintiq lag is awful, while the disassociation between screen and tablet of the Intuos was always “best of a bad solution”. Personally, I always found the “give” in Wacom’s styli to accommodate pressure sensitivity too much for my liking, but my medium of preference was always lead holders; I suspect those who prefer painting, pastel or other softer medium might have the opposite opinion. It’s not perfect, there’s still some lag in different apps. Wacom also had a slightly better “tooth” on the drawing surface. The omission of an “eraser” can be annoying, though I would imagine less so for artists who wouldn’t use the eraser on a drawing implement anyway. The various buttons on both the Wacom tablet and the pen were also really helpful, though a bit overwhelming. Wacom also has a variety of nibs for different feeling brushes. My TL;DR the Wacom is a more productive and perhaps more capable tool, but the iPad Pro + Pencil combination is the closest any technology has come to replicating paper & pencil. When you compare the costs $799 for the cheapest 13" Wacom Cintiq vs $898 for the iPad Pro + Pencil it’s going to be a no-brainer for a lot of artists who aren’t deeply entrenched in a Wacom workflow.
theinternetman 11y ago
> iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you. They'd need the pro software to be a threat at all.
jafingi 11y ago
>I don't think this is unintentional. iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you. That was my first thought when Apple unveiled iPad Pro. It's directly pointed at Wacom's customer segment. And I think that Wacom is s* their pants. Apple might be the only real contender against Wacom. They have a strong connection to graphic designers etc., both design and functionality-wise.
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mhurron 11y ago
> iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom I see it as a response to the MS Surface, which people really like, including myself.

praseodym 11y ago

Wacom has a patent on passive, induction-powered styluses: http://www.google.com/patents/US7358964 http://www.google.com/patents/US7358964

glasz 11y ago

> I don't think this is unintentional. iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you. spot on. i've heard that designers at apple are so fed up with the crap that is any wacom tablet because wacom doesn't innovate in any way anymore. their devices are clunky, ugly pieces of plastic. if not for public release, they'd be making the pro/pencil for their own. let's see what wacom does, now.

jjtheblunt 11y ago
You've heard?
LazyAssasin 11y ago
Yep. I bought one for my wife – an illustrator. I enjoyed it so much I bought one for me (UX/front end dev) and am Craigslist-ing our Wacom Cintiq and Intuos. The Cintiq lag is awful, while the disassociation between screen and tablet of the Intuos was always “best of a bad solution”. Personally, I always found the “give” in Wacom’s styli to accommodate pressure sensitivity too much for my liking, but my medium of preference was always lead holders; I suspect those who prefer painting, pastel or other softer medium might have the opposite opinion. It’s not perfect, there’s still some lag in different apps. Wacom also had a slightly better “tooth” on the drawing surface. The omission of an “eraser” can be annoying, though I would imagine less so for artists who wouldn’t use the eraser on a drawing implement anyway. The various buttons on both the Wacom tablet and the pen were also really helpful, though a bit overwhelming. Wacom also has a variety of nibs for different feeling brushes. My TL;DR the Wacom is a more productive and perhaps more capable tool, but the iPad Pro + Pencil combination is the closest any technology has come to replicating paper & pencil. When you compare the costs $799 for the cheapest 13" Wacom Cintiq vs $898 for the iPad Pro + Pencil it’s going to be a no-brainer for a lot of artists who aren’t deeply entrenched in a Wacom workflow.

theinternetman 11y ago

> iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you. They'd need the pro software to be a threat at all.

jafingi 11y ago

>I don't think this is unintentional. iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you. That was my first thought when Apple unveiled iPad Pro. It's directly pointed at Wacom's customer segment. And I think that Wacom is s* their pants. Apple might be the only real contender against Wacom. They have a strong connection to graphic designers etc., both design and functionality-wise.

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mhurron 11y ago

> iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom I see it as a response to the MS Surface, which people really like, including myself.