Calyo Delphi on Nostr: (Not so) Friendly reminder that the sole reason you have to charge your Apple Pencil ...
(Not so) Friendly reminder that the sole reason you have to charge your Apple Pencil and/or Huion pens or any other digitizer pen, and eventually have to replace the pen or its battery, is Wacom.
Wacom's wireless, batteryless digitizer pen tech is patented and they flat-out refuse to license it, thereby forcing the entire rest of the market to be inferior to them on that one crucial QoL point for many artists.
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2024-11-27 12:44:58Event JSON
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