Timeline for Touchscreen devices: why did the stylus fall out of favor?
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| May 4, 2014 at 21:55 | comment | added | Danny Varod | Because it kept falling out of peoples hands/devices and getting lost. :-) | |
| May 4, 2014 at 2:09 | answer | added | user47629 | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 4, 2014 at 0:37 | history | edited | Nubok |
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| May 3, 2014 at 23:06 | vote | accept | Nubok | ||
| May 3, 2014 at 2:31 | answer | added | DocSalvager | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 23:44 | answer | added | rybo111 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 23:03 | comment | added | Christian Chapman | Galaxy Note and LG Optimus devices are immensely popular stylus devices. | |
| May 2, 2014 at 19:55 | comment | added | user43037 | Presumably because playing angry-whatever-the-current-fad-is with a stylus would wreck the screen... | |
| May 2, 2014 at 18:45 | comment | added | Chairman Meow | it's easy to lose your stylus, it's hard to lose your finger | |
| May 2, 2014 at 16:32 | answer | added | nobody | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 13:31 | answer | added | Alvin Wong | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 12:17 | answer | added | iFreilicht | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 11:13 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | While I don't think styluses have entirely fallen out of favour, or that finger input is always preferrable, why of all devices should navigation systems (used especially in very mobile and dynamic contexts, with limited possibility to unpack anything such as a stylus) rely on a stylus? | |
| May 2, 2014 at 10:36 | comment | added | Chris H | It's partly a resistive vs capacitive touchscreen issue: capacitive screen (which open up the possibility of multitouch) are better at locating the centre of where you touch than resistive, which require pressure. Making precision more important. Also the older resistive devices tended to do a lot on a small screen, meaning that buttons had to be small (or go through multiple levels of menus) if you wanted anything other than buttons on the screen. I actually liked the UI in PalmOS, it looks horribly cramped and dated but once you got used to it was quick to use. | |
| May 2, 2014 at 9:04 | answer | added | bobobobo | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 6:14 | comment | added | DA01 | Nintendo devices are still stylus-driven as well...and given the popularity of styli for products like the iPad, I don't know that I'd agree they've gone out of style. | |
| May 2, 2014 at 1:10 | comment | added | Grant | They haven't falling completely out of favor. I chose my current phone (Samsung Galaxy Note II) specifically because it has a stylus. A very well functioning one at that. Great for when I need to run remote desktop from my phone, or make a diagram of something. | |
| May 2, 2014 at 0:14 | answer | added | Michael Lai♦ | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 0:07 | answer | added | Kit Grose | timeline score: 17 | |
| May 1, 2014 at 23:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/462017499094339584 | ||
| May 1, 2014 at 21:31 | history | edited | Charles Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2014 at 21:17 | answer | added | Francis Pelland | timeline score: 1 | |
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| May 1, 2014 at 21:01 | answer | added | Anindya Basu | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 1, 2014 at 20:54 | history | asked | Nubok | CC BY-SA 3.0 |