The thing you fail to understand is evolution. Companies including Apple build upon other companies' ideas. Even prior to man there were monkies but they had more hair.
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The thing you fail to understand is evolution. Companies including Apple build upon other companies' ideas. Even prior to man there were monkies but they had more hair.
Who cares who came up with it first...but it is clear that the Galaxy Note is the inspiration of stylus input in CURRENT smartphones. There has been little traction for stylus input ever since Apple redefined the smartphone. I would like apple to offer pencil support as it would be beneficial to me.
I understand what evolution is. No, the Newton is not an evolution of the Etch a Sketch. Also, it's monkeys, not monkies.
Mock up?? I charge the pencil with my X all the time. No problem.
Sure. Why wouldn't they?
Although Google Glass was a really iffy product, the Hololens had some cool ideas behind it.
Not much difference in 33 years between 1960 Etch a Sketch and 1993 Newton (even Steve Jobs calls it a failure) but huge jump with 2011 Galaxy Note with fully working pen-to-text transcription which is lacking natively on latest iPad Pro.
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You do realise the GRiDPad was released in 1989 - Mahy years before the Newton. It featured a Stylus and had hand writing recognition.
There is a wire sticking out of that stylus.
That's what I've been saying here for years.
But I've been told I was wrong for years. Till now
Haha your ignorance is unmatched on this site. Right, a huge jump. So advanced that no one uses a stylus or buys a Note. The Note 9 will be a failure just like the Note 8.
Clues in the name, it's still a Stylus!
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It's comments like these that make you lose all credability and show your true colours.
People use a stylus and people buy notes. It's a fact. Saying that no-one does either is ridiculous.
It's way absurd to say Etch a Sketch invented the stylus.
The fact of the matter is, once Apple enables Apple Pencil support to iPhones, it'll diminish another "advantage" of the Note series over the iPHone.
Samsung used to say if you want big screen, check out the Galaxy over the iphone. Not anymore.
Samsung used to say if you want OLED, choose Galaxy over iPhone. Not anymore.
There's no doubt that Samsung creates nice hardware. If they spent all their energy and time on improving Tizen and pushing out great phones irregardless of Apple then I'd have more respect for them.
The fact of the matter is, once Apple enables Apple Pencil support to iPhones, it'll diminish another "advantage" of the Note series over the iPHone.
Samsung used to say if you want big screen, check out the Galaxy over the iphone. Not anymore.
Samsung used to say if you want OLED, choose Galaxy over iPhone. Not anymore.
There's no doubt that Samsung creates nice hardware. If they spent all their energy and time on improving Tizen and pushing out great phones irregardless of Apple then I'd have more respect for them.
The difference is Samsung can sell 10 million Notes in a quarter and is considered a HUGE SUCCESS, while if Apple sold under 40 Million units opening weekend all the fandroids scream about what a failure Apple is, and DOOMED to FAIL. The irony is endless here, Apples makes profits, Samsung gets the most sales from cheap smartphones to third world countries, not premium smartphones.
You do realize the GRiDPad was released in 1989 - Mahy years before the Newton. It featured a Stylus and had hand writing recognition.
Like I stated in another comment, there were much larger devices that could use styluses. The Newton made a device you could hold with one hand, a stylus in another and no tether.
Everyone knows that the GRIDPad was really just a ripoff of the Write-Top released in 1987 anyways.
The difference is Samsung can sell 10 million Notes in a quarter and is considered a HUGE SUCCESS, while if Apple sold under 40 Million units opening weekend all the fandroids scream about what a failure Apple is, and DOOMED to FAIL. The irony is endless here, Apples makes profits, Samsung gets the most sales from cheap smartphones to third world countries, not premium smartphones.
Like I stated in another comment, there were much larger devices that could use styluses. The Newton made a device you could hold with one hand, a stylus in another and no tether.
Everyone knows that the GRIDPad was really just a ripoff of the Write-Top anyways.
Let's throw the Tandy Zoomer into the frame then. Also released before the Newton
It’s already a failure.
There are bogos, discounts, free accessories and the phone hasn’t even launched.
Oh and and they made the bezels chunkier.
The difference is Samsung can sell 10 million Notes in a quarter and is considered a HUGE SUCCESS, while if Apple sold under 40 Million units opening weekend all the fandroids scream about what a failure Apple is, and DOOMED to FAIL. The irony is endless here, Apples makes profits, Samsung gets the most sales from cheap smartphones to third world countries, not premium smartphones.
Like I stated in another comment, there were much larger devices that could use styluses. The Newton made a device you could hold with one hand, a stylus in another and no tether.
Everyone knows that the GRIDPad was really just a ripoff of the Write-Top released in 1987 anyways.
Samsung fans would not quote units sold but units shipped. That number is bigger for them. They compare Samsung units shipped vs Apple's units sold.
I just purchased an iPhone 3G and I have to say Apple has lost what made it so great. While I understand technology marches on the current generation of smart phones lost the elegance of the earlier models.
The difference is Samsung can sell 10 million Notes in a quarter and is considered a HUGE SUCCESS, while if Apple sold under 40 Million units opening weekend all the fandroids scream about what a failure Apple is, and DOOMED to FAIL. The irony is endless here, Apples makes profits, Samsung gets the most sales from cheap smartphones to third world countries, not premium smartphones.
Like I stated in another comment, there were much larger devices that could use styluses. The Newton made a device you could hold with one hand, a stylus in another and no tether.
Everyone knows that the GRIDPad was really just a ripoff of the Write-Top released in 1987 anyways.
I think the 10 million is cumulative note sales not quarterly.
I believe the note 8 sold between 10-15 million units cumulatively and if s 9 sales can be used as to gauge demand. Note 9 will be luck to ship half that.
People keep telling me that, but I have never seen one being used in public or known anyone who has one. This is in Philadelphia also. Samsung sold an estimated 10 million Note 8 devices. As much as you want to believe that stylus' are hugely popular, the Note 8 didn't sell well at all. You're right though, no one is harsh, a very small number of people use a stylus. That's a little more accurate.
I've never understood why people love the units sold/units shipped/marketshare etc. It's a phone, just buy what suits your needs.
I don't walk around Tesco saying "I'm not going to buy that butter because this butter sells more then that one"
If people are so concerned about being misinterpreted, then they should choose their words more carefully in the first place instead of making impetuous one-liner remarks and waiting for others to cover for them.
Each to their own. I see it all the time. Over 10,000 Note 8's issued in my company.