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If I had to guess, the market isn't large enough nor or are the margins high enough for Apple to actually care. Aside from the Mac Pro, Apple seems allergic to

If I had to guess, the market isn't large enough nor or are the margins high enough for Apple to actually care. Aside from the Mac Pro, Apple seems allergic to creating products that only serve a single niche.

breckinloggins 13y ago
You're probably right. In that case, I wonder if Wacom could make some kind of a "frame" around the iPad that can triangulate a stylus and receive pressure data, etc?
- smacktoward 13y ago
  They'd probably be more inclined to find out if the market response to Surface had been something better than tepid.
- 32bitkid 13y ago
  http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/ http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/
  - footpath 13y ago
    The Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus (what a mouthful) uses Bluetooth for pressure, which is similar to the Pogo Connect and Adonit Jot Touch styli. What the OP want is perhaps something similar to the iPen 2 <http://www.cregle.com/> http://www.cregle.com/>, a pen and receiver combo that captures pressure sensitive data.
autoreverse 13y ago
Thanks for this comment. It made me see Apple in a new light. Apple in my mind is now a consumer products business (has been for years I guess) not a computer business as I used to "feel". Perhaps I'll be more open to other hardware for my next dev machine.
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago
  Everyone at Google and CS academia seems to have Macbook Retina Pros these days. They do very well in selling their consumer laptops to...developers, at least in these niches (I would guess that many HN crowd are in the same boat). And really, what more could you want as a dev (at least in a laptop)? My wife is a visual designer who has an external waccom tablet. She said the primary problem with integrated solutions to her is occlusion: she would still prefer a separate tablet. Gabe obviously has a different feeling about this, though I think he is using Illustrator also.
- awad 13y ago
  Steve Jobs: "When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular. PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be around…they are going to be one out of x people. This transformation is going to make some people uneasy…because the PC has taken us a long ways. It’s brilliant. We like to talk about the post-PC era, but when it really starts to happen, it’s uncomfortable." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006442-56.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006442-56.html
  - majgr 13y ago
    Wiki: "A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a vehicle similar to a station wagon or estate car, usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on- or off-road ability. Some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or large sedan. Since SUVs are considered light trucks in North America, and often share the same platform with pick-up trucks, at one time, they were regulated less strictly than passenger cars under the two laws in the United States" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_utility_vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_utility_vehicle People do not want trucks OR cars they do want BOTH.
  - Ygg2 13y ago
    The problem isn't post-PC era, but the problem is that our appliances will be PCs only crippled by a piece of software and you can be ruined for "unlocking" them. Imagine if you wanted to use your toaster to do Folding@Home while not doing toast and you get two years in jail. http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html Another more dangerous side is that is a real risk of someone misusing these computers in ways that make it hard to distinguish hacking something for use from abuse.

breckinloggins 13y ago

You're probably right. In that case, I wonder if Wacom could make some kind of a "frame" around the iPad that can triangulate a stylus and receive pressure data, etc?

smacktoward 13y ago
They'd probably be more inclined to find out if the market response to Surface had been something better than tepid.
32bitkid 13y ago
http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/ http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/
- footpath 13y ago
  The Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus (what a mouthful) uses Bluetooth for pressure, which is similar to the Pogo Connect and Adonit Jot Touch styli. What the OP want is perhaps something similar to the iPen 2 <http://www.cregle.com/> http://www.cregle.com/>, a pen and receiver combo that captures pressure sensitive data.

autoreverse 13y ago

Thanks for this comment. It made me see Apple in a new light. Apple in my mind is now a consumer products business (has been for years I guess) not a computer business as I used to "feel". Perhaps I'll be more open to other hardware for my next dev machine.

seanmcdirmid 13y ago
Everyone at Google and CS academia seems to have Macbook Retina Pros these days. They do very well in selling their consumer laptops to...developers, at least in these niches (I would guess that many HN crowd are in the same boat). And really, what more could you want as a dev (at least in a laptop)? My wife is a visual designer who has an external waccom tablet. She said the primary problem with integrated solutions to her is occlusion: she would still prefer a separate tablet. Gabe obviously has a different feeling about this, though I think he is using Illustrator also.
awad 13y ago
Steve Jobs: "When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular. PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be around…they are going to be one out of x people. This transformation is going to make some people uneasy…because the PC has taken us a long ways. It’s brilliant. We like to talk about the post-PC era, but when it really starts to happen, it’s uncomfortable." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006442-56.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006442-56.html
- majgr 13y ago
  Wiki: "A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a vehicle similar to a station wagon or estate car, usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on- or off-road ability. Some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or large sedan. Since SUVs are considered light trucks in North America, and often share the same platform with pick-up trucks, at one time, they were regulated less strictly than passenger cars under the two laws in the United States" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_utility_vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_utility_vehicle People do not want trucks OR cars they do want BOTH.
- Ygg2 13y ago
  The problem isn't post-PC era, but the problem is that our appliances will be PCs only crippled by a piece of software and you can be ruined for "unlocking" them. Imagine if you wanted to use your toaster to do Folding@Home while not doing toast and you get two years in jail. http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html Another more dangerous side is that is a real risk of someone misusing these computers in ways that make it hard to distinguish hacking something for use from abuse.