I always wonder… Samsung has been in this for a long, long, LOOOOONG time and they’re essentially the Gods of smartphone styluses (stylii?).
So, would we ever see such a level of integration?
I always wonder… Samsung has been in this for a long, long, LOOOOONG time and they’re essentially the Gods of smartphone styluses (stylii?).
So, would we ever see such a level of integration?
I’ll be honest, having used lots of devices without and a few with, I am firmly in the “neat, but so what”-camp.
And I would surmise that this is overall how other companies see this: They could compete, but there’s just no reason to. Samsung doesn’t sell their phones and tablets because they have S-pens, they sell them because they’re the Apple of Android phones, they sell brand name for a sizable markup. That’s a soft goal to compete with, and hence not a good one to go after with one specific hardware feature.
Unless there’s some incentive, say a new mode of UI interaction that is entirely based on stylus interactions, I can’t see other manufacturers being interested in it at all.
That’s a fair enough assessment. But like with Matter, the open source IoT platform, maybe the existing devices start supporting this?
I hope it works out for our benefit.
Haven’t you read about the recent Matter events? They went with WiFi instead of just a protocol and they are discussing who owns the matter network in your home. Now the small companies are whining that Matter is becoming yet another standard.
XKCD all over again.
This is false. Matter can run over multiple protocols and does in fact have its own called Thread which is based on Zigbee
Okay. I have no idea about how Matter works tbh so I’m just gonna say Yay and move on.