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iPad Pro + Apple Pencil - finally an art tablet.
10 years ago
I'm super excited for the iPad Pro. iOS has a lock on the best hobbyist art apps (Procreate and Brushes, just to name a few) despite being limited to chunky, laggy styli. Having a stylus with tilt support (your only other option is the chunky $1,300.00 Wacom Cintiq Companion, which reportedly has a lifespan of a Google face computer) and a high quality display for under $1,000.00 is pretty much unheard of.
My current tool of choice has been the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, which is a terrible tablet in every sense of the word (it's slow, crashes often, has shit battery life, crap build quality, and a nasty screen.) That said, it's probably the best option I've encountered for casual sketching.
The Surface came really close to getting it right on a hardware side, but totally bombed it on the software and UI front. To this day I it's a mystery how Windows 8 ever made it out the door (two control panels? Wtf.) It's an excellent case study as to how you can have hardware that's ahead of the curve and make it undesirable with shitty software. Yes, you -can- run full Photoshop and Sketchbook on it. No, it's not a pleasant experience.
My current tool of choice has been the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, which is a terrible tablet in every sense of the word (it's slow, crashes often, has shit battery life, crap build quality, and a nasty screen.) That said, it's probably the best option I've encountered for casual sketching.
The Surface came really close to getting it right on a hardware side, but totally bombed it on the software and UI front. To this day I it's a mystery how Windows 8 ever made it out the door (two control panels? Wtf.) It's an excellent case study as to how you can have hardware that's ahead of the curve and make it undesirable with shitty software. Yes, you -can- run full Photoshop and Sketchbook on it. No, it's not a pleasant experience.
I'm very excited to see what can be done on an iPad Pro.
I NEED this.
Imo that could be done with pretty much every other manufacturer except apple (though even apple has been starting to go downhill in the past year or two). It's always been the same: amazing hardware and shit software with tons of bugs and ridiculous UI-designs that just makes you want to stab yourself in the heart.