How good the stylus is will depend on the software applications that support it. The Apple Pencil has features such as pressure and tilt sensitivity, and supposedly palm rejection as mentioned by Mashable correspondent Lance Ulanoff. Is Apple Pencil going to be a good stylus? The 12.9-inch iPad Pro has 78% more surface area than the 9.7-inch model. Even when drawing on iPad Air's 9.7-inch screen, I still feel a bit constrained by the size. What's more enticing is you'll be drawing on a larger screen which will feels less constraining. Retina 2732x2048 resolutionĭrawings are going to be sharp. You'll not be holding this in the hand to draw without some form of good support.

Photoshop (at least not directly - read further below). The iPad runs on iOS which means you still won't be able to use the full version of desktop software, e.g. Some part of me actually wished that it would run Mac OS. Here are some of my thoughts on the announcement from the perspective of an artist. And they also released a stylus called the Apple Pencil specifically for the iPad Pro. Oh yeah, Apple just released the biggest iPad ever, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

Bamboo paper apple pencil