Editing The Pen Addict 184/transcript (section)

== Apple Pencil Accessories ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure, sure, sure. But just in general, it's not loose.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, no, it's perfectly fixed in there. The other issue with the pen loop is if you pull it out so the magnetic cap at the end is going to be going through the pen loop, the cap will come off.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay, sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Whilst going through.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, one direction only.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's not hard to work out, I remember. I've also seen some sleeves that have integrated pen loops. So Hardgraft are making one and someone sent me one by a company called Bird and Bell. They're both made out of felt.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Hardgraft one has a little loop on the side that you can put the pencil on and the Bird and Bell one has a little pocket. It has two pockets, one for the pencil and one for like maybe a little notebook or something or any other little thing you want to keep in there. You look like you could maybe fit a pen and the Apple pencil in the Bird and Bell case. Both of these are sleeves. I'm not too interested in sleeves. In all honesty, I want a case which has an integrated stand in it and has the magnets in it. You know, that's the kind of solution I'm looking for. And I've seen a couple of these types of things on Amazon that people have made, but I'm not too keen on the look of them. So I'm keeping my eye out for this, but I decided that I kind of wanted to mention these things. And I'd considered maybe writing something else for you when I get more stuff in, if I keep thinking or if anyone keeps suggesting little things for me to try out. But that's just a couple of things that I noticed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think it would be good because what we learned from your first post is this is not a perspective that other people were covering as far as the Apple pencil goes. And it's funny to see now the considerations for a writing utensil in different, you know, carrying formats, you know, like the hard graph, like these cases that you were showing, right? It's like what we look for in a notebook cover, you know, or a folio, something like that. And they're, you know, trying to solve these problems, you know, now for the technological devices like iPads and Apple pencils. I think it's pretty funny.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, no doubt. And also like, you know, saying about that post, we haven't recorded since then. That did quite well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh my God. That post. So Myke Hurley is a famous podcaster, but he's also a famous writer now. His post on the Apple pencil review on the pen addict was on tech meme, was on the loop. It was, it was everywhere. It, you, you knocked that one out of the park and I appreciate you letting me publish that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think one of my favorites though was Steven Sanofsky tweeted it. And if you don't know who he is, he was kind of responsible for the design and implementation of Windows 8. He ran the Windows team. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You had to explain this to me. You were like, oh my God, look at this. And I'm like, I have no idea who that is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Most people that I sent that link to didn't know who he was. And then I would explain it. Like even like people that I would have expected to know, because it's just like, he got fired by Microsoft because Windows 8 was hated by so many people because it was so different. But, but that's not what I am fussed about, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But yeah, it was super cool. Well, because it wasn't in his bio, so I couldn't figure out who he was.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. He works at, he's a venture capitalist now. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's great. But the, the article was universally loved and I appreciate you doing that. And anything you want to, you know, do any continuation on accessories for, for the accessory, you know, I think would do really well as well because you, you bring, definitely bring a different perspective into that type of product for, for basically other, you know, technology nerds that are, are not into like, you know, what should a pencil feel like kind of thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. What, what I kept seeing, uh, kind of around the web as like a headline of people linking to it was like the pen guy reviews the pencil.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was over and over. It was, it was some, some form of that, of that comment. And, um, and they were all positive too, which was very odd, you know, no one like, you know, there was, there was no nastiness going around, which was a good thing. Not that you would expect that, but I'm just saying, you know, sometimes you get the snarky comments. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it was good all around good. And, uh, yeah, the pen addict had like double traffic, uh, like two days in a row from that, um, just from that. So, uh, you're the, you're the man.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Woohoo.