He said "from an engineering perspective", not "from a user's perspective." Of course his opinion is valid as a user. But that was not what he said. Only an engineer is qualified to assess a design from an engineering perspective.
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Apple Predicted to Launch Optional Stylus Accessory Alongside 12.9-Inch 'iPad Pro'
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He said "from an engineering perspective", not "from a user's perspective." Of course his opinion is valid as a user. But that was not what he said. Only an engineer is qualified to assess a design from an engineering perspective.
I have to LOL at this considering how atrocious the competing tablet operating systems are. What do you have to say for them?
So did I, and I happen to like them.
But yeah, some people can't stand the fact that they go off center and that they can cause damage to the screen.Yeah, I'm sure Steve was really concerned about patents as he was being treated for or dying of cancer during that period.
Also Apple file any number of patents, not because they'll ever use the designs, but because they one day may be able to use them to sue a competitor.
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LOL at the sweeping statement. Unless you get down to specifics it's utterly meaningless.
To be fair, having read his autobiography, i can very much imagine him being involved in this patent, even that close to his death. Is his name on the patent? I wouldn't know how to find out.
It's possible if he had a hand in it, but in that same biography it talks about how much Steve disdained styluses.
Ah, that good old defense. I take it you'll never criticize any politicians or engineers. You'll never say that a TV is designed poorly. You've never made a TV, or a bridge, or a TV.
Nope, because it's easier to try to invalidate my opinion that way.
Samsung uses the screen real estate better, as does Microsoft. And have you seen Ubuntu on a tablet? If these are atrocious, then you must really hate iOS.
As stated over and over here it is painfully clear that he disdained styli as a necessary means of interaction with the device. If anything, at the time he said that, Apple had an even bigger share of the creative market than it does today. He never would have told those artists that they should give up their pens, pencils, paintbrushes and other 'tools'. Adding a stylus to a device today is merely representative of where the market is at today, not 2007.
If you want specifics, read further into my later posts. But the problem, essentially, boils down to the fact that iOS 1-6 were made with smaller screens in mind and not much beyond that. It was designed for low power chips to maximize battery life.
Hogwash.
Android does a truly atrocious job at using screen real estate because they screwed up and built their developer's kit around the idea of letting software decide how to scale elements. Today, YEARS later, Android still has crummy tablet apps. I have a 10" Android tablet (mid-2014). I virtually NEVER use the multi-tasking.
Microsoft allows you to multi-task, but honestly, it's rarely that big of a deal for me - I use that feature more when docked to my large monitors than when using my SP3 on its own. Microsoft has screwed up by not putting any effort into their app store, so there are effectively NO apps available, again, even years and years later. (I owned a SP1 as well and thought the situation would be better today. It's not.) The one thing Windows does well is allow for quick scrolling through open full-screen apps with edge gestures, but iOS does this as well. They both work great and I find it far preferable to having multiple apps open side-by-side the majority of the time.
Further, allowing side-by-side apps, which Apple will likely offer soon, speaks to nothing of the quality of the apps themselves, and how well they use the available space. In that category, nothing touches Apple because they designed the system correctly from the bottom up, and have by far the largest pool of top developers creating apps for their devices.
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I think most people might be worried that Apple will implement features or ways to use the iPad which would essentially require you to use a stylus.
I personally would have no problem with Apple at least implementing an active digitizer, and let those who want buy a stylus if they want it.
Does this mean there's going to be another annual lawsuit between apple and some other company that uses or makes stylus?
No it isn't. It's perfectly fine and there are thousands of artists who've done wonders on the regular sized iPad.
That doesn't explain anything. He obviously didn't care if people use styluses with Apple products, they've been available forever. But why would he design a stylus or have one designed by Apple? The OS hasn't changed that much and the fundamental usability/user interface questions remain the same. Styluses haven't suddenly become that much different.
Like so many other things at Apple, this is obviously something that was worked on or talked about during Steve's rule, but went nowhere. Now that he's dead his views no longer are final and things like this emerge.
Either wild speculation or shady, supply chain, information piracy. I think the original iPad and iPhone announcements were the last magical moments for Apple product launches. There's a lot of false information out there, but it seems like the general outlines if not outright specifics of Apple's plans are almost all leaked beforehand.
The stylus is no longer intended as a primary means of user interaction. It's a writer's and artist's tool for a platform that has developed greatly over the years. That's a huge difference. They stylus has to be incorportated into the design to work properly.
Perhaps. the challenge of pen tech is not how to do it--but how to do it a way that doesn't infringe on patented tech.
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Sorry to spam--the implied equivalance between capacitative pens on the ipad and active digitizers by wacom and ntrig is simply not true.
Yeah, I find that funny considering Google and Android phones wouldn't even exist in their current form without iPhone.
Sigh... Steve is rolling over in his grave
Maybe. Give the people what they want. You can't "write" with your finger. I'm looking at the Jot Script because apple has nothing to offer in that department.
Brian