In 2007, stylus pens were dumb plastic bits used to force together the layers of resistive touch screens. iPhone was about to make capacitive the only acceptable technology. Jobs was also a marketer. “No one wants video on an iPod” or anything… until Apple shipped theirs.https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1064897725165056000 …
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Rene, indeed sir. I wrote a little about Steve and the Pencil a while ago:https://www.quora.com/What-has-changed-between-when-Steve-Jobs-asserted-that-no-one-wants-a-stylus-and-today-when-Apple-introduces-the-Pencil/answer/Brian-Roemmele?ch=10&share=2a232e26&srid=Pi3 …
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1) That was 10+ years ago, the tech inside has advanced. (People forget the iPad was shelved because it wasn’t ready)
2) That was in regards to a small screen
3) Jobs wasn’t always right