&gt; Apple does the things nobody else has the stones to even try<p>Well now, Microsoft&#x27;s been aggressively pushing the latency limits for a while now.  We don&#x27;t yet know if Apple surpassed them.  Regardless, it wouldn&#x27;t be because Apple had the stones.<p>FiftyThree built a tool around the limitations of the current ipads.  That said, FiftyThree&#x27;s pencil (which I own) isn&#x27;t very good.  They get a lot of mileage from fancy packaging and self-important blog posts, but I&#x27;ve had better experience with other vendors&#x27; pens on ipad.