"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." -Steve Jobs
He said this at the iPhone unveiling. For an iPad, a stylus makes a lot more sense imo.
Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
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#22Pencil. Jobs is spinning in his grave. Edit: 99 dollars !!
I like to joke too, but not really, if you're serious - Jobs always hated things until he could claim that Apple reinvented them. Even Gruber was making fun of it yesterday. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/08/gizmodo-netflix
In any case what Jobs meant was that the companies that were putting out devices that required a stylus to operate correctly were doing it wrong, and that's been proven pretty extensively by the kind of touch interaction that the iPhone popularized.
Specifically: the new iPad Pro works just fine with touch, but you also have an option of an Apple-sourced stylus for more intricate work.
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#23It looks like it would be really awesome to have, but I have a feeling that it's going to be much more expensive than the current iPads. If that's the case, it almost makes more sense to buy a Surface Pro 3.
If you're going to be using the web and Microsoft apps exclusively, it does, sure.
Or any number of 3rd party Windows applications?
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#24It is interesting comparing Microsoft and Apple's convertible tablet strategy. Microsoft's devices use the full OS and are basically laptops first and tablets second while Apple is doing the opposite. If this is truly designed to be "Pro" as in enterprise , I think Microsoft's strategy is going to lead to more productive and therefore better enterprise devices.
EDIT: And after the price is revealed the scales tip a little more in Microsoft's favor. The entry level iPad Pro is the same price as a Surface Pro 3, but has half the disk space and doesn't include the stylus.
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#26"Who knows more about productivity than Microsoft" ?
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#27It is in direct competition to the 'Surface Pro'.
Except it runs iOS and not a full desktop operating system. Why would a "pro" user choose this over a surface pro/MBP/ubuntu certified system?
It is not desktop, so that makes sense.
If it suits your workflow, why not? I can see it replacing wacoms for many.
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#28What about Pencil from 53? http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil
Edit: To clarify, seems like they shouldn't (maybe couldn't, but I don't see a TM on the 53 site) call it Pencil since there is already a device made specifically for iPad called Pencil.
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It didn't have apps. This one has all of iPad apps.