Apple Reportedly Thought of Going Full Palm Pilot With Its Foldable iPhone

If your reminiscence goes again far sufficient, image the largest dork you knew within the yr 2000. I do know the picture is blurry, however attempt to deal with what’s in that particular person’s arms. Are you picturing a dumb little laptop telephone factor with a dumb little plastic pen known as a stylus? That’s as a result of the Y2K-era turbo dweeb you’re remembering had the predecessor to the smartphone: a Palm Pilot, or maybe an off-brand “PDA.”

Full disclosure right here: I desperately wished a Palm Pilot myself. And look, they nonetheless work:

Anyway, alongside the foldable iPhone anticipated to be introduced at its event on September 9, Apple is reportedly toying round with taking the world again to the depths of Palm Pilot period nerdiness, as a result of, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple builders have been contemplating releasing a modified “pencil accessory” to go together with it. In different phrases, it might have a stylus. This is the one thing Steve Jobs didn’t want to happen.

Gurman is fast to discourage readers from assuming this stylus is definitely going to ship with the foldable iPhone. Nonetheless, his sources say one has positively been developed, however might not truly be launched. Gurman notes {that a} stylus may intervene with the operations of the telephone—flopping out and falling on the ground while you don’t wish to use it, maybe—and it might mark up the fragile folding display screen.

But the Apple Pencil already exists as an iPad accent, and is price shopping for, so this wouldn’t be a heavy elevate for Apple. Gurman says the foldable iPhone pencil accent can be just a little just like the Apple Pencil, however shorter to match the scale of the foldable iPhone. It would follow the aspect of your foldable iPhone with a magnet.

Too dangerous it’d by no means see the sunshine of day. My inside dweeb desires to strive it out.