Zaap
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- Jun 12, 2008
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I agree with a lot of what you said, but for a long time a huge problem with styluses has been wacom. That company has a lot of the patents needed to make the tech work right locked up, and they've been pretty ruthless about enforcing them.
It's way expensive to add wacom tech to a device (for a majority of consumers it's not something they are clamoring for anyway) and the alternatives to wacom that don't infringe their patents yet still work anywhere near has good have taken a long ass time to develop. Personally, I still don't feel there's anything quite as good as a wacom digitizer on a tablet, nothing I've tried anyway.
It may have seemed a no-brainer, but from a business standpoint and the costs of licensing vs. the pay off (honestly, for most consumers, absolutely nil) it hasn't at all been an obvious move.
It's way expensive to add wacom tech to a device (for a majority of consumers it's not something they are clamoring for anyway) and the alternatives to wacom that don't infringe their patents yet still work anywhere near has good have taken a long ass time to develop. Personally, I still don't feel there's anything quite as good as a wacom digitizer on a tablet, nothing I've tried anyway.
It may have seemed a no-brainer, but from a business standpoint and the costs of licensing vs. the pay off (honestly, for most consumers, absolutely nil) it hasn't at all been an obvious move.