“Who wants a stylus, yuck!” Steve Jobs exclaimed as he was announcing the very first iPhone back in January 2007. Sixteen years later, that’s still true, to a point. The Apple Pencil has been around since 2015, and it’s time to see it work on the bigger iPhones, as well as iPads.
The thought of using a pointer on a phone has been something Apple has outright refused to do in the past after its failure of the Newton, while its rivals, like Samsung, have embraced it with devices like the S Pen. While older devices, such as PDAs from Windows Mobile days, embraced styluses, they were easy to lose, and unreliable when trying to select something on the screen.
