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Is the stylus making a comeback? I think we will see a lot more devices with both finger and pen input in the future.
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That said, there's still a lot of need for a stylus. Yes, interacting with a UI by using your finger is intimate and even natural feeling, but our clumsy sausage fingers just don't have the fidelity for finer things. AoD's note is a perfect example of that.
Notes, writing, drawing, painting -- they're all things that benefit from using a stylus on a tablet.
See also: www.flickr.com/photos/maximum_cabbage/4349681904/
That said, there's still a lot of need for a stylus. Yes, interacting with a UI by using your finger is intimate and even natural feeling, but our clumsy sausage fingers just don't have the fidelity for finer things. AoD's note is a perfect example of that.
Notes, writing, drawing, painting -- they're all things that benefit from using a stylus on a tablet.
See also: www.flickr.com/photos/maximum_cabbage/4349681904/
Agreed.
My company uses tabletPCs for invoicing, etc, so we need to capture signatures and such. I could see us (and probably lots of the other companies) moving to a non-windows tablet platform as long as a proper stylus is available, even if it is used JUST for signatures.
One of our vendors was using windows tablets for their web-based product that is used to present info to customers and requires a signature at some point. They got it all working in safari and started rolling out iPads and told people to sign "with their finger." Customers didn't like it at all...so they scrapped it and went back to tabletPCs.
I would have told them to try the styluses you can buy that have the special tip for use on a capacitive touch screen and MAYBE that would have worked out, but nobody asked me :)
In any case, a wacom-style stylus with a hard tip works much more pen-on-paper-ish and I think people are more comfortable using such things on electronic devices.
My company uses tabletPCs for invoicing, etc, so we need to capture signatures and such. I could see us (and probably lots of the other companies) moving to a non-windows tablet platform as long as a proper stylus is available, even if it is used JUST for signatures.
One of our vendors was using windows tablets for their web-based product that is used to present info to customers and requires a signature at some point. They got it all working in safari and started rolling out iPads and told people to sign "with their finger." Customers didn't like it at all...so they scrapped it and went back to tabletPCs.
I would have told them to try the styluses you can buy that have the special tip for use on a capacitive touch screen and MAYBE that would have worked out, but nobody asked me :)
In any case, a wacom-style stylus with a hard tip works much more pen-on-paper-ish and I think people are more comfortable using such things on electronic devices.
At the place where I work we just went to a system that requires our customers to sign an iPhone. Most were annoyed by fingering their signatures. So I ordered a capacitive stylus. It was like night and day. A couple have even asked where they can get something similar for their iPhones. Many still have problems, so I guess it's not as intuitive as an active digitizer.
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I'll be damned if it doesn't come back. We stopped drawing in the dirt with our fingers a long time ago. For pushing and swiping, fingers are great. But when it comes to expressing ourselves (e.g. writing and drawing) pen-like input is mo' better. I guess the problem was finding the best digital experience to do that. I think the reason why we see more devices now is because companies are starting to feel confident in their solutions to better achieve these experiences. That plus companies other than Apple are starting to make devices that take non-traditional computer input (mouse/keyboard).
Me, personally, I'm curious about the NoteSlate. I'd also like myself a Wacom Cintiq.
Me, personally, I'm curious about the NoteSlate. I'd also like myself a Wacom Cintiq.
I would say that the stylus certainly has more potential than it did a year ago.
Especially with creative minds thinking up things like this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/1004382302/more-real-...
Especially with creative minds thinking up things like this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/1004382302/more-real-...
Well I would say the stylus certainly still has a place with tablets for various applications. I would just like to say how much I hope that this new resurgence of stylus use that maybe Microsoft will rethink its decision to scrape the Courier. I was really excited watching those videos about the Courier. If MS wants to really make a splash in the tablet market I would think they need to first make a finger/tablet friendly OS on par with Honeycomb and iOS and then differentiate itself from the competition with some amazing applications using Courier and maybe throw some Surface tech in there too. But that is a wild dream that will most likely not come true because MS seems to always be steps behind the competition on everything and scrape ideas that bring a lot of originality and potential to the table. However I can see some interesting uses for stylus’ in the future as tech advances and creative minds get to work.
The Stylus is a necessity unless you just want a toy. Handwriting recognition is also important. Its all things MS wanted to do but failed to do so well.
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