Ever tried to get a wacom cintiq stylus replaced? They cost a Bomb, too. Apple is trying to market this this thing to entry level professionals such as graphic design or illustration students, that don't have the 2k to get an actual wacom cintiq, but might get the 1k to get this toghether.
Not defending Apple, I think their pricing policy is just as stupid as wacoms, but they're in good company pricing-wise.

getting tired of apple's shit

I find their Stylus pretty comfortable to draw with but I guess that's down to taste. As for the cintiq I can only say, thank god it's big! Pixel desity just cannot keep up with an actual piece of papers precision, so drawing on a smaller tablet you constantly have to zoom in and out to get the level of detail you want. The downside to that is that you easily loose track of the complete picture though, so it's nicer to have a bigger screen. Would I like them to be lighter and thinner though? Hell Yes!

Cause they need more hookers

Hardly clever but maybe ironic?

Here is one that is actually clever, considering it was drawn in 2012.

It seems to me some people are turning off their brains and posting something stupid just to laugh at their failed attempts of joking.

The picture isn't clever or ironic. The styluses of the pre-iPhone era are dead and burried. They were used to do the simplest interaction, as smiple as clicking on an icon. No one needs a stylus to do that anymore. The new stylus is designed to be used inside apps for productivity purposes, designed to do something completely different than the stylus Steve was talking about.

Let's ignore the impressive Force-Touch technology that effectively introduced a right click equivalent to smartphones, ignore the Touch ID the competition spent years trying to catch up to, ignore the leading mobile processors Apple has been pumping out year after year, ignore Siri. All technologies Apple paved the way for them to become mainstream AFTER they iPhone was introduced. Ignore it all and dig something old Steve said when he was introducing a device with a capacitive touchscreen and its complimentary OS that changed the world and killed the concept of the stylus on a phone for good! All in the name of making fun of the new Apple stylus that has nothing to do with the rudimentary ones. Ironic indeed 

Too bad the surface pen and the keyboard cover came attached to horrible devices. One of them is completely dead and the other one only got "good enough" with its third iteration. Let's not pretend people worried about having to use a stylus on their Surface, that was the least of our concerns. We were too busy wondering "WTF is a windows RT?", we are actually still wondering about that

On a more serious note, with Skylake being officialy rolled out, the Surface Pro 4 may finally be a device I actually want.

Regarding the iPad, I am still disappointed with iOS9 on the iPad. It needs to do more , it needs to completely cut the cord with the PC or the Mac. Smart keyboard cover is also disappointing to say the least. iOSX may change my mind, but for now, iPad isn't doing enough.

what are you talking about? Do you even know the range of Products Wacom makes? The Cheapest Cintiq screen is 13,3 inch.. Most drawing pads they make have an A5 size.. mine is A4 which is 21x29 cm.. Way less then 12 inch.. We Digital drawers don't need a big pad.. Their Cintiq Tablets are 13,3 inch which is a bit bigger than the iPad Pro and thats the only size their tablets have.. Its weights 1.7 kg.. And the Cheapest one is 1400 euros.. I almost have no doubt that the 800 dollar, .7kg 12.9 inch iPad Pro  with the 99 dollar Pencil  will be the better product for professionals.. Adobe is making sure you can run heavy files in Photoshop on it.. Everyone is talking about it Among my Creative friends.. I like Wacom.. I have like 600 euro's worth of stuff on my desk and 300 euro's at home.. But if Apple delivers..its an iPad Pro and Pencil for my christmas bonus..

Edit- previews looking good http://youtu.be/Ak7pXLA2tm0

If it was like 20 bucks then it wouldn't of became a meme.

They just killed their concept, awesome... Just awesome.

That ^^

A lot of people here are commenting without knowing exactly what they are talking about.
While this is not super innovative in anyway, this is not just a simple stylus, it supports tilt, pressure etc... And if you look at the watcom ones they are in that range maybe 10$ less. Which does not make the Apple one a so overpriced one.

Overall the iPad Pro + this pencil can actually be even better than some drawing tablet out there (I have a a good watcom one).

Do not just throw away "Apple is selling a $99 stylus" without really understanding what piece of technology it is to warrent at least 80% of this price (the other 20% being definitly the Apple logo on it