OEMs, just forget about the capacitive stylus already

The stylus has had a pretty traumatic life. It was a necessary tool back in the beginning of the smartphone and PDA era, as mobile operating systems weren’t designed with stubby fingertips in mind. Rather, buttons, soft keyboards, and entire UIs were fixated beneath resistive touch screens, which didn’t discriminate between a user’s fleshy digits or retractable pen tips.Quite literally, you could use just about any ol’ object as a stylus, so long as it was strong enough to squeeze the protective plastic coating and digitizer together. The finer the point, the ...

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