"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." -Steve Jobs
He was right for phones. You are quoting him out of context. Why?
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#42I don't understand the allure of a "pro" iPad. Wouldn't you just want a laptop then? The keyboard is (at least for me) the fastest accurate text input device ever invented. It's the main reason I type everything instead of write it by hand.
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#43"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." -Steve Jobs
This quote
- The whole of Twitter right now
But, this is just an accessory. See also: beats headphones, smart case.
Unlike the comedy "smartphone" attempts of 2005 which Steve Jobs was alluding to, you may still freely use your fingers.
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#44"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." -Steve Jobs
And it's not a Wacom-like active digitizer, you need to actually charge this thing. I feel the stylus that came with Windows XP tablet edition in 2002 was probably better than this.
Yeah the force sensor is in the pencil, not in the screen.
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#45I don't want it unless it has an exposed CLI without jail breaking.
Right? Why is this so difficult.
It's interesting that you would think difficulty is somehow related to this. Unless what you're really asking is "why is it so difficult to give me whatever I want" in which case the answer is not anything you're likely to want to hear.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Later edit. It's iOS for fuck sake. It's ridiculous to compare iOS with full Windows. A keyboard is not that useful in a TOUCH based OS.
Care to explain, why do you have multitasking in quotes? You think iOS is some version of DOS?
It's literally not a general purpose computer, you can't compile and execute code on it. DOS at least came with an assembler-debugger and a linker.
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#47Predicted by a 3 year old comic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're going to be using the web and Microsoft apps exclusively, it does, sure.
If by "Microsoft apps" you mean any program compiled for Windows in addition to any of those that can run on an OS supported by VirtualBox. So the iPad can run iOS apps while the Surface can run virtually anything except iOS apps. They're not really comparable platforms.
Are you seriously suggesting that anything more than a tiny fraction of Windows apps are any good on a touch device?
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#49"We can have both Word and Excel on the screen at the same time!" - Apple, 2015. These Apple keynotes can be pretty funny.
I'm hoping that was deliberate phrasing...because it would reflect the (correct, IMO) opinion that Apple's office suite isn't a replacement for MS Office, and that that opinion is agreed upon internally.
That said, it'd be fun to hear from a Apple employee...do they frequently use iWork for intraoffice documents?
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#50Looks like the Surface Pro with type cover and Stylus. As long as the mobile OS and locked down ecosystem limits it, many will be better off buying the Surface.
Although the stylus too seems to be inferior - it has batteries. Both the Surface and Note ones don't - probably because Wacom? If that's the case this is classic NIH case - putting out inferior product just because they couldn't call it Apple Pencil.