I always wonder… Samsung has been in this for a long, long, LOOOOONG time and they’re essentially the Gods of smartphone styluses (stylii?).

So, would we ever see such a level of integration?

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I’ll be honest, having used lots of devices without and a few with, I am firmly in the “neat, but so what”-camp.

    And I would surmise that this is overall how other companies see this: They could compete, but there’s just no reason to. Samsung doesn’t sell their phones and tablets because they have S-pens, they sell them because they’re the Apple of Android phones, they sell brand name for a sizable markup. That’s a soft goal to compete with, and hence not a good one to go after with one specific hardware feature.

    Unless there’s some incentive, say a new mode of UI interaction that is entirely based on stylus interactions, I can’t see other manufacturers being interested in it at all.

    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      That’s a fair enough assessment. But like with Matter, the open source IoT platform, maybe the existing devices start supporting this?

      I hope it works out for our benefit.

      • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Haven’t you read about the recent Matter events? They went with WiFi instead of just a protocol and they are discussing who owns the matter network in your home. Now the small companies are whining that Matter is becoming yet another standard.

        XKCD all over again.

        • cole@lemdro.idEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          This is false. Matter can run over multiple protocols and does in fact have its own called Thread which is based on Zigbee