[NTLK] iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

[Jake Bordens]

I ordered at 3am EST on Wednesday.   For some reason, my local Apple store showed "available today" for both the pencil and the iPad. I had heard that the pencils would be hard to come by, so I quickly placed my order. When I went to pick up the iPad later that day, the store told me they didn't receive any Pencils. I was understandably disappointed. 

That night I got a call from an Apple rep appologizing for an error. She said it would arrive by the end of the week. 18 hours later, the pencil was ready for pickup. I was very surprised but I'm not complaining.

I was also surprised that Apple would call about a botched availability estimate. Maybe they made good on an error.  Maybe I was just lucky to get an order in early.

Einstein performance is pretty awesome.  Audio glitches are still a problem.  Need to look at the Pencil API to filter stray touches.

Sent from my iPad Pro

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 20:39, Steven Frank <stevenf at panic.com> wrote:
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> 1. That's awesome.
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> 2. How did you manage to get an Apple Pencil when they're backordered 4-5 weeks?  :)
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> Steven
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>> On Nov 12, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Jake Bordens <jake at allaboutjake.com> wrote:
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>> In case anyone 15 interested:
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>> https://twitter.com/AllAboutJake/status/664975401475772416
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>> and
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>> https://twitter.com/AllAboutJake/status/664708492226404353
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>> It isn't perfect but it largely works without any special changes to Einstein. Maybe a few tweaks are needed to improve palm rejection.
>> 
>> Jake
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>> Sent from my iPad Pro
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