Comment by quanticle
6 years ago
That's very interesting! My only experience with a pen UI is from using the iPad with an Apple Pencil, which doesn't seem to work the same way. As far as I could tell, the Pencil works like a very precise finger. It's great for writing, but I didn't notice any further enhancements beyond that. Of course, it might just have been that the app I was testing it with (Microsoft OneNote) didn't fully support the Pencil at that time.
On a Windows 2-in-1 it works more like a mouse with pressure sensitivity. It maintains its separate pointer (which is only shown when the pen is near the screen), so apps that aren't designed around a pen just behave as if you worked with a regular mouse.