I said that it worked well back then. I didn&#x27;t say anything about the mass market. So I didn&#x27;t contradict myself. I think that you skim-read my post ;)<p>But, on the subject of the &quot;mass market&quot;...<p>What Apple&#x2F;Jobs did was build an awesome device for media consumption.<p>Up until then we&#x27;d been talking about the PDA - a productivity device. It needed a physical keyboard and stylus input to make it &quot;productive&quot;.<p>The best PDA up until then was the Palm Pilot - it has exceptional writing recognition - if you spent two hours learning their alphabet. It works for email, spreadsheