Apple may whip out a stylus for the iPhone XI Plus

6. worldpeace (Posts: 2952; Member since: 15 Apr 2016)

And Steve Jobs will appreciate this.
He love phone with stylus, just like when Samsung released it's first note, Steve says "Yuck"
/s

51. Dr.Phil (Posts: 2180; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)

I think it's important to keep in mind that heads of companies say stuff all the time that they end up going back on years later. You have to remember the most important thing for a business to do is sell a product. And you as the head of a company are always going to defend your products from the competition. Outwardly, a company will always project it has the best products while internally it may be working to figure out what the competition did right and wrong and then adjust.

For example, we've now seen Google go back against it's prior statement that having a headphone jack showed it was better than Apple. GM used to spend millions of dollars to kill the electric car, and now they have spent billions of dollars trying to make one.

The point is that if you are to keep track of what CEOs and execs say about a certain technology now versus years from now, you are bound to find dozens of examples of hypocrisy.

59. tedkord (Posts: 16881; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

Most don't say or with the arrogance or hatred of Steve, though.

92. Dr.Phil (Posts: 2180; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)

Have you never seen Elon Musk’s tweets or statements before? That guy can be pretty arrogant too. A lot of CEOs are arrogant. Do you not remember when the former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer literally was on camera laughing at the iPhone when it was first introduced? Or how arrogant the former execs of BlackBerry were that they felt they didn’t have to adopt anything new to compete with the iPhone or Android and went from having a stock worth over $200 to now about $10?

The fact is that there are certain people out there that act in an arrogant way. Just pray you will never have to see a neurosurgeon. If you want to talk about arrogance, those guys have their head so far up their rear ends you would think they could do no wrong ever.

94. tedkord (Posts: 16881; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

Musk doesn't run around claiming every competing product is stolen from him. Or declare he's going thermonuclear. Or sue everyone over ideas he stole, too.

108. Dr.Phil (Posts: 2180; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)

So let me get this straight, you’re going to take it out on a company for a previous CEO (that is dead btw) that hasn’t been in charge of the company for years for what they’re deciding to do now just because it goes against what a previous CEO said?

Are we going to be doing the same to just about every company that has changed CEOs in the last 10 years?

106. apple-rulz (Posts: 1718; Member since: 27 Dec 2016)

Ignore teddy. He’s a known anti-Apple troll, with a huge chip on his shoulder. Probably he tried to get a job at an Apple store and was rejected, but who knows?

10. toukale (Posts: 573; Member since: 10 Jun 2015)

Oh so you mean, the Apple Newton from the 1990's who had a 5X7" screeen with a stylus that Apple shipped and sold does not count?

15. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

Nope, because it was a complete failure vs other phones/PDA's being sold that had a stylus.

18. toukale (Posts: 573; Member since: 10 Jun 2015)

Oh, I see how this works now, keep moving the goalpost. Look Apple has been making computers for over 25 years. There is little that's going on now that they have not done along the way. Like the way I see folks talk about android, I am like, you know all those things have been done on pc's and macs for decades right?

30. AxelFoley (Posts: 529; Member since: 30 May 2017)

Then go tell all those people who say that the Apple Pencil doesn't count because it's on a tablet about your moving goalposts (Even though there are Note and Pro tablet lines).

And the S pen is not a merely a "stylus", it is a digitizer and it appeared in the Note in 2011. The MS Surface debuted in 2012. Otherwise, the LG Cookie would be a pioneer in 2009. So get this word through your head....digitizer....digitizer.....say it with me.....digitizer.

31. toukale (Posts: 573; Member since: 10 Jun 2015)

Oh, let's give it a different name to try to make it unique, that way we can say it's innovative. We all know what it is. The things folks try to give android credit for is long. NFC, Inductive Charging etc. You know all those things were not invented by any android oem's and they are standards anyone can adopt into their product. Putting it into your product does not make you innovative. People are so desperate to get from under the Apple shadow it's funny. You know as long as the world continue to use the iPhone templates, they are not going anywhere.

