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The real issue is the Apple Pencil should have been what the "Apple Pencil (2nd Generation)" was from the start. The Surface line made it obvious years ago tha

The real issue is the Apple Pencil should have been what the "Apple Pencil (2nd Generation)" was from the start. The Surface line made it obvious years ago that the magnetic docking was essential. Would have made much more sense to wait than to have two different pencils not cross compatible at all, I mean even if you bought the first iPad Pro and the Pencil then decided to upgrade to the next iPad Pro you can't use the old pencil with the new iPad with the excuse of it needing a lightning port to pair when plenty of other pens exist using wireless technology that just have a button to kick them into pairing mode. For a company that claims to care about e-waste I find all this ridiculous.

asark 8y ago
The 1st gen Pencil's charging/pairing plug is ridiculous. It's like someone at Apple made a joke charging interface and that was accidentally sent to production. Lose the dumb little magnetic cap, which you have to leave entirely off of it when it's charging, and it's just a matter of time until the plug gets broken. Lose the even smaller gender changer and you can't charge the damn thing without plugging it into your ipad, a configuration that looks made to cause problems (i.e. break something) and by the way makes your ipad unusable while it's happening. Swapping the gender on the Pencil's connector and making pairing the operation that requires an adapter would have been an instant, major improvement, but the whole thing needed a re-think from scratch. Side note: can you seriously not use the original pencil with new ipads, even with a cable adapter of some sort to pair them? I was planning to pick up a used or refurb of the current gen when the next one comes out, but that might throw a wrench in those plans, unless I luck out and find one used including the new pencil, like I did with my Gen 1 ipad pro.

asark 8y ago

The 1st gen Pencil's charging/pairing plug is ridiculous. It's like someone at Apple made a joke charging interface and that was accidentally sent to production. Lose the dumb little magnetic cap, which you have to leave entirely off of it when it's charging, and it's just a matter of time until the plug gets broken. Lose the even smaller gender changer and you can't charge the damn thing without plugging it into your ipad, a configuration that looks made to cause problems (i.e. break something) and by the way makes your ipad unusable while it's happening. Swapping the gender on the Pencil's connector and making pairing the operation that requires an adapter would have been an instant, major improvement, but the whole thing needed a re-think from scratch. Side note: can you seriously not use the original pencil with new ipads, even with a cable adapter of some sort to pair them? I was planning to pick up a used or refurb of the current gen when the next one comes out, but that might throw a wrench in those plans, unless I luck out and find one used including the new pencil, like I did with my Gen 1 ipad pro.