Apple iPhone `Subsidized' by Cingular, Says Who?

[Jesús Díaz Blanco]

> Sounds to me like an attempt to justify the iPhone's (perceived)  
> lack of a stylus by saying that inputting with fingers is "more  
> natural"(?)

I agree with Nils on this one. There's a reason why humans have been  
using pencils and fountain pens to draw and write for a very long  
time. The keyboard is faster for some people (me included) but still,  
writing and drawing on paper is the most accurate, fastest and most  
natural way to communicate graphically. The stylus in one form or  
another, since mesopotamian and sumerian clay tablets and egyptian  
papyrus, has been satisfying this need extremely successfully for  
thousands of years. I think that's why Matt perceives the iPhone more  
as a "viewing" device than a "data input" one. It does both, but the  
viewing and data manipulation seems better suited for the finger  
pointing than for input.

Now, as implemented by smartphones everywhere, the modern, too small,  
too painful to use and too inaccurate stylus sucks, and I don't  
wonder why The Steve hates them. Me too. My Wacom Intuos, on the  
other side, comes with a very nice, comfortable pen that is a  
pleasure to use. My desk has a few Mont Blanc, which I rarely use  
anymore except as my new role of husband of an english girl (funnily  
enough, it looks from here that brits must be some of the few people  
in the planet to still use mail for letters and postcards).

Is there any pen that can simulate the finger touch?

j.
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