As an owner of both a Surface and an iPad Pro, I can confidently state that the stylus experience is much better on the iPad. The stylus is a neat gimmick on t

As an owner of both a Surface and an iPad Pro, I can confidently state that the stylus experience is much better on the iPad. The stylus is a neat gimmick on the Surface, but usability suffered after they stopped licensing their stylus tech from Wacom. Sometimes it tracks the stylus when you’re not quite touching the screen, so you get messy little lines before and after your strokes. The pressure sensitivity isn’t very good either. It doesn’t track well enough to take hand-written notes at the scale you’d write on paper, so you have to write in huge letters. Microsoft should go back to Wacom. As for Apple’s Pencil, it’s fantastic. It’s actually better than my Wacom Cintiq (admittedly, it’s a previous gen Cintiq. The new version may be better). The accuracy and latency are great, pressure sensitivity is excellent, and tilt sensitivity works well. The only bad thing is that you have to charge the stylus, but a full charge takes about 20 minutes. So if I were Microsoft, I wouldn’t be using the stylus as a selling point, considering their stylus is way behind the competition. And seriously Microsoft, you have no business trying to develop your own stylus tech just to save a few bucks. Wacom has this stuff figured out, so just pony up the dough and be done with it.