Apple Researching Stylus Concepts with Optical Tracking and Haptic Feedback

[Mac Kiwi]

Apple probably should have bought Wacom when they { apple } introduced the first iPad.

Being able to fire up PS or Painter etc on your tablet { fully featured } would be a game changer. Now they will have to try and avoid all the patents Wacom have created over the years.

Wacom do have the cintiqs themselves so I wonder if they have ever considered building a tablet? You would have to wonder if they have.......If they { wacom } fully teamed up with Samsung then Apple might be in some trouble.

 

[twoodcc]

having a stylus to use as well as your finger sounds like a good thing to me

 

[devilstrider]

Funny how everyone talked trash about the galaxy note because it had a stylus. Now that apple wants to implement one everyone is all that would be great.

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Fast forward to the following posts...

"Lots of phones and devices had styli but it was Apple that made it popular"

"Apple didn't copy Samsung and others. The newton had a stylus WAY before the Note"

"Steve jobs didn't say Apple would never make a stylus. Just like he never said they would NEVER make a screen larger than 3.5". He just said it wasn't optimal. Apple did their research back then. Anyway - that was before the iPad 7!"

And so on...

The newton came out in 1993. The GRiDPad came out in 1989.

Then the Tandy Zoomer 1992