When the original iPhone was released in January 2007, Apple founder Steve Jobs once said that fingers were the most natural input method and believed that the stylus popular in smartphones at the time wasn’t good enough. Unexpectedly, the latest reveal refers to the iPhone 14 series released in September – there was reportedly a corresponding stylus launched at the same time, but Apple stalled the entire plan at the last minute.
Crash before publishing
According to news from Chinese tech blog @Mr力, Apple originally planned to launch a stylus called Maker at the September conference, and the estimated price is around US$49 (equivalent to HK$383). Maker uses capacitive touch technology, which doesn’t have a pressure-sensitive feature and doesn’t require batteries, but uses an integrated chip to get power from the screen. Originally, the Maker was going to be the first official stylus to support the iPhone, but Apple decided to drop it before release.
More than a million titles are scrapped
If the tech blogger’s revelations are true, Apple had produced over a million Makers at the time, but all of them were scrapped after it decided to ax the project. After the relevant content was reposted by another tech blog @DuanRui on Twitter, it is unknown whether it was due to pressure from Apple or some other reason.
source:9to5mac
