> Read, from PC Magazine: > > " When PCMag's editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff put together a list of > dream features for the forthcoming Apple iPad tablet earlier in the > week, a stylus ranked pretty high. But Lance's dream was just > that--Steve Jobs, after all, has long been anti-stylus, as evidenced > by the iPhone. Upon its release, Jobs told a crowd, "Who wants a > stylus. You have to get 'em and put 'em away, and you lose 'em. Yuck. > Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." > > "The guy said "yuck." Evidence doesn't come much stronger than that." > > See, on Youtube: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhpBlINkUo > > The Youtube video is edited and goes overboard, but it does capture > Jobs flailing his arms about, whipping up the crowd at the iPhone > launch, and setting the table for his view of a world without pointing > or drawing or writing instruments, other than the finger, for use with > computers. And, yes, he says that Apple will not support or supply > styli because they can get lost.
Case made. What a bizarre thing to say. "I don't like styli, so you can't have one." ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
