Apple Unveils the iPad Pro

Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by seiji on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @02:04PM (#10193015)

We have to consider context as well.

The original stylus comment was for a 3.5" pocket phone. Previously, things like Palm Treo or Windows Mobile devices required a stylus to touch the resistive sensing screen. That is the baseline.

Anybody taking the quotes out of historical context is just trying to incite an argument and pretend they are better than Tim Cook. Nobody is better than Tim Cook.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by StillBored on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:54PM (#10194051)

Uh the treo didn't _REQUIRE_ a stylus, it worked when poked at with a fingernail. Which was fine for course operations with big buttons. The problems were things drawn as 4x4 pixel targets (or something equally insane). But that problem still exists to a certain extent. I have to be really careful with the iphone onscreen keyboard because my finger (above average hand size) easily covers multiple buttons. Unlike my wife, who's fingers apparently are the target audience. The cheap little iphone stylus can definitely help.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by FireBeyond on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @06:42PM (#10195145)

The original comment. Yes.

And then at the launch of the iPad - "if you see a stylus, you blew it".

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