“On Tuesday, September 8, Apple unveiled an all new iPad, the iPad Pro. It sports a gorgeous 12.9″ display, and works in concert with the amazing new Apple Pencil,” Mark Reschke writes for T-GAAP. “iPad Pro combined with Apple Pencil will be a graphic artist’s dream. However, the media seems obsessed by one comment made by the late Steve Jobs in 2007.”
“In January of 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. The iPhone had no physical keyboard, just a 3.5″ multi-touch display. It was, at the time, a radical approach. During the unveiling Jobs explained how users would interact with the device,” Reschke writes. “A stylus was out of the question.”
“What the media has omitted is that Steve Jobs comments regarding a stylus was in context of a 3.5″ iPhone display,” Reschke writes. “For the media to imply a nearly 8 year old Jobs’ comment — that was referring to how to use a 3.5″ iPhone interface — is also a comment Jobs also made about the new 12.9″ state-of-the-art iPad Pro, largely geared to the creative market, is not only sensationalism for the sake of controversy, it is outright lazy and deceptive journalism.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote back in August:
The stylus will become more important with the “iPad Pro,” with its larger display for enterprise and education. Before anybody goes quoting the guy below, an iPad is not an iPhone:
“Who wants a stylus? You have to get ’em and put ’em away and you lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus, so let’s not use a stylus.” – Steve Jobs, January 9, 2007
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Apple patent application reveals advanced ‘active stylus’ for iOS devices – December 31, 2012
Apple patent application reveals more about their optical iPen and graphics program – May 24, 2012
Apple patent app details smart, heated ‘iPen’ stylus for iPad and iPhone – July 7, 2011
Apple patent application details new type of stylus for iPad – February 3, 2011
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jeff L.” for the heads up.]