Apple’s new Pencil Pro is nice, but it falls short of the iPad’s true promise
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The new Apple Pencil 3 has features that will make artists happy, but without a more tactile iPad, it will never be a true pen-and-paper replacement.
Today Apple announced an update to the Apple Pencil—the first in nearly six years. The Apple Pencil Pro (available for $129 today) is cool, and artists will love its updated features. But it fails to fulfill the eternally elusive iPad promise of become a truly satisfying drawing and painting simulator.