Apple may have big plans for its Pencil stylus and Macs, new patent reveals

Times have most definitely changed.

Steve Jobs famously said: "If you see a stylus, they blew it."

With the release of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil last year, Apple walked back on its stance on the stylus. A new patent filed in 2014, but only made public recently (via Patently Apple), suggests Apple may have bigger plans for the Apple Pencil that will make it work with Macs.

According to patent 9,400,570 published by the USPTO, Apple has been granted a patent for a stylus with "force sensors" located on both ends of the device, along with an "inertial sensor," which could allow it to switch between several different modes. Read more...