“Who wants a stylus? You have to get them and put them away and you lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus.”

—  Steve Jobs

Introducing The iPhone At MacWorld 2007 (January 9, 2007)
2005-09
Context: Well, what we're going to do is get rid of all these buttons, and just make a giant screen—a giant screen. Now, how are we going to communicate (with) this? We don't want to carry around a mouse, right? So what are we going to do? Oh, a stylus, right? We're going to use a stylus. No. —No. Who wants a stylus? You have to get them and put them away and you lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus.

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