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The Apple Pencil should be a key strategic advantage for the iPads and should be compatible with every model if not included in the box outright. Instead Apple

The Apple Pencil should be a key strategic advantage for the iPads and should be compatible with every model if not included in the box outright. Instead Apple restricts the Pencil to the Pro models. Microsoft won the Business world by owning the document format. Apple could win the education world by owning the handwritten notes format [1] if Pencils were standard What is Tim Cook's vision for education? Nobody fucking knows. One year Apple is trying to sell iPads claiming it's "whole new kind of computer" then a few months later they are wondering "what's a computer". Without a compelling vision the iPad will continue to flounder. p.s. I want a 7.9" iPad Pro [1] there is no open source .txt equivalent for hand written notes. We'll need one if OneNote/Apple Notes ever takes off

chrisseaton 9y ago
> The Apple should be a key strategic advantage for the iPads 'The Apple'? Apple is the name of the company, not any particular product or feature. What do you mean it should be compatible with all iPads?
- arbie 9y ago
  I think he a word: The Apple Pencil
duncanawoods 9y ago
I put some effort into seriously transferring over note-taking and journaling to an iPad Pro and Pencil. The initial experience was so delightful that I thought it could be amazing. - I initially liked the experience of writing on glass - its fast and the responsive but quality seriously suffers - letter roundness and stroke subtlety is lost to become spider-scrawl. This meant that reading it back later became a deeply unpleasant and difficult experience reducing the value of writing anything at all. I committed to it and it didn't seem to be a technique issue but a combination of the zero friction pen/screen interaction and how strokes are recorded and rendered. The one thing I did not try was a screen protector to add more friction. - electronic store of handwriting did not not prove useful. It became a worse experience than flicking through loose leaf paper which you can layout, rearrange, pin up etc. There is no handwriting recognition or anything to add value like searching. If I ever wanted to make ink digital, I could take a photo in 2 seconds. - There is something psychological and so special about ink, paper, flow experience. When you write with ink, you make a mark on the world. The experience and art is lost on a screen. Its also pretty weird when the screen gets hot and it increases the time you are staring closely at a screen which is more fatiguing than taking a break to stare at paper. - IOS is just a bad productivity platform - copy text out of a webpage/ebook into notes? Ugh. Get a pdf onto the iPad. Ugh. It hobbles the user at every turn. Delight turns into impotent rage at anti-user design decisions to keep you buying media from Apple. I found I either wanted real text notes and all the high quality text tooling I am used to on a laptop or the real pen and ink experience for the flow and flexibility. A week later, I returned the 12" pro and pencil - the initial wow-factor turned into loathing. Its worse than the cheapest pen and paper.
- arrythur 9y ago
  I completely agree, except my experience was on a Surface Pro 4. Let me start by saying it's a fantastic product and the experience of writing/erasing with the pen was great. I commit to it for a few months in college and while it was fun to write on, I found that it became more of a hassle when I would try to study or refer back to my notes. I would be switching tabs constantly on OneNote then back to a browser, then back to my notes, etc. With traditional pen/paper, it leaves your computer fully available for research, videos, or quick references without having to switch around. Great products overall, but the experience is still lacking in that regard.

chrisseaton 9y ago

> The Apple should be a key strategic advantage for the iPads 'The Apple'? Apple is the name of the company, not any particular product or feature. What do you mean it should be compatible with all iPads?

arbie 9y ago
I think he a word: The Apple Pencil

duncanawoods 9y ago

I put some effort into seriously transferring over note-taking and journaling to an iPad Pro and Pencil. The initial experience was so delightful that I thought it could be amazing. - I initially liked the experience of writing on glass - its fast and the responsive but quality seriously suffers - letter roundness and stroke subtlety is lost to become spider-scrawl. This meant that reading it back later became a deeply unpleasant and difficult experience reducing the value of writing anything at all. I committed to it and it didn't seem to be a technique issue but a combination of the zero friction pen/screen interaction and how strokes are recorded and rendered. The one thing I did not try was a screen protector to add more friction. - electronic store of handwriting did not not prove useful. It became a worse experience than flicking through loose leaf paper which you can layout, rearrange, pin up etc. There is no handwriting recognition or anything to add value like searching. If I ever wanted to make ink digital, I could take a photo in 2 seconds. - There is something psychological and so special about ink, paper, flow experience. When you write with ink, you make a mark on the world. The experience and art is lost on a screen. Its also pretty weird when the screen gets hot and it increases the time you are staring closely at a screen which is more fatiguing than taking a break to stare at paper. - IOS is just a bad productivity platform - copy text out of a webpage/ebook into notes? Ugh. Get a pdf onto the iPad. Ugh. It hobbles the user at every turn. Delight turns into impotent rage at anti-user design decisions to keep you buying media from Apple. I found I either wanted real text notes and all the high quality text tooling I am used to on a laptop or the real pen and ink experience for the flow and flexibility. A week later, I returned the 12" pro and pencil - the initial wow-factor turned into loathing. Its worse than the cheapest pen and paper.

arrythur 9y ago
I completely agree, except my experience was on a Surface Pro 4. Let me start by saying it's a fantastic product and the experience of writing/erasing with the pen was great. I commit to it for a few months in college and while it was fun to write on, I found that it became more of a hassle when I would try to study or refer back to my notes. I would be switching tabs constantly on OneNote then back to a browser, then back to my notes, etc. With traditional pen/paper, it leaves your computer fully available for research, videos, or quick references without having to switch around. Great products overall, but the experience is still lacking in that regard.