Apple Pencil

You know, it's not a primary interface.

And also I've never been a fan of the argument that, you know, he hated styluses and so would never have liked the Apple pencil because as Rob said, you know, you'd lay it flat.

It's kind of like paper and, And I don't think that unless you could lay this device flat, it offers anything that is as elegant and convenient as an iPad or as a trackpad for interacting with this device.

I have more I could say, but we're out of time.

Hmm.

Because he generally believed that a product was only viable when the technology was good enough to make it simple.

And so, for instance, you know, I mean, we talked about the Apple Pencil, but you could go back before, you know, he never wanted videos on an iPod.

And then suddenly the screens got slightly better and the batteries got better.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

I wish that it wouldn't really make a lot of sense to have Apple Pencil support, but for the designers out there, I think having a really, you know, very intentional pressure sensitive object like the Apple Pencil Pro to actually draw on screen does make sense because there are, you know, Wacom tablets and things like that that designers use.

So using my big fat finger to draw isn't going to be as precise as a tablet that's designed for that purpose.

Not by a long shot.

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So that's kind of the only...

I was really thinking it'd be really cool if the Apple Pencil worked with it.

But according to my quick Google search, it doesn't.

So Apple has confirmed that it does not support the Apple Pencil or any stylus, according to Gizmodo.

I feel like if they included stylus support too, that would kind of make sense.

Maybe if you're doing some artwork on – this is like the – ProLite is really for those hardcore users because – I mean, it starts out at $4,000 Canadian.

Yeah,

insane.

Pencil, you know, that's the fact that nobody wants a stylus.

And now there are, you know, all things are starting to use the Apple Pencil like the Duo, I believe, uses not the Apple Pencil Pro, but the old Apple Pencil.

And Steve famously said, no one ever, we should never have a stylus.

That's just stupid.

And then, you know, well, we have a stylus for the iPad and now we have a stylus for the, you know, for the Duo.

And who knows, maybe there'll be a day when you have a, you can use the Apple Pencil on your MacBook Pro, ProLED XDR display touch thing, whatever that's called.

But I would say, The people at Apple, so the people who are product people, who are creative, not marketing people, but people who are coming up with the ideas for the products and who are building the products and who are doing the engineering work to bring new technologies to life and make them possible for the product people to use in their products like that, those people, they probably know something, I'm sure, they know something we do not know.

They probably can imagine the use here that you and I, as normals, would never...

You know, it's not a primary interface.

Um, and also I've never been a fan of the argument that, you know, he hated styluses and so would never have liked the Apple pencil because as Rob said, you know, you'd lay it flat.

It's kind of like paper.

Um, And I don't think that unless you could lay this device flat, it offers anything that is as elegant and convenient as an iPad or as a trackpad for interacting with this device.

I don't disagree with any of that.

One of the things I did think about ahead of this conversation was the number of times Jobs changed his mind during his own lifetime because he generally believed that a product was only viable when the technology was good enough to make it simple.

And so, for instance, you know, I mean, we talked about the Apple Pencil, but you could go back before, you know, he never wanted videos on an iPod.

And then suddenly the screens got slightly better and the batteries got better.

You know, it's not a primary interface.

And also, I've never been a fan of the argument that, you know, he hated styluses and so would never have liked the Apple Pencil because, as Rob said, you know, you'd lay it flat.

It's kind of like paper.

And I don't think that unless you could lay this device flat, it offers anything that is as elegant and convenient as an iPad or as a trackpad for interacting with this device.

Because he generally believed that a product was only viable when the technology was good enough to make it simple.

And so, for instance...

You know, I mean, we talked about the Apple Pencil, but you could go back before, you know, he never wanted videos on an iPod.

And then suddenly the screens got slightly better and the batteries got better.

It's not a primary interface.

And also, I've never been a fan of the argument that he hated styluses and so would never have liked the Apple Pencil because, as Rob said, you lay it flat.

It's kind of like paper.

And I don't think that unless you could lay this device flat, it offers anything that is as elegant and convenient as an iPad or as a trackpad for interacting with this device.

I don't disagree with any of that.

One of the things I did think about ahead of this conversation was the number of times Jobs changed his mind during his own lifetime because he generally believed that a product was only viable when the technology was good enough to make it simple.

And so, for instance, you know, I mean, we talked about the Apple Pencil, but you could go back before, you know, he never wanted videos on an iPod.

And then suddenly the screens got slightly better and the batteries got better.