> Today, of course, Apple ships an excellent stylus that they are happy to sell you for $129.
Apple Pencil does not work with iPhone, only with iPads, which... makes sense. Artists use them as drawing tablets. But nobody uses a Apple Pencil with an iPhone.
Which I imagine is intentional by Apple for aesthetic reasons since iPad should only be navigated by touch.
The stylus support on Samsung flagships is very convenient to have cross device capability on, and everyone I know who has those devices feels similarly.
Eg when doing something on the tab with the pen and having a calculator open on the phone and seamlessly being able to use the pen for that. Support on phones, especially with the large screens these days, allows for all sorts of little synergies that make the experience much more smooth.
This kind of synergy is especially convenient for students and teachers. But because Apple hasn't decided to make a slick commercial about it "revolutionizing" computing, HN must act like it isn't a thing.
I was saying that Apple tends to ignore the specialized/higher-precision option initially, focusing on the majority of the market that may not need it.
But then they introduce it later. As I suspect they will do in this case, too. But that leaves an opening (maybe, temporarily, if they can capitalize on it) for competitors that do support more specialized input devices.
If you wanted to draw diagrams or use handwriting input, Android had a huge advantage at first, ... until it didn't.
It took me 3 days just to really feel I understood what the Vision Pro video demonstrated. I was very uncomfortable watching the initial video. The first feeling was voyeuritistic as if I was spying on the user. The second feeling was the horror of actual people using them in isolated squalid environments. Eventually I rationalized that the demonstration was really about hand/finger/eye tracking in space. The "spatial" interface was the most special thing they demoed. The rest of the demo was hardware power and the ergonomics.
ehhh...
>But nobody uses a Apple Pencil with an iPhone.