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Will USI products ever become as responsive and/or as feature packed as the S-Pen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Okay. I have no idea about how Matter works tbh so I'm just gonna say Yay and move on.