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Apple's 'Communicating Stylus' for Capturing Digital Versions of Handwritten Notes Wins Patent
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Good point... Company evolve and Job initial perception on the stylus may also evolve ...
Enter Samsung
Let's start producing a stylus today to ship by the end of the month. Don't worry about design or usability!
-Samsung Engineering Team, after reading the RSS feed from USPTO on new Apple patents
Let's start producing a stylus today to ship by the end of the month. Don't worry about design or usability!
-Samsung Engineering Team, after reading the RSS feed from USPTO on new Apple patents
So when you go to sketch a diagram or write a quick note on a whiteboard you just dip those built-ins in ink?
Actually Samsung has had styli for quite some time. They won't be copying apple since they beat apple to the punch by years.
Lots of people photograph whiteboards right now. It's easy and requires no additional hardware to draw or to share. How would this be better?
Think of all the changes you make to a whiteboard as you brainstorm with a group. How would editing work with this stylus device? Even more daunting; how would you edit something you had drawn "in the air"? You wouldn't even be able to see it.
Not dismissing the idea totally. It just needs a lot of work to get it to something useable.
Odd patent for a dying art
As we move to a paperless society (to a reasonable extent), it seems odd that Apple would patent this archaic use of pen/ink/paper when you (Apple) already produce technology that shifts to pure digital. I currently use an iPad Air, NotesPlus and a Wacom Bamboo Fineline stylus (also used the Adonit Script Pro), and I haven't moved back to pen and ink. I use this every day as my primary note taking methodology. Maybe this is an old idea that Apple has had in the mill for a long while, since this patent (in my humble opinion) is old news.
As we move to a paperless society (to a reasonable extent), it seems odd that Apple would patent this archaic use of pen/ink/paper when you (Apple) already produce technology that shifts to pure digital. I currently use an iPad Air, NotesPlus and a Wacom Bamboo Fineline stylus (also used the Adonit Script Pro), and I haven't moved back to pen and ink. I use this every day as my primary note taking methodology. Maybe this is an old idea that Apple has had in the mill for a long while, since this patent (in my humble opinion) is old news.
Some (not saying you) seem to think that what Jobs (and any CEO) says at a keynote has anything to do with reality. It's marketing. In a world with a physical keyboard and styli, Jobs was introducing a phone that didn't require either. What he said was to differentiate his product from all the others. A unique selling proposition that at the time, no other vendor could match.
Whether or Jobs truly hates styli or not is secondary.
Apple's patent was submitted in Jan 2010!
And this one would beat Samsung's hands down.Ok - now imagine not needing to take that iPad air around with you everywhere.
That's the appeal (for me) for the livescribe right now. No computer or tether needed. Just the pen (and ok - pad).
This would effectively make any surface, a tablet surface. As the article indicates - even "thin air"
With a photograph you have to take the photo, and manually insert it where you want it. You still then only have a picture of the board which may not be that detailed. This pen would presumably work the way OneNote works with handwritten content where every stroke is its own object and can be individually edited. It works extremely well.
This needs to happen. The assortment of third party styluses on the market, regardless of how expensive, mostly suck. Especially if you have any kind of screen protector on your device, which is basically a necessity these days.
It's way past time for Apple to officially do this. Thinking back to the Newton days, it's mind boggling that it hasn't happened sooner. Hate me if you want to, but that Samsung stylus included with the Note is actually pretty useful. All the youngsters think Samsung invented it.
It's way past time for Apple to officially do this. Thinking back to the Newton days, it's mind boggling that it hasn't happened sooner. Hate me if you want to, but that Samsung stylus included with the Note is actually pretty useful. All the youngsters think Samsung invented it.
Thank goodness some people friggin get this. This is not only a stylus, but a marker, a pen, a pencil, a tool for allowing someone to write on nearly any NON-TECHNICAL/ELECTRIFIED surface and store it to an iDevice.
Hence, the limited imaginations of those who only see a stylus.
Mac rumors needs help this week. Posting patent information about stylus when Apple CLEARLY will never use one??? WOW. its a slow news week...
So for drawing apps you'd rather use your fingers for precise drawing than a stylus? Using your iPad in a business meeting with a Note taking app, you'd rather your finger to quickly write out notes rather then a stylus? For businesses that use the iPhone and/or iPad to complete financial transactions that require a signature, it's better to write with a big ol finger than a stylus? For students who use it for school...the list goes on and on why a stylus is 10 times better than using a finger for many reasons and situations.
That's what I'm thinking. I heard the Inkling was pretty cool to use in tandem with the sketchbook and open the image on another device. I've never seen it in person but own a Wacom Intuos which is an extremely handy tool.
This... could be sick.
Screw the stylus on a touchscreen concept. Again, fingers. But to draw/make notes on paper, and have those marks digitized could be a powerful tool I'd be interested in owning/using.
That tech already exists now by Wacom called Inkling. Look it up. It's pretty oool.
After looking at this further, the potential is huge for a new era in note taking. The exciting part is not about using a stylus on a screen. It's using a "smartpen" anywhere and still have the strokes recognized wirelessly or the over the air and be translated into usable digital content. Knowing Apple, they won't release anything like this until they consider all integration touch points. Knowing Samsung, they will try to release their "smartpen" before long
Then of course Google will release Android Write as the new sub OS.
Then of course Google will release Android Write as the new sub OS.
