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Re:Sprout by rtpg on Thursday October 30, 2014 @04:40AM (#8531933)
>Why not just edit the email/document using a keyboard, you can even do it in a google doc so the other person can live collaborate, but as we know live collaboration is fine in movies but in real life is very very hard to do. Humans are just not build for it.

Because some people prefer a pen to a keyboard when trying to mark modifications to a draft?

Surely you can imagine of at least one situation where a pen is a useful input device.

Re:Sprout by lmm on Thursday October 30, 2014 @10:54AM (#8533252)
Honestly it's very difficult to imagine a case where pen is better. I can type faster than I can write, and everyone can read my typing much more easily than my writing. Etherpad (sadly killed by google) had a great annotation UI. Maybe for serious mathematics with formulae, or something where you want to annotate 2D diagrams (architecture?), but that seems pretty niche.
Re:Sprout by aaron695 on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:40PM (#8536878)
I can, not saying you can’t, but technology using a pen interfacing with a computer is decades ok and mature but is still not commonly used hence I don’t think it’s a useful tool in general.