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No, he doesn't get a pass that easily either.

Point to another device that only allows Stylus input or expects it to be the primary input.

There's not. The Surface is a primarily multi-touch device that also allows for Stylus input.

What's good for the goose, good for the gander.

He said that over seven years ago. Two years before the Surface. The tablets at the time definitely did require a little pointy device to access the Start menu and interact with the "Tablet" OSes that were just desktop OSes with a few bolt-ons.

Jobs has form for this kind of thing, too (breaking something to force developer behavior before reintroducing it when habits have changed).

Best example: the original Mac had no cursor keys (to force developers to build mouse-based UIs). Steven Levy writes about it at length in "Insanely Great".

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