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All iPads When will Apple make its own STYLUS?

coolwater

coolwater

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I have been wanting and waiting Apple to make its own stylus since iPhone 3G days. (Yeah, I know what Jobs said about stylus... and I also know many of you don't feel the same need.)

Using and loving iPad every day for the 5th year now, I am really getting tired of using aftermarket styli on my iPads.

I have been boycotting Samsung products over 6 or 7 years because of their horrible and corrupt deeds in their home country. However, I really really envy Samsung's Wacom S-Pen.
 
coolwater said:
I have been wanting and waiting Apple to make its own stylus since iPhone 3G days. (Yeah, I know what Jobs said about stylus... and I also know many of you don't feel the same need.)

Using and loving iPad every day for the 5th year now, I am really getting tired of using aftermarket styli on my iPads.

I have been boycotting Samsung products over 6 or 7 years because of their horrible and corrupt deeds in their home country. However, I really really envy Samsung's Wacom S-Pen.
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It's never going to happen so I suggest you just accept that. Apple has designed its tablets and phones with finger touch in mind and do not see a stylus as a viable input device. This is never going to change. Either you get use to it or switch to a brand that caters for your needs.
 
GoSmart 200 series stylus was the best stylus I ever used. I highly recommend it if you haven't tried it yet.
 
coolwater said:
I have been wanting and waiting Apple to make its own stylus since iPhone 3G days. (Yeah, I know what Jobs said about stylus... and I also know many of you don't feel the same need.)

Using and loving iPad every day for the 5th year now, I am really getting tired of using aftermarket styli on my iPads.

I have been boycotting Samsung products over 6 or 7 years because of their horrible and corrupt deeds in their home country. However, I really really envy Samsung's Wacom S-Pen.
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I would love Wacom functionality in an iPad too. Was hoping Apple might go this route. Didn't happen. Might not ever happen. They certainly aren't going to slap Wacom's logo on the box, so whatever they do will have to be Apple designed (or aquired) and not in conflict with other patents.

But I'm not interested in Android tablets, so I will stick with third party solutions. The Wacom stylus for iPad is pretty good.
 
I agree that a stylus would be a great addition. I understand why Jobs was anti-stylus originally -- it was important to create a device that worked perfectly well without one. Now that it's a mature product, though, Apple would do well to recognize that writing with a pen-shaped device has certain advantages over a fingertip. Exploiting those advantages would make for a better product.
 
Mr.C said:
It's never going to happen so I suggest you just accept that. Apple has designed its tablets and phones with finger touch in mind and do not see a stylus as a viable input device. This is never going to change. Either you get use to it or switch to a brand that caters for your needs.
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If that is your logic iPads would never have been an Apple product, as Jobs specifically quoted that Apple would never develop a tablet. With the Apple patent earlier this year (January) Apple patented a "Captive Stylus", beginning their work to create an Apple stylus. Apple has its way of getting into a specific market a bit later than its competitors, but innovating the product of competitors to perfection.

(Apologies for grammar in advanced, college student running on a few hours of sleep haha :eek: .)
 
bluespark said:
I agree that a stylus would be a great addition. I understand why Jobs was anti-stylus originally -- it was important to create a device that worked perfectly well without one. Now that it's a mature product, though, Apple would do well to recognize that writing with a pen-shaped device has certain advantages over a fingertip. Exploiting those advantages would make for a better product.
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Also Jobs anti-stylus position made perfect sense in the context of a pocket device like a Palm or iPhone or even the not so pocketable Newton. But when you have 7 or 10" of real estate the practical uses for a (pressure sensitive) stylus are more credible.

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Wzrd0715 said:
If that is your logic iPads would never have been an Apple product, as Jobs specifically quoted that Apple would never develop a tablet.
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Except he was referring to a tablet computer like Windows had with a full bore PC OS & touch screen operated by stylus. The iPad is a tablet reimagined & nothing resembling those of the early 00s. Even after the iPad Job said of the forthcoming hybrid PCs that a computer with a touch screen was stupid.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Except he was referring to a tablet computer like Windows had with a full bore PC OS & touch screen operated by stylus. The iPad is a tablet reimagined & nothing resembling those of the early 00s. Even after the iPad Job said of the forthcoming hybrid PCs that a computer with a touch screen was stupid.
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Exactly. Touch screen tablets were already developed, which Apple in turn innovated to meet the demand of the market.
 
When Hell freezes over

Seriously, if enough third parties start making money with them Apple will start to get interested
 
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