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Larger iPad could come with stylus

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20 January 2015

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs didn’t like the idea of a stylus for mobile devices, famously decrying, “if you see a stylus, they [the developer] blew it.” The post-Jobs Apple may have a different view on the stylus, according to one analyst.

Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities says Apple is likely to release a stylus in the spring to complement the long-rumoured 12.9″ iPad Pro. Kuo, who is reputed to have deep contacts within Apple’s supply chain, based his analysis on Apple’s patent filings and his own research, according to Apple Insider.

Although Kuo’s report is well within the rumour zone, an Apple-made stylus isn’t all that crazy and doesn’t seem impossible for even the 9.7″ iPad. The iPad has always been a popular device for the workplace, where greater amounts of handwriting or drawing may occur. Its popularity as a business device is poised to grow along with its computing power. Apple’s partnership with IBM to build enterprise-specific apps is also likely to increase the iPad’s presence in the corporate world.

Kuo says the first iteration of the Apple stylus will be a fairly standard writing and pointing implement that would be charged via a Lightning connector. Advanced features, like 3D handwriting using a built-in gyroscope and accelerometer, would come in future models, Kuo says. 3D handwriting would enable you to write in the air and have the data sent to the iPad.

Given that a stylus could jack up the price of the purported iPad Pro, Kuo expects the device to be an add-on at first. That could change in future models, however, especially if the developer community takes to creating iOS apps with the purported stylus in mind.

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