Apple Files Patent for Stylus, Despite Steve Jobs

apple stylusSteve Jobs once said, “It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager… they blew it. Users shouldn’t ever have to think about it.”

However optimistic Job’s design intent, many users, and especially iPad users, are especially attached to their stylus. Now, Apple is finally paying attention.

The company’s latest patent filing reveals a complex stylus that comes with a wide variety of functions: an accelerometer, light beams, an extendable nib with varying thickness, multi-stranded tip, and so on.

While the patent does not indicate an actual product in the foreseeable future, once does wonder if the design team at Apple will be able to ignore Job’s design prognosis.

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Excerpt:

In one instance, the user may vary the length of the nib exposed outside of a body of the stylus, which may vary an output of the stylus as it interacts...

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