The $99 Apple Pencil only works with the iPad Pro and nothing else

Apple introduced a giant 12.9-inch iPad Pro on Wednesday and along with it the Apple Pencil, the company's reinvention of the stylus.

Not only is it $99 (the Surface Pro 3's Digital Pen is half as much at $50), but it only works with the iPad Pro, Mashable has confirmed.

Despite the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus having a pressure-sensitive display layer to enable 3D Touch, the pricey stylus won't work with them or any iOS device that isn't the iPad Pro.

For starters, the Apple Pencil needs to be paired with the iPad Pro via BluetoothMashable Senior Tech Correspondent Christina Warren, who is reporting from the event, says the tip of the Apple Pencil is plastic and houses the sensors. It's not capacitive, so it won't work as a regular stylus on other iOS devices. Read more...