[HN Gopher] The Suppliers Behind the Apple Pencil Pro
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       The Suppliers Behind the Apple Pencil Pro
        
       Author : o4c
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-10-25 05:14 UTC (7 days ago)
        
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       | WillAdams wrote:
       | I still wish that Apple had just licensed Wacom EMR --- as it is,
       | I have to use a Wacom One w/ my MacBook so that it will fit in w/
       | my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, Book 3 Pro 360, and Kindle Scribe
       | (all of which use the same Wacom EMR stylus technology).
        
       | not4uffin wrote:
       | I somehow forgot that the Apple Pencil Pro was a real product.
       | 
       | At first, I thought this story was satire/fake.
        
       | RicoElectrico wrote:
       | Collaboration fuels innovation: Apple's reliance on specialized
       | third-party suppliers, such as TSMC and Bosch, enables it to
       | focus on refining design and user experience while leveraging the
       | technical expertise and R&D of its partners for advanced
       | components.         Outsourcing is a strategic necessity: The
       | complexity and cost of producing certain components, such as
       | chips and sensors, make it impractical for Apple to develop
       | everything in-house. By outsourcing, Apple taps into specialized
       | knowledge while staying competitive.         Suppliers are key to
       | Apple's success: Companies like SiTime and Texas Instruments
       | provide essential components that allow the Apple Pencil Pro to
       | deliver high performance, showcasing the importance of Apple's
       | global network of partners.
       | 
       | Excuse me, this is how almost every high tech company works?
       | Feels like an LLM wrote it, especially considering how empty it
       | is, reiterating the same thing 3 times with different buzzwords.
        
         | RicoElectrico wrote:
         | At the time, Intel believed the mobile phone processor market
         | was too small to justify the immense R&D investment required to
         | deliver on Apple's request. Designing chips is an incredibly
         | costly endeavor, and Intel assumed that the volumes wouldn't be
         | large enough to cover those costs. In hindsight, this decision
         | would go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in
         | business history. Otellini later admitted that Intel had
         | drastically miscalculated, underestimating potential demand by
         | 100x.
         | 
         | Admittedly this one is funny given the "Intel lifecycle" as my
         | colleagues who are Intel alumni put it: acquire a company for a
         | mountain of cash (much more than it'd cost to develop a
         | "simple" SoC back in 2000s) only to fumble its potential. And
         | the current CEO might be continuing this lunacy if rumors about
         | AI startup acquisition are true.
        
       | Mistletoe wrote:
       | Apple Pencil Pro sounds like an SNL skit roasting Apple.
       | 
       | > Apple Pencil Pro adds even more magical capabilities to help
       | bring your ideas to life. New advanced features make marking up,
       | taking notes, and creating a masterpiece more intuitive than
       | ever.
        
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