"Yuck, who needs a stylus?": the Apple iPad Pro does and it's called the Apple Pencil
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Back in 2007, during the announcement of the original Apple iPhone, legendary Apple CEO Steve Jobs jokingly expressed his animosity towards styluses in general. "Yuck, who needs a stylus," he claimed. Well, guess what happened at Apple's 2015 September 9 event: Apple not only unveiled the largest iPad ever, the iPad Pro, it also revealed the Apple Pencil.
Just as its name suggests, it's a rechargeable stylus exclusively for the 12.9" iPad tablet. It has an embedded Lightning connector that allows you to directly connect it to the iPad Pro and charge it.
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Thanks to the Apple Pencil, adopters will be able to unleash a whole new level of functionalities. Naturally, drawing and writing will be among its staple features. There will be a couple of built-in iOS apps on the iPad Pro that will allow you to make use of the writing instrument. It will work with the revamped Notes app, as well as the built-in Mail, where users will be able to draw and mark up on any incoming attachment.
Other developers that will fully support the Apple Pencil are Microsoft's Office suite, as well as a few of Adobe's iPad-tailored apps that will be exclusively available on the iPad Pro and will ship in November.
The Apple Pencil will cost you $99.
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