I watched the keynote quite a few times, I knew how many sensors and delicate mechanisms must have been royally messed up. All the way to the side, just slightly touching the outer rim.Įven if I could bend it back, I knew there was no way it would be right after that, not with how complicated and delicate the sensors are in the Pencil. I tried to screw it back on, but it turned infinitely in a way that made me realize it wasn't spinning in a circle, it was spinning in a oval like a car tire with a rim that was bent.I pulled off the nib, and the gold rod was bent. I unlocked the Pro, retrieve my pencil and.wait what? Why is the nib loose?. So I was smart, I put it in my shirt pocket.Īnd off I went. I went to put it in my pants pocket for its maiden voyage out of the house but I paused, realizing that might not be a good idea, fearing it would get damaged when I sat down in the car. I grabbed the iPad in my hand and picked up the pencil. And I brought the pencil along to make precision adjustments a little easier. I brought my iPad Pro to work today to design some flyers in Pages. I never dropped it, or even unnecessarily rolled it. After the debacle I went through to get it, just like all of you, I was extremely careful with it. I used it for everything from drawing to general stylus duty for browsing. 8 glorious days of using my apple pencil. But I didn't even care, I finally had a Pencil. I drove home in 2 hours worth of prime rush hour traffic that had built up by then. It was the first day of major in store availability, the first major shipment, and I knew there'd be others along shortly looking for pencil's, and I didn't want to take the opportunity I had away from anybody else over my own paranoia that something might happen to one.Īnd so I proceeded to the closest Apple Store Employee, happily clutching my Apple Pencil, and asked quite triumphantly "Jesus ******* ******, where can I pay for this?!?" The employee seemed confused, probably thinking I was angry, when in all reality, I was just overjoyed to finally have one in my hand after hours and days of searching. I paused for a moment, wondering if I should buy two in case something happened to one or I lost one, but decided against it so that other people like me would have an equal chance to buy one. Despite it being far from my local store, I dutifully rushed out, drove an hour to the store and bought one of the three they had left on display. I got home from work at 5, and after checking the stock thread on my breaks, I learned the Apple Store in Short Hills Mall in NJ might have some thanks to a very kind poster on that same thread. But it was all in vain, so I resigned myself to refreshing Best Buy's page frequently and feverishly checking the "Share the results of your retail store Apple Pencil stock check" thread on this very forum.īefore I knew it, it was Tuesday the 17th. So I waited and tried each day after, Thursday the 12th, Friday the 13th, and even Saturday the 14th. I tried countless other stores in New Jersey, but ran into the same roadblock we all ran into here. When I got there, I tried to get an Apple Pencil, but quickly realized the demand was high as the people in the pickup line before and after me all wanted one as well, which quickly turned into the realization that there didn't seem to be any in the United States at all (well okay, it turned out to be very very very few) They had just sold out of the configuration I wanted at my local store in New Jersey, despite arriving 10 minutes after store opening, so I gladly opted for store pickup from the only location that still had any left.5th Avenue in Manhattan. I picked up my iPad Pro on launch day, Wednesday November 11th like a lot of you here. Have a seat, and allow me to tell you a story of hope, joy, and hope lost.
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