The new USB-C Apple Pencil supports hover with the iPad Pro and can attach magnetically — but at $79, it’s cheaper than the $129 second-gen Pencil.
The cheaper price means that the Pencil doesn’t come with some of the more advanced features as the first- and second-generation accessories. The device doesn’t support pressure sensitivity, wireless pairing and charging, or the double-tap feature that lets you switch between tools. However, it still supports hover with M2 models of the iPad Pro.
The lower price is nice, but zero pressure sensitivity is a big question mark IMO. You’d expect something at this price to have at least a few levels of sensitivity.
The device doesn’t support pressure sensitivity
So the targeted audience is… no one? The regular pens are very much aimed at artists.
Note takers, I guess…
I’ve been considering getting a wacom one to use on my Linux laptop.
There have been $30 third party pencils that work perfectly fine, I guess they will be almost the same as this one.
It’s too cheap and has no apple logo. The social suicide of an apple user.
This is actually ewaste. The normal pencils have been on sale fairly often for 99 bucks and the price difference isn’t really enough so all they’re doing is making trash in an attempt to lure people into paying the small amount more for the better version.
Most likely they will bundle it „for free“ with the education sale, and give you the more expensive one if you pay extra.
The hover feature works because it’s done on the iPad’s digitizer side, so afaik, it’s not the Pencil’s feature.
Yeah, but who would put it past Apple to disable it anyway?
