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Why can't Apple develop a stylus that functional for precision drawing.

APple is spending millions to fix a broke maps project, how about using some of those funds to develop a stylus that can be useful for precision drawing? Now that would be great asset to the user community.

iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 12, 2012 10:46 AM

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Nov 30, 2014 8:32 AM in response to deggie

The Technology is not in the Pen it is a screen that supports pressure sensitive pens that is needed . The wacom Cintiq is the only solution EXCEPT is way too expensive and that is because they ARE the only solution (only competition will bring the price down) and on top of $2000+ for a 24HD touch screen you still need a Mac (or PC) to connect it to. I feel Apple has forgotten that before the success of the iPhone, Graphics professionals were their key market and the MacPro was the Key product for that market. Apple some what taken the emphases off that market in favor of growing market share (and they could do that mostly because that market was SO loyal sometimes loyal to fault) Now Apple has produced a New Mac Pro but it is incomplete it is a wonderful piece of design but frankly it is beauty without much difference in function. Apple has some very good tablets in the iPad. And When the iPhone first was introduces Apple pointed out that the iOS was a trimmed down version of OS X based on the same code. BUT regardless of the core technology being based on a variant of OS X it means nothing as it is so different from OS X and can not run mac Apps so to the end user it does not matter if it was originally based on the core of OS X or not. SO the iPad is not a extension to your mac at all BUT it is not a complete computer ether. YES you can draw on it (if you like finger painting) but the Size of you fingers is the weakness of the design how can you select with any precision when your finger covers up what your trying to see?


Now Apple could and probably should have looked at their faith graphics customers and developed great tools for them but frankly that market as big as it is is tiny compared to the mass market consumers that just surf the web and post on facebook and instagram and the iPad is exactly what that market needs. Apple did not design the iPad as a way to sell more OS software. NOW the Touch screen functionality in Windows 8 that makes the Surface pro devises possible IS and WAS designed specifically to position Microsoft to Sell more Windows operating systems in a Market that is moving away from the PC to access the internet to more mobile devices. Apple on the other hand even though they still have Macs is focusing on future mobile computing. And I really feel they see Macs as a legacy device and not the future of Apple. and that is why we do not have a iMac touch screen or a MacBook Pro tablet that will run Photoshop or Zbrush or mudbox with built in pressure sensitive pen support.

Why can't Apple develop a stylus that functional for precision drawing.

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