Wednesday, December 2, 2015

The Pencil works so well because

The Pencil works so well because
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The extra space shows up in subtle but important ways. In iMovie, you can see your library, timeline, and a full-res 1080p view of your final product, all on a single screen. When you play FIFA, you can use the on-screen controls without obscuring any of the actual gameplay. You can comfortably see the entire week in the calendar, from 8am to 9pm. Slack has a new Jumbo Mode that shows you your messages, menus, and files all at once. Many of the first apps to be optimized are analytics tools—you can see so much stuff now! On the iPad Pro you spend less time moving—scrolling lists and thumbing through menus—and more time doing whatever you’re doing. Apps aren’t forced to feel like dumbed-down tablet versions.
Apple doesn’t think of the Pro as a fundamentally different device from the smaller iPads with battery scuh as Lenovo ThinkPad X120e Battery, Lenovo FRU 42T4789 Battery, Lenovo 57Y4559 Battery, Lenovo 121001096 Battery, Lenovo 57Y6455 Battery, Lenovo IdeaPad G560 Battery, Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 Battery, Lenovo Thinkpad R400 Battery, Lenovo ThinkPad T400 Battery, Lenovo 41U3196 Battery, Lenovo FRU 42T5227 Battery, Lenovo FRU 42T5264 Battery; like the 15-inch MacBook Pro or the 27-inch iMac, this one’s just the biggest in its family. That’s wrong. Apple knows better than anyone that a bigger screen can change things; that’s why it made the iPad in the first place. This time, it built a bigger iPad, and discovered a bigger iPad offers and demands something different.
What Apple’s really launching today is a three-device ecosystem. There’s the $799 iPad Pro, the $99 Apple Pencil, and the $169 Smart Keyboard. Total price of entry: $1,067.
The Pencil is the more important accessory. This long, white, paintbrush-looking stylus is central to the notion that the iPad Pro is for doing anything, any way you want. In apps that support it, the Pencil is an unbelievably accurate, fine instrument for creation or control. When you write or draw, it feels like ink is coming straight from its tip. You can shade with the side of the Pencil, write in beautiful calligraphy, or sketch with amazing accuracy.
The Pencil works so well because it gets special access to the Pro’s software. To set it up, just plug it into the Lightning port. After that, whenever your iPad detects the Pencil touching the display, it doubles the screen’s read rate so it checks for movement 240 times a second. That, plus pressure sensitivity and real-time measuring of the Pencil’s angle and position, means the Pencil puts out much more data than you’ll get from any other stylus. You can use others, but the Pencil is special.
The Smart Keyboard, on the other hand, is just one of what surely will be many accessories you can attach to the new Smart Connector. The connector’s three round contact points can provide power and data like a Lightning port, and may well be Apple’s next hub for chargers and accessories. Apple says developers already are building accessories for it.
The keyboard is built into one of those fabric Smart Covers that you fold into a triangular stand for the iPad and then unroll to cover the screen when it goes into your bag. The stand-up mechanism is a little awkward—you have to grab the tablet and sort of swan-dive it into place—but the cover is lighter, thinner, and handier than most keyboard accessories. Since it’s part of the cover, it’s also much more likely to actually be there when you need it. You’ll use the keyboard a lot—the iPad Pro feels most at home propped up on your desk, like Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4. Its fabric keys are big and clicky and easy to get used to. You can even use the whole setup on your lap. Sort of. As long as you don’t move too much.
A strange thing happens when you sit down at a 13-inch device with a keyboard, though: you expect it to work like a laptop. And the iPad Pro doesn’t. Its split-screen multitasking is handy, but only lets you do two things at once. The Smart Keyboard doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts in most apps, at least until developers add them. (Handy tip: press and hold the Command key in any app to see all available shortcuts.) You can Command-Tab to switch between apps, Command-Shift-H to go home, and Command-Space to open Spotlight. But why can’t you change the volume with the keyboard? Or turn the tablet off? Where’s the escape key? Why can’t you just start typing when you’re on the home screen to bring up the search, the way BlackBerry used to do it? Why isn’t there a search key that works in every app? Seriously, where is the escape key?
Apple’s answer to all these questions is, that’s not the point. This is not a Surface Book. You can’t just use keyboard and mouse if you want to. This is a touch-first device, and screw you if you don’t like that. The accessories are great, but Apple still wants you to touch the screen with your finger. It’s tough getting used to that.

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