I literally pick it up tomorrow from Best Buy. I just recently bought the new 2019 16" MacBook Pro, and as someone who has never owned a MacBook, I was wondering if the community could help me with some questions about the trackpad. While Steve Jobs wanted us to use our fingers in lieu of a stylus, if Apple Pencil brings in additional functionality of being a joystick, an air mouse and more - he would not be disappointed, as again Apple would have brought in a product that did more than what it was meant to.So here is the dilemma. The thing about patents is that companies do acquire them quite often for their newly developed technology but there is no guarantee that any of it will ever come in the market.Īpple would surely love to make better the lives of its users by bringing this technology they recently patented out to the market in their devices. What it also enables the company to do is make sure that no one else uses their technology, keeping it safe and secure for them to benefit from their hard work. When can the newly patented technology be expected in the market?Ī patent enables a company to secure their technology and brand it under their name. Most text in the patent filing focuses on use of a stylus with a ‘touch screen display’, which we assume to be the iPad, however, there are also drawings in the patent filing that show what appears to be a Trackpad and a Mac that the stylus is being used with. The patent was reportedly filed back in 2014, back when the Apple Pencil was only called a ‘stylus’, however it was published in May this year. With this new patent, the Trackpad would act like a design pad, enabling users to use the stylus to trace their creations, convert them into digital representations of their vision on the Mac without having to use tablet for the same. While this new feature would certainly work towards enhancing the user experience in general, it will be a boon for the designers who rely upon a stylus and the Apple Trackpad to sketch in popular design applications, like Adobe Illustrator and should also capture the attention of the gaming community. Who does this new feature really work for? The patent is about making the current version of the Apple Pencil more sophisticated. The patent would also enable the Apple Pencil to detect lateral movement (in three dimensions), rotational movement, and orientation. Inertial sensor input may be gathered when operating the stylus in one or more input modes as an air mouse mode, a rotational controller mode, a joystick mode, and/or other inertial sensor input modes. The patent also serves to describe how the Apple Pencil could use a three or six-axis inertial sensor to act as a more general input device, including a joystick and an air mouse. This patent would enable the Apple Pencil to work with Mac Trackpad along with the two iPad Pro models.
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