#dontoversimplify Steve Jobs was wrong

Enough with the revisionist history — Steve Jobs asserted no one wants/needs a stylus.

Steve was wrong — he wanted everyone to believe they didn’t want to use a tablet as a digital pen/paper replacement. It is perhaps the most seminal failure of the iPhad.  He even had a wheelbarrow of technology in the space — later generations of the Newton had it right, but he didn’t create it, and he killed it.  Worse — the limitations of the crappy capacitive display technology he settled for are solvable with software, but someone had a “better” idea: tell them they don’t want it.  Apple could have pushed tablets out that were more than glorified eReader/game slates a decade before the iPhad.  #mistake