![]() Post contributed by Brandon Pribbernow On September 9, 2015, the Apple Corporation released a new line of products which includes the Apple iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. Apple is a great company that produces great but high-priced products that people continue to buy. The iPad Pro is the newest version of the Apple iPad products. The Apple Pencil is something completely new to the company, and is something that they have never done before. I personally do not feel the Apple Pencil will be a very successful product. When I first heard of the Apple Pencil, I was very interested to see exactly what its purpose was and how it would be used. After looking into the product, I do not see it going very far or being very popular. The Apple Pencil is an overpriced, over-glorified stylus, which will only work on the Apple iPad Pro. This means if you have any other touchscreen Apple product that came out prior to fall of 2015, the Apple Pencil is completely useless to you. The features on the Apple Pencil are also very limited, and buying this product would be a great way to waste $100. What I find most entertaining about the idea of the new Apple Pencil is how one of the founders and creators of the Apple Corporation felt about styluses. When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone back in 2007, he hated the idea of a stylus, as you can hear from this short video clip. I completely agree with him in this video, a stylus is just another material item that a customer will most likely lose or misplace. My final thoughts about the Apple Pencil is that it is a bad idea and goes against what Apple wants. I personally am an Android user, so I do have a bias towards Apple products, but looking at what this product does and the features it has, I don’t think it will be as useful as some people hope it will be. The product does not do anything outstanding or special that a person could not do before this product came out. The first group of people to try this product I feel will be disappointed.
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