Apple received a patent for a new stylus - a subject that Steve Jobs is considered a sign of bad design. The founder of the corporation has repeatedly stated that the electronic pen for tablet or smartphone - a sign of failure. "God gave us ten styluses - let's not invent another" - he said.
Patent Apple, unveiled this week, the US Patent and Trademark Office US, describes the technology of interaction between the pen and the electronic device, providing the possibility of implementing feedback.
According to the plan of the company, the sensor can determine the position of the stylus on the screen, allowing depending on that dynamically change some display settings. In particular, when a certain pressing the stylus changing the thickness and color carried out on the screen line.
A total of 32 Apple has patented technology in one way or another connected with the stylus, with most of the patents was obtained after Steve Jobs died in 2011. This, according to the expert Jack Perchera of UBS, suggests that the stylus can be released with the iPad Air Plus - Tablet PC with 12.2-inch screen.
Speaking at the 2007 conference Macworld, where he first introduced the iPhone, Jobs said: "Who needs a stylus? They must get, clean, they are always lost - muck shorter. Stylus not wanted. " Later, in an interview with the author of his biography, Walter Isaacson, Jobs said: "As soon as you decide to include in the design of the stylus, you spoiled everything." That dislike of Jobs to the stylus as an input device led to the iPhone touchscreen appeared - an idea borrowed later by other manufacturers.