I'm buying an iPad pro this weekend and was wondering if it was worth getting the Apple pencil as well?.... the thing is I'm not an artist so was wandering if it's better than a finger for other apps... do you find yourself using it as standard if you have it or only for the main apps that support it or do you use your finger?
Are there any upcoming "non-art" apps coming up that will take advantage of the pen?
Any thoughts welcome.
The Pencil is perfect to markup and comment pdf's. It is also the best choice to sign contracts because the signatures with other stylus look a bit different from your usual signatur on paper (most stylus have those thick tips and lower precision).
You can also use the Pencil instead of a mouse and keeping the screen longer clean. Useful while you are using the Pencil for other things anyway.
There are numerous note apps that include both text and free hand input that now support the Apple Pencil. The Pencil still allows for far finer control of hand drawn notes, figures etc than any stylus I've used with My iPad Air2 previously. I think for a student it would still be quite useful and I do use mine for that very purpose - sketching graphs, figures and so forth free hand when taking notes at meetings as well as marking up PDF (scientific papers) as I'm reading them. I have zero artistic talent and can't draw worth a dang, but I often have a need to animate my notes with figures and the pencil works exceptionally for that, allowing quick but fine detailed sketches of graphs, plots, figures and so forth.
it is pricey but I feel worth it - I mainly got my Pro and Pencil to see if I could ditch the need for a laptop as my work mobile platform (my air2 was not quite there, in my mind). I still have a Lenovo Yoga for work, but I typically use my Pro and Pencil for meetings, notes during the day, PDF markup, as well as project management (as I say, not an artist, I am a genomic biologist, and work primarily as a biostastician and bioinformatics specialist for a toxicology research company, so my idea of "pretty pictures" are generally produced with R or SAS scripts)
Go to a store and try one out on other apps other than drawing apps.
Only you can make that decision for yourself.
Do you use an iPad, now, and do you use a Bluetooth stylus with your current iPad?
There are various note taking apps that work with many stylli as well as the new Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro.
WHat the heck does that have to do with the Apple Pencil??
sounds like you're shilling for pebble watch to me
Obviously I'm going to try it but I've yet to see a review from a "non-artist" type person or an artist who finds it useful for non-artistic type apps [I've used an iPad since they came out but never with any stylus of any kind]
I'm about as non-artist as anybody can be. After using my finger for three years on my iPad then trying out the iPad Pro unless you're going to draw I see a stylus as a hindrence. On the other hand there are many people who use a stylus and wouldn't be without one.
I'm not 100% sure but I think the ability to use the pencil as a styjus on non-drawing apps has been removed.
bobseufert wrote:
I'm about as non-artist as anybody can be. After using my finger for three years on my iPad then trying out the iPad Pro unless you're going to draw I see a stylus as a hindrence. On the other hand there are many people who use a stylus and wouldn't be without one.
I'm not 100% sure but I think the ability to use the pencil as a styjus on non-drawing apps has been removed.
Bob,
I saw the article about this in Mac Daily News.
The Apple Pencil will still be supported inside any type of note or drawing app, but the article in Mac Daily News stated that Home screen/s navigation using the Apple Pencil will be coded out/disabled in the next (iOS 9.3 ) release.
So, the Apple Pencil will not work as a basic stylus for navigating normal iOS functions, like tapping icons, accsesing screens, navigating screen, system prefs, etc.
The Apple Pencil probably won't work with any web browsers, like Safari or iOS Mail or any of Apple's own apps like Pages, Numbers or Keynote, iBooks, etc.
The article stated that Tim Cook is making sure/emphasising that all of Apple's mobile devices and iOS are staying predominantly a touch screen interface/experience.
MichelPM wrote:
The Apple Pencil probably won't work with any web browsers, like Safari or iOS Mail or any of Apple's own apps like Pages, Numbers or Keynote, iBooks, etc.
The article stated that Tim Cook is making sure/emphasising that all of Apple's mobile devices and iOS are staying predominantly a touch screen interface/experience.
Thanks for the info MichelPM -- if you saw the interview on Charlie Rose on PBS apparently he believes everyone will eventually be using an apple watch instead of the IPAD or IPHONE -- so apple continues to push me in the direction of Windows - so sad.
I am not an Apple Watch or iPhone user.
I don't want to be tied to phone contracts to get an iPhone cheaper and subsidize its cost over the time of the plan.
I use an inexpensive Android phone on a month to month service that is fairly cheap for two phones on the plan.
The Apple Watch is way too expensive for what it is and Apple has tied it to only the latest iPhone hardware making the Apple Watch an even more expensive proposition.
I am very much an iPad and iPod Touch user.
Not a smart watch user, exclusively, above everything else.
I really like my iPads and less expensive iPod Touches and the 6th Gen iPod Touch comes really close to the latest iPhone models without the phone.
That stated, I purchased and own a less expensive Pebble smartwatch.
It works on both Android and ALL iDevices (except the iPad 2) over Bluetooth, too, and any other iDevice that can run iOS 8 or later.
There is no touch screen interface, but the watches smart functions, physical hardware buttons for navigation aren't a big hinderance to usability.
The Pebble OS is pretty solid and Pebble issues regular updates to their OS.
I can sync mine to my iPod Touch 6th gen or my iPad Pro.
It lasts over three days on a charge. So, I only have charge it twice a week.
I wasn't respinding to you, either.
In the top on the header box, below our Names/ID it states who I was replying to and I wasn't responding/replying to you or the previous poster.
I was replying to the the regular conrtibutors who are active in these communities.
My responses had nothing to do with either of you.
sallenmd wrote:
I do not profess to use Win 7. And where in the long post to which I replied is the Apple Pencil, the subject of the thread, mentioned?
You both got the info you needed at the beggining of this posting.
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which specific app do you use?
"I'm not 100% sure but I think the ability to use the pencil as a styjus on non-drawing apps has been removed."
... from what I understand they did but brought it back pretty sharpish due to an outcry
Is it worth getting the Apple pencil if you're not an artist?
