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Seems like this company should be an insta-cquire for Apple any day now. They display Apple's core values more than any other company I know (outside of Apple).

Since it's Bluetooth it seems to be a great way to get probably close to 100% accurate palm detection which has always been the most annoying part of stylus usage on iPad for me. Genius.

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Isnt't it ironic that the cofounders actually came out of Microsoft R&D. They were among the Courier team, for those who don't know. Courier was a pre-iPad tablet device with amazing untapped potential.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpftPSuXe4

Sigh, and now it's one of select demo apps in every Apple store. It alone almost made me buy an iPad. Way to go Bill Gates shutting down Courier, well done.

Sorry, are you saying that had billg not shut down Courier, Microsoft would have made the iPad?

Its rather like the Winklevoss twins - if Microsoft could have invented the iPad, they would have invented the iPad.

No, they're saying had billg not should down Courier, Microsoft would have made Courier.

The Courier looked far more like it would've found an actual market than Surface RT.

The question is really how much of what leaked was functional versus what they hoped it was going to do.

If you look just at the journal parts of the video, the parts Paper can duplicate, most of them are not in Paper at all. Paper is just a special type of drawing app.

That's just a concept video. Paper can't do most of what is shown in the journal parts of the video, so I'm guessing they were no where close to making Courier a reality.

On the other hand, Apple is surprisingly anti-stylus. Perhaps they feel it represents a barrier between the user and machine, or maybe they feel it differentiates the iPad from the stylus-based tablets that came before.

Regardless, styluses seem to be one of the few tablet accessories that you can buy in almost any electronics store except an Apple store.