Exactly, and a stylus was included with the Nintendo DS and DS Lite. So people concluding that Apple shipping a stylus is Apple copying Samsung are completely out of touch with reality.
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Exactly, and a stylus was included with the Nintendo DS and DS Lite. So people concluding that Apple shipping a stylus is Apple copying Samsung are completely out of touch with reality.
So you are going to just make a factless assumption that suits your argument, and then state we all knew what he meant. Ok...
Not getting drawing into this one, you just believe whatever you want and ignore everything that's gone before...
Okay that was an exaggeration. But iPhone has shaped the smartphone landscape - undeniably. Now more and more people try and paint Apple as a copycat, which seems unfair.
I never stated apple had never innovated, only that Samsung was innovative in terms of larger phones and tablets. Your "evolved by accident" arguement is laughable.
About time...
For anyone considering the purchase of a cintiq, this is fantastic news. Wacom will surely be worried about this. I am very excited about the possibly of being able to use an iPad as a pro graphics tablet and anyone complaining about it is missing the point (pardon the pun) the stylus won't be intended for everyday use...
For anyone considering the purchase of a cintiq, this is fantastic news. Wacom will surely be worried about this. I am very excited about the possibly of being able to use an iPad as a pro graphics tablet and anyone complaining about it is missing the point (pardon the pun) the stylus won't be intended for everyday use...
I think far too many people worry themselves too much about who did what first.
It doesn't matter who was the first with what, so long as my preferred device does what I need it to, and does it well.
It's because they used to innovate more, and now they follow the market more, like with bigger screen phones, they become hypocritical sometimes and it winds people up I think.
Like Samsung launched a big Screen tablet a year ago, called it the Pro and it has a stylus, here we are talking about a big screen iPad that may be called 'Pro' and have a Stylus but Apple aren't following the market or Samsung? Yeah right.
But no point going on as this stylus is only a rumour, you never know with Apple. Would be interesting to see what artists make of another tablet with a stylus if they DO make one that isn't a PC.
Is an Android or iOS solution better or as good as a Surface Pro with a full on Pro graphics package?
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That's pretty much exactly what you're doing. He was on stage talking about the best way to interact with your phone, which would be with tools you have with you at all times: your fingers.
He never said anything about drawing, drafting, painting, CAD, or note taking. Especially when you consider that he was introducing the iPhone, the iPad was still a few years away from release, and none of the iDevices were anywhere near powerful enough to do most of these things competitively against a desktop or higher end laptop at the time, while now they're pretty damn close.
Using a stylus as a required part of using a phone was exactly what he was talking about. It's not even read between the lines stuff.
Samsung is licensing the technology from wacom. Microsoft is licensing from ntrig. But Samsung was the first to introduce a pen into phones and android tablets. When apple introduces a pen they will join MS, Samsung, Toshiba, Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Sony and Wacom as pc/tablet manufacturers who introduced active pen functionality to their products.
They are not copying Samsung, they are catching up to the industry!
And somehow you forgot the newton!
Samsung was the first to introduce a smart pen with buttons on a phone, phones have had stylus for years but they were just pointing sticks. I also don't know of any Sony or Dell or Lenovo or Acer tablets with active pens? Particularly Sony?
I guess that's why they can't sell the 6 or 6 plus.......oh wait, they broke records with those.
Jobs was a good "car salesman" among other things. He said what was needed to sell what they had.
Sigh... Steve is rolling over in his grave
Steve was not thinking about a 12+ inch tablet. If this device is aimed at content creators (as opposed to the one Steve introduced, which was aimed at consumers), then a stylus is mandatory.
Tablet for content consumers---> no stylus
Tablet for content creators--> stylus
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You present a low bar for "innovative". To me, innovative means new features and designing for new uses. "Larger" is not "innovative" per se. Of course, they may have had to design innovative new manufacturing processes to build "larger" devices; but then that's the processes that would be innovative, not the product.
Ah the Newton!
But yes, you're right. They will be 'catching up' in that regard, but Apple's still Apple and thankfully can make a calm response to the industry.
Your cintique offers better pressure support--but if is only perceptable on larger brushes. Research what that 2048 number really means .The diagnol jitter issue in ntrig is to me is akin to the edge jitter complaint made against wacom. Both technologies have weaknesses that can easily go unnoticed in normal use.
Cintique recognizes pen tilt, ntrig has true tracking with no screen gap offset. There are pros and cons to each technology. Cintique with Mac os is not a mobile option at this time
Sigh... Steve is rolling over in his grave
In order for him to spin every time someone posted that on this forum he would have to be buried mounted on a rotisserie.
Thanks for your honest assessment. How many OSes have you designed yourself, just out of curiosity?
Wasn't there jokes about the Tab Pro being in response to the runored iPad Pro?
I know rumours are rumours but this might be similar to what's happened with the Watch: Apple begin work on a new idea/iteration and before they've finished and released it, someone else has had the same idea.
I say might: undoubtably they don't sit with their head in the sand. They could have a Tab and a Surface on campus and be thinking 'crap, we need to be competitive here' or else 'this would be so great but they lack x which we could build...'
Isn't the question how many OS's has he used? And as a user has valid insights into the value of its design?
A very good point. A friend of mine summed it up well with 'companies steal ideas from each other all the time - they're just responding to what the market wants'. However, I was responding to someone who implied Apple was The Copycat Company, and felt certain facts needed to be pointed out.
I said "products" not "tablets". But since you mentioned Sony--they did introduce a windows 8 tablet with ntrig pen in 2013--it was called the tap 11. Also--the Sony duo 13-- is still the best hybrid tablet with pen computer. Sony closed pc operations in late 2014.
Now, try googling Dell Venue.
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How do you know they would not introduce a highly innovative stylus? Just adding a stylus to a tablet was not innovative on anyone's part. But not every improvement has to be an innovation to be worthwhile-- sometimes it's uniquely valuable to just add old A to existing B.
Please tell that to all the artists and designers who choose to use a pen/pencil/stylus or paintbrush rather than their finger tips.
N-trig pens have batteries in the stylus.