37. AxelFoley (Posts: 529; Member since: 30 May 2017)

So, the only difference between a stylus and a digitizer is the name. We'll just ignore writing in a locked screen, live message, translation, magnification, air command.....

Your intellectual dishonesty with the "it's just a name comment" shows the extent to which you'll willfully ignore facts to defend Apple. And again, the problem is with all the Apple fans and CEOs who all called it a "gimmick". It goes to show that with Apple, everything is a gimmick....til they do it.

63. tedkord (Posts: 16881; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

Just like pinch to zoom, slide to unlock, multi-touch, TouchID. All things others came up with, Apple adopted (and in some cases, sued over).

62. tedkord (Posts: 16881; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

You mean like the things Apple sued others for on smartphones that had been done on PCs years ago?

80. Mr.Pussy (banned) (Posts: 348; Member since: 16 Feb 2017)

While you girls fighting over who has it first. The big credit actually goes to the makers/inventor. Without them nothing works. Credits goes to the maker not the person who put it on. Guessed who are the makers?

85. Skimshaddy (banned) (Posts: 126; Member since: 23 Feb 2016)

Sony, LG, Samsung.... They make screens. Without these screens to work with stylus nothing works. Well Apple don't make screen. They are more like 15 years old kids who got lot of money buy kits to throw in their new flashy car and claim they make it. OK I give them credit for putting in together lol. The makers like you boys are genus. Go tell your friends come back and buy more lol.

83. ecmedic4 (Posts: 520; Member since: 02 May 2013)

Doesn't matter if it was a failure or not, the point he's making is they already had a phone/PDA with a stylus so technically aren't copying. The motorola Atrix had the first fingerprint scanner, and it was largely a failure at the time, but all you Android fans say it counts, so trying to claim the Newton doesn't count is like he said moving the goalpost. Not that I expect any better from you.

60. tedkord (Posts: 16881; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

Ah, so that was a capacitive stylus that did the things the S-Pen does?

13. Well-Manicured-Man (Posts: 635; Member since: 16 Jun 2015)

You are just afraid that Apple implements the stylus better into iOS because Apple has more software competency than Samsung and Xiaomi. Samsung was certainly first in doing the modern stylus implementation into smartphones. But I think it’s time that Samsung gets serious competition in this business. It would only result in better products for everyone interested in such smartphones.

64. tedkord (Posts: 16881; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

No one is afraid of that. We're all old enough to remember Apple Maps.

68. Well-Manicured-Man (Posts: 635; Member since: 16 Jun 2015)

If this is all that you bring up, we should all look forward to Apple‘s version of a stylus for smartphones. We can see already on the iPad with iOS 11 that Apple knows what it’s doing.

96. tedkord (Posts: 16881; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

Nothing special there. You can't even store it in the tablet. Regardless, my point is Apple does make mistakes.

76. L0n3n1nja (Posts: 1497; Member since: 12 Jul 2016)

78. verbalize (Posts: 150; Member since: 03 May 2013)

Just like Samsung maps.. oh wait they dont have there own maps. They use googles map. Android manufacturers are all victims except google phones.

86. AxelFoley (Posts: 529; Member since: 30 May 2017)

So, iphone users don't use Google Maps, too? What about Google itself for searches? Is there an iTube where you watching videos? It looks like Apple is also a victim.

95. trojan_horse (banned) (Posts: 5868; Member since: 06 May 2016)

Really. Dude talks about Samsung being victim of Google all while ignoring Apple who relies on Google services too. Quite ironic.

24. Nine1Sickness (Posts: 882; Member since: 30 Jan 2011)

Yeah, because Samsung and Xaomi invented the stylus.

32. AxelFoley (Posts: 529; Member since: 30 May 2017)

Digitizer....and it's done by Wacom on Samsung. Just like Apple didn't invent touchid but we have to constantly hear they did. Apple's problem (along with their fans) is the years they spent putting it down. Just like they did with the refrigerator and toaster that they called the Surface before they put a keyboard on the ipad pro. It proves some people will buy whatever BS Apple tells them. Apple says the stylus is bad, then it's bad and a "gimmick". Apple says the stylus is good, "well, Samsung didn't invent the stylus."