The form of the pencil was surprising to me for a couple of reasons. With the products like the Wacom stylus, 53 Pencil, and Adobe Ink I’d become accustomed to styli being closer to the diameter of a sharpie or design marker than that of a pencil. It’s understandable that Apple would choose a pencil form factor over those, but it’s a lot more literal than I would have expected, too. The length and angle of the taper at the tip looks really close to that of your typical #2, not to mention the location of the metal ring. None of this is bad by any means, just not what would have come to mind if someone told me a week ago that they were releasing a stylus.