The stylus I hated Jobs appeared on iPad Pro's "Pencil"

Along with the iPad Pro that will appear in November 2015, Apple has developed a pen-type input device "Apple PencilWe are planning to release the product. Behind the fact that the company, which is known to have been negative to pen type device · stylus, added Apple Pencil to its lineup, the creation of new added value which could not be achieved by conventional products is hidden It seems that it is being done.

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It can be said to be the predecessor of modern smartphonePDA(Portable information terminal) was used in the early 2000s, use the "stylus" which operates by tracing the screen, draws letters and pictures, or touches the screen with "nib's tip" instead of the fingertip I was able to see how to operate. Many people remember the image of "cutting edge" in the form of manipulating the screen with a stylus with the palm-sized PDA as one hand.

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However, when the first iPhone was announced at Apple 's new product event "Macworld" held in 2007, that situation will begin to change. The iPhone which can perform multi-touch operation and dramatically improved operability with the fingertip has become a terminal designed on the premise that it operates with fingers, and it is a point that it is possible to operate with no stylus It was a big selling point. At the time Steve Jobs keynote lecture, "One who wants a stylus!" And cut down and discarded the following one scene is too famous.

Steve Jobs: "Who wants a stylus?" - Apple - Steve Jobs at Macworld 2007 in San Francisco - YouTube


"Who wants a stylus!?" Jobs who advocates a strong stylus-free theory with a strong tone, saying "Oh!" I got it somewhere as soon as I got it. The presentation that made the debut of the iPhone spectacularly, which enables you to operate directly with your fingers as "having the best input device" after this, can also be said to be the origin of the spread of the iPhone / smartphone afterwards.


Mr. Jobs' remarks are thought to have aimed at emphasizing the advanced nature of the iPhone, but adding to the lineup of pen type input devices that had been denied by the strong expression to that line is very important for Apple It should not be an easy choice. It seems that the technology of terminals that continue to evolve is hidden behind the background to make "Pencil" appear until denying such a past.

The big difference between 2007 and 2015 is the structure of the technology used for touch operation. In the terminals around 2007, a method of using two membranes (films) called "resistive film method" was generally used to sense the touch of the finger. The resistance membrane system has characteristics that it is not suitable for detection of 1 point or more, but the iPhone that appeared in 2007Capacitance methodBy using the technology called, we realize a totally different operability than before.

In particular, the ability of "Multi-Touch" to detect multiple touches at the same time greatly improved the operability of smartphones. Now that you can operate any smartphone Pinch in / out with two fingers, rotate the screen, and many of the operations used in the game are realized by the multi-touch function, how much capacitance for the smartphone or tablet You should be able to feel that multi touch detection of the method is an important technology. With such excellent technology, Mr. Jobs broke off from the stylus and succeeded in giving the iPhone and iPad an intuitive operability with fingers. Although it is a capacitive type used now as it is commonplace, it is not an overstatement to say that it is the smartphone mainly for the iPhone that widespread this technology in the world.

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However, when you become the iPad Pro class with a huge screen of 12.9 inches you will need to adopt a different way of thinking. Compared to smartphones that are displayed in a relatively small area, iPad Pro, which has a larger screen than A5 size laptop PC, can create not only games and movies, but also create documents and attach external genuine keyboard cover "Smart Keyboard"It is said that if you use the screen you can also create documents without being occupied by the keyboard.

In addition, it is also considered to make use of large screens for graphic editing. In the graphic industry Wacom's pen tabDe facto standardIPad Pro is used in combination with the exclusively developed Apple Pencil, and unlike the pen tab (pen + tablet), "iPad Pro directly edits the graphic displayed on the tablet with a pen" It is considered to be useful as a device to make it possible. Apple Pencil is designed to reduce the latency to operation, and it can be used for advanced production operations such as changing the thickness of a line according to the pressure of a pen point and changing the shade of a line with the inclination of a pen It has practicality to endure. You can see that Apple Pencil is no longer the device you use to click the icon to open the mail inbox.


Although the trends of smartphones and tablets in the past few years were such as "big screen of smartphone · small tablet" Fabret "· smart watch · super large screen tablet" etc., Apple does not anticipate these flow, Always follow one step to two steps behind, and finally succeed in successfully tackling that merit. I am concerned about the future trend of the introduction of "Apple Pencil", a pen-type input device, which can also be called "crackdown".