It’s also shorter, lousy under pressure, and needs a dongle
Apple has found another reason to embrace USB-C – it’s allowed the iCompany to make a cheaper digital pencil.
Doodling on iPad screens is something Apple thinks we should all be doing, so it previously produced two generations of stylus. The first featured Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector hidden under a removable cap. Charging the Pencil required either an adapter for a Lightning cable, or for the Pencil to be poked into an iPad. The latter was an ungainly and precarious arrangement that saw the Pencil protrude while connected. Your correspondent tried it and feared the Pencil, or my iPad, would be damaged.
The gen-2 Apple Pencil charged wirelessly when nestled onto a special magnetized zone on iPads.
