NEW YORK, Nov 18 — Apple’s iconic designer Jony Ive shared some insights on Apple’s pricey new accessory: the Apple Pencil. Ive shared some interesting comments with Wallpaper Magazine and the Telegraph about the device.
Ive made it clear that the Pencil was not meant to become the primary input device, but to complement fingers.
“I think there’s a potential to confuse the role of the Pencil with the role of your finger in iOS,” he said and stated the Pencil was for making marks, while the finger was still the primary means of navigating the iOS interface.
As to the name, Ive said that Pencil was a better representation of its true function as opposed to naming it a pen or a stylus.
Pencil, to Ive, seemed more analogue, less about technology than the term “stylus”.
“For some people it will be a graphic instrument and to others it will be a fountain pen,” he said.
As to other styli, Ive said they were “pretty poor representation of the analogue world.”
The Apple Pencil and iPad Pro, he said, enabled things you couldn’t previously imagine in the analogue world.
As to his advice on new owners of the Pencil and iPad Pro?
“Just start drawing.”
