@snazzyq that is nuts

This is why it needs the M4.

@snazzyq @HilliTech that’s one of those insanely cool things that make me want it even though I can’t, just can’t justify it.

Wow, that's undeniably gorgeous

@snazzyq this is fabulous

@snazzyq that’s bananas.

@snazzyq @CStamp I like that this video plays nicer in Mastodon than Threads. The Instagram designers should have their editors taken away.

Ok that is fucking crazy

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What’s 3D about it? Not a shadow, it’s the brush tip.

@snazzyq @imyke WHOA that is cool

@snazzyq this attention to detail and UX is why I like Apple products.

@snazzyq I might hate apple for being so locked down and shit but I really like the attention to detail they put into some things

@snazzyq If only they would spend that much energy on the functionality.

@snazzyq For all the posters who think this is fluff, or just a UI flex… it’s not. Imagine using this without it… how are you supposed to predict when your apple pencil is going to touch the screen? You can’t, but in real life, that shadow is an essential clue for knowing how far away your pencil is from touching the paper. It’s 100% functional.

It’s literally beautiful.

@snazzyq Custom cursors are cool.

@snazzyq that is pure genius

@snazzyq Clever! Though I'm surprised they went for skeuomorphism after they gave that up several years ago.

@snazzyq But whats special about it. Traditional drawing tools like a pencil on paper doesn't have this, but amazing art work is created otherwise. I guess if you are not artistically inclined its somewhat helpful?

@snazzyq 🤨🥱

@snazzyq @imyke That’s incredible. And yet 50% of the time CarPlay starts up it plays “A face I would sit on” from Deadpool because it’s the first song in my library. Still, after 6 years. 🤣 They do amazing things.

@snazzyq I didn't smile am I guilty for thinking real pen under a real light drops a real shadow on a real paper for much cheaper and less engineering cost and less environmental harms? I wish those shadow engineers just stayed at home at least not to increase the global warming.

@snazzyq Apple bringing the ‘whimsy’. Very cool

@snazzyq all I see is a waste of processing power and geeky gimmicks.

@snazzyq @joesteel wow!

@snazzyq your excitement is amazing!

@snazzyq Ok. That is kind of crazy. Only Apple would think of something like that. 😂

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Sometimes one gets the feeling that Steve’s spirit might still be around between those Apple devs … *sigh*

@snazzyq question is, does it write differently, when you twisted the nib upside-down, and it would be scratchier if it were real? @galileo

@snazzyq One of the coolest ideas! 🤯

@snazzyq as someone who did a lot of work writing software for Wacom tablets back in the 90s, that is a really clever use of the data you can get back from one of those pens. (Wacom could do all that except, I think, the roll angle). Lovely idea

@snazzyq I was expecting to not be particularly blown away. I was blown away. That's such an unnecessary but fun detail. Very Nintendo-like, actually.