Maybe I’m missing something, but I feel like I’m fighting against the Apple Pencil every single day. It feels like it was designed by competing groups with goals that didn’t quite align.
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Maybe I’m missing something, but I feel like I’m fighting against the Apple Pencil every single day. It feels like it was designed by competing groups with goals that didn’t quite align.
It’s okay an a mouse replacement, until the iPad thinks you’re trying to write.
It’s great for drawing and pretty good for writing, as long as you’re okay with your own handwriting.
Scribble-to-text is abysmally bad if you’re trying to write algebra equations. What’s worse is that the keyboard has no way to denote superscripts or subscripts in some note-taking apps, so you have to manually fight a formatting menu system that may or may not be greyed out until you fiddle with the right thing.
Text selection and editing is horrible. Who the fuck designed this?
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Oh yeah! Also: trying to flip the pencil over to use an eraser doesn’t work. You have to select an eraser first.
What the fuck? My shitty Wacom Bamboo tablet from ten years ago can do that!
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@[email protected] Apple is great if you're doing one of the limited things they designed their shit for. If you're outside their intended use case, fuck you.
I get why some people like them, but those of us used to customizing our shit (especially Linux users) just want to throw the whole company into the Pacific Ocean. -
@deathkitten it’s honestly confounding. Linux has a bunch of its own weird quirks and difficult problems, but at least I feel comfortable with handling those. Because, at the end of the day, there are ways to adjust everything.
With a trillion-dollar tech company, I feel like there should be no excuse. Especially when that company popularized a user-first design philosophy.