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Pencil. Jobs is spinning in his grave. Edit: 99 dollars !!

• hullo 11y ago
  I like to joke too, but not really, if you're serious - Jobs always hated things until he could claim that Apple reinvented them. Even Gruber was making fun of it yesterday. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/08/gizmodo-netflix http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/08/gizmodo-netflix In any case what Jobs meant was that the companies that were putting out devices that required a stylus to operate correctly were doing it wrong, and that's been proven pretty extensively by the kind of touch interaction that the iPhone popularized. Specifically: the new iPad Pro works just fine with touch, but you also have an option of an Apple-sourced stylus for more intricate work.
  • dragonwriter 11y ago
    > In any case what Jobs meant was that the companies that were putting out devices that required a stylus to operate correctly were doing it wrong, Perhaps in the original iPhone announcement, but Jobs kept repeating anti-stylus lines long after that, when the only current major products with stylus that they could have been referencing were multitouch devices with styluses included but not required. Just like anything other than the original iPhone (or iPad!) size, everyone in the market doing it was wrong -- until Apple decided they needed to do it, too.
• marknutter 11y ago
  $99 is right on par with similar styluses.
  • gadrfgaesgysd 11y ago
    Its competitor costs between 35$ and 50$. That isn't on par. http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Pen-Pro/dp/B00KHQWAIC http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Pen-Pro/dp/B00KHQWAI...
• michaelbuddy 11y ago
  you can get a low to medium end tablet for the price of apple's stylus. What magic powers are in this pen of his?