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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by diebeforei485 on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:30PM (#28911275)
This was for devices that only worked with a stylus, so if you lost the stylus you couldn't use most features of the device anymore.

Modern styluses like the Surface Tablet Pen or Apple Pencil are for drawing and note-taking, in addition to still being able to use fingers on the touchscreen.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by FireBeyond on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:39PM (#28912128)
This is revisionist history.

In the keynote, he never mentions "devices that require a stylus".

He says "who wants a stylus? Yuck!" and "if you see a stylus, someone did something wrong".

This spin into "well _obviously_ Steve meant X" is purely personality worship, not borne of his words.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by diebeforei485 on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:55PM (#28912301)
> In the keynote, he never mentions "devices that require a stylus".

Back in 2007, if something came with a stylus, it was overwhelmingly the case that the stylus was required.

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