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JamesRustleford t1_ixrxuhj wrote

Reply to comment by whocaresfuckthisshit in An iPhone Apple Pencil was scrapped at the last minute, leaker claims by CatDaddyJudeClaw

"Who wants a stylus? You have to get them, put them away, and you lose them, yuck. Nobody wants a stylus."

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Tumblrrito t1_ixs01uy wrote

He was right about a stylus being a lousy primary input device, but the success of the Galaxy Note has proven that there is utility in having a stylus for certain things. I’d love one for notes and annotation, as fat-fingering a drawing just doesn’t work well.

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GeneralZaroff1 t1_ixscenk wrote

Yep. So many people completely misunderstood that the stylus at the time he was talking about was before capacitive touchscreens.

Capacitive touchscreens still are still infinitely better than the stylus-based devices like Palm Pilots at the time.

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Quin1617 t1_ixsku1o wrote

Agreed. I loved my Note and used it’s stylus pretty much daily.

Jobs was right about one thing though, I lost it on more than one occasion.

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modulusshift t1_ixsjetw wrote

Also note that he said “nobody wants to watch video on a small iPod screen” at the iPod Photo launch event, only a year before releasing an iPod that could play video as the new selling point. Steve Jobs was a salesman first and foremost, he’d always tell you that anything he doesn’t have couldn’t possibly compare to what he did have, right up until he had the other thing too.

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Captain_Alaska t1_ixt3jzi wrote

>Also note that he said “nobody wants to watch video on a small iPod screen” at the iPod Photo launch event, only a year before releasing an iPod that could play video as the new selling point.

I mean, you're leaving out that they bumped the screen size between the 4th and 5th gen iPods.

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