Samsung: Never mind Steve Jobs, let's snap off a piece of stylus biz
Demand for vibrating tool is 'expected to rise' - South Korean firm
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Steve Jobs famously said of tablets: "If it comes with a stylus, you're doing it wrong", but Samsung is betting the vibrating tools will go big and has just bought a 5 per cent stake in stylus-making company Wacom.
Wacom has already made pens for Samsung, and the new investment lays the foundations for more and better styluses catering to a growing market, according to a statement given by Samsung to the Wall Street Journal.
It’s a strategic investment for increased cooperation with the pen solution company [Wacom], to come up with a differentiated and upgraded pen as such demand is expected to rise
Wacom worked with Samsung on the S pen - the stylus that accompanies the Samsung Galaxy Note phablet. Samsung also offers optional pens - C Pens - for its latest Galaxy phones.
Wacom is a Japanese company with a turnover of $697m and yearly profit of $52.51m and its computer input devices - including tablets and pens - are largely used in the design profession. The Samsung collaboration offers the company a mainstream break. ®
COMMENTS
But seriously
I find it faster and easier to annotate MS Office docs in meetings on my 7-year-old Windows XP Tablet PC than any of my iDevice fanboi colleagues clicking away at their virtual on-screen keyboards. Most of us learned to use pencils before anything else (could be different now, I s'pose, but it'll take 20+ years to find out) and I have never understood the use of fat pudgy fingers to scribe on a screen when holding a pen is so intuitive for all ...
Perhaps because Apple can't patent it (prior art) it's by definition not cool enough for creative types?
History in the making
Steve Jobs says styli are wrong
Samsung brings out gadgets with a stylus
Apple panics when popularity of styli is realised
Apple brings out device(s) with stylus, hails it as a revolution
Apple sues Samsung for copying their stylus idea
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