This was the question he was asking Steve Jobs in 2007 when he was the first important CEO to say that styluses for smartphones are stupid, the statement remains as true as it can be at the moment even though the diagonal of the screens has grown substantially.
Yesterday Apple presented iPad Pro si Apple Pencil, his stylus specially created for the tablet with a 12.9 inch screen, and some began to mock what Steve Jobs said in 2007 and what Apple is doing in 2015 with its oversized tablet.
Leaving aside the fact that technology has evolved at a rapid pace in 8 years, those who make such an irony do not take very seriously the fact that Steve Jobs was talking about smartphones with screens of 3.5 inches or smaller and now we are talking about a tablet with a 12.9 inch screen.
For those who cannot make a short calculation, we are talking about a difference of 9.4 inches between the screen sizes of the two types of devices, and a stylus on a tablet with such a large screen is perfect not only for controlling interface elements from certain edges , but also for drawing or writing.
Yes, it's stupid to bother with a stylus on a 3.x, 4.x or 5.x inch screen, but on a 12.9 inch screen a stylus can be a necessity, not just an accessory imposed by the manufacturer, and here is the difference between what Steve Jobs said in 2007 and what we have now.
Apple Pencil for iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus would have been stupid and the irony would have been deserved, but when it comes to iPad Pro we are talking about different things.
