[NTLK] Fwd: Apple Confirms January 27th Media Event

[Jon Glass]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Goodwin, Greg P. <GoodwinG at aafes.com> wrote:
> Couldn't you use a stylus if you REALLY wanted to, or is more keyed to a human finger?
>
> Reason I ask, if they don't have a stylus, couldn't a person just find one out there for other tablet devices (a Newton stylus even) and use it on this new device?
>
All the stylii <g> I've seen for the iPhone are fat on the end like a
finger. Pointed stylii are out, because the touch is
capacitive-based--in other words, requiring an electrical charge based
on your skin. It needs a surface area to work with, I guess. I can't
see this working like this. I _have_ seen a tablet that uses a special
stylus that the touch screen recognizes, and works like a normal
stylus, but I somehow don't see Apple going the stylus route. It's too
"twentieth-century" and confusing to have two ways of interacting. For
the same reason, I don't see this guy working with a BlueTooth
keyboard, sadly.


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 -Jon Glass
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