There seem to be two different kinds of tech journalist, the kind that understands Apple, and, by extension, how hard certain things are to do, and the kind that doesn&#x27;t. The latter will make statements like &quot;But besides this latency improvement, Apple&#x27;s Pencil itself doesn’t actually offer any noticeable drawing features that FiftyThree’s Pencil doesn’t.&quot;<p>Such a ridiculous statement. Zero pen latency is something <i>nobody else in the history of general purpose tablet computers has ever been able to accomplish</i>. Apple managed to do it. It&#x27;s a staggeringly hard thing to do, but just like everything else Apple accomplishes, they make it look so easy that journalists are all like, &quot;so what?&quot;<p>You can make fun of Ive&#x27;s breathless self-pimping all you want, but at the end of the day, Apple does the things nobody else has the stones to even try.