Can someone please make it so that if you turn the "Pencil" upside down it acts as an eraser, like a real pencil would?
Even though I tend to like Apple gear: if there is such a patent in the way I'm sure they'll add this once the patent expires, and call it a revolutionary development.
I think it's pretty clear by now that the patent system rarely works that way in practice, though that is the intent.
And I was merely joking that whatever apple announces has to be "revolutionary" or "groundbreaking" or "jaw-dropping". Whatever the quality of the product (and for their hardware, it's typically high), the company culture is to staple a bunch of superlatives onto the headlines.
(BTW I don't know what “selling or renting first-party tools is a trick" means)
To me this is an example of skeuomorphism that forces an older experience into the digital one.
This is muscle memory that's built into every person who's taught to write. You should reuse that muscle memory if you can to make writing flow easier.
Sure if you were teaching people to write exclusively on these devices then coming up with something new would make sense but since we all go back and forth using the real world method makes the most sense.
It makes intuitive sense regardless of existing tool - write on one end, reverse to erase.