Editing The Pen Addict 183/transcript (section)

== Apple Product ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that goes about saying. I mean, so this is one of the best 1.0 products that I've used from Apple in a long time, right? Because they nailed it. Like, so the actual hardware of the pencil, there are some things that I don't think that they did as good as they could have done. But in all honesty, it's not about this thing. It's about what this thing does. That's the important part of this. So like, you know, I talk about this in the review, like it's a cylinder. It's a perfect cylinder of plastic, which some people said to me they think is not very nice to hold. I think it is fantastic. I can grip it really, really well in my hands. It's weighted fantastically. It's got a real great weight to it. It is substantial. Okay. It's not just a piece of plastic. Yeah. Okay. It's heavy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. That's good. Yeah. I would prefer that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. This thing may as well be made of metal, right? It looks like that. It actually isn't, it doesn't feel massively different to my roturing in weight. Interesting. I want to see if I can find out what the weight is of it now, actually. See if I can Google that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because I think the roturing is a good feel because it looks, it honestly looks heavier than it really is, but it's like just the right weight and balance.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So the whole thing is balanced really well in it. They've got weights in it and these weights are magnetic. So you can kind of like rest it on your, the magnets in the iPad, you know, because they're the magnetic cover. So you can kind of rest it there. It gives it a good place to rest because there's nowhere to store it. Yeah. Can't store it anywhere, which is frustrating. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But the other part of it is that it is weighted so it doesn't roll away. So if you place it down, it kind of just like rocks and then finds its place and it stops. Right. And everybody that I know, you know, that have one of these was writing about that and saying was how awesome it was. And there was like, I saw some videos of like people like pushing it a little bit and then it would like rock back into place. But I immediately saw a different side of this, which is while that's good, people don't treat this product the way that I treat it. Like I'm throwing this thing around.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like I'm writing with it and I'm letting it drop. Right. Because that's what I do. But when you do that, the weights inside kind of propel the thing forward. Right. It makes it roll around faster. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've got some pins. I've got some pins like that. If you put it down and they get a little bit going, they get a life of their own and they're gone.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And it has actually rolled further and faster than if it would have had nothing in it at all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, you know, this is, these are nitpicks because of the type of person that I am. And I said in the article, like, I wish they would have put a clip on this and I'm keeping my eye out for a third party clip. Someone's going to make one. Although I could probably get something like a Fisher Spacebank clip and put it on. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That was about to come out of my mouth. I wonder what the diameter is and if you could adjust it into fitting that. I bet you could.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. But I want something that looks like it was made to go with it. Sure. You know, apparently there are already a bunch of kickstarters. The other thing is the way that this charges is very, very inelegant.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I've actually heard a couple of things about that and I was kind of cringing actually when I was hearing people talk about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So there is a little cap which is magnetic which comes off the end and it has a lightning port. But like, like the male part of the lightning connector. Right. So you can plug it into the bottom of your iPad and it will charge. Right? Yeah. Now,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' that gives me the willies like something fierce.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And my main issue with this is not so much that you have to do that but it's like it doesn't sit flush in there either. Right. Like a little bit of it sticks out. It's like, what are you doing? But when you use it you realize that this is actually the best possible way of charging this thing because when you're using it and you need to charge it you want to charge it quickly and so what you do is it's like dipping it in ink. Right? I think that's where I genuinely believe that's where some of the thinking behind this came from because you just stick it in the lightning port and after 15 seconds of charging it's ready for another 30 minutes of use.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, okay. Well, that's more that's reasonable. Yeah. I could see I could see you know plugging it into the to the iPad connector for that short of a period of time. Yeah, but if you're going on like 5-10 minutes then you're getting like really that's yeah, okay. That makes more sense. I didn't understand that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But like I was watching a video earlier and I realized it was 11% battery life so I plugged it in for like 20 or 30 minutes and it went up to like 80% from 10%. So it's still fine but like that so is that 15 seconds for 30 minutes you can just keep doing that as well. So like 15 seconds you do 30 minutes plug it back in 15 seconds 30 minutes and then also in the box they include a female to female lightning adapter. Yeah. So you can plug that into the thing and then plug a cable into the end of it if you want to charge it for a longer period of time and you don't want it sticking out of the iPad. So the thing is they didn't really do a good enough job with the marketing of it I don't think because you can charge it that way but you should only ever really be charging it for that period of time for quick use.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Okay. I'm with you there. Okay. That makes a lot more sense.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So that it works really well for that. I mean look fundamentally I am super impressed with this project with this product. I love actually using iOS with a pen input. Like I use I navigate iOS sometimes now with the pen in hand so like I'm you know I've just opened up Tweetbot and I can scroll lists with using the pen tip. It's way easier and more precise to select text. Right. Because you've got a real thin fine precise tip as opposed to your like fat fingers you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. I can see that for sure because I do that a lot actually and that's always a challenge.