Apple has filed for a new patent that, if successful, will tilt the tablet market even more in its favor.
Android tablet market it takes time in free fall. It’s a fact. There’s no denying that, across the street, Apple has done things much better and has managed to make their iPads the option that best complements software and hardware. In fact, more than half of the tablets in the world are iPads.
It’s true that Samsung and its Galaxy Tab S8 and S8+ have tried to keep Android tablets afloat as an option for those looking for a lightweight and powerful device to work with, but despite the efforts of Koreans to bring their tablets to a point of relevance there are no fruits yet that justify the purchase of an Android tablet. And what’s worse, Apple may be in the process of certifying his death.
An Apple Pencil with a camera: the latest Apple patent
just as we can leer en Apple patentthose of Cupertino have registered a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in which we can see the incorporation of cameras to your particular stylus. It is true that brands register many patents, but this movement is very interesting for what it means.
According to what can be seen in the images of the patent and according to the source, the company intends to equip its Apple Pencil with a feature oriented above all to designers and illustrators. The idea behind it is that these cameras, with the help of software, can identify the color and texture of any surface.
Patent image of the new Apple Pencil with camera
In short, it is about using the stylus as if it were the photoshop swatch pickeror any other image editing tool. Let’s say you want to capture the texture of a wall or the grain of a wood. With the help of Apple Pencil it will be much easier to extract it and pass it to a drawingrather than cloning it with a design tool.
From the source it is commented that the sensor could be accompanied by a adjustable spectrum light emitterso as to achieve better color detection in different situations.
How does this affect Android tablets?
It was already established at the beginning of the article that android tablets they don’t work in the market and that fail to attract the interest of users. What’s the problem? Well, first of all, no manufacturer (except Samsung, according to what we have seen) cares optimize your devices so that they can be part of a complete ecosystem.
is the happy convergence issue. Yes, there are solutions to connect an Android to Windows and work with it remotely, but Apple managed to do it well enough to easily transfer files from a Mac to an iPad and edit them on the go, integrating macOS, iPadOS and iCloud into one ecosystem very well woven.
iPads are at the top of tablets today.
For now it seems that the manufacturers of Android they have not been as successful in the convergence section. On the other hand, it is also unknown how to make Android tablets something unique. Apple has managed to give iPads their own entity by transforming them into efficient work and creation tools when you don’t have a computer nearby.
If the patent for this new Apple Pencil thrives and develops, it could be the swipe that sends Android tablets to the canvas. They will probably never get up again. Creators and designers have had a favorite platform for years, and as of now, it’s very hard to get them out of there easily.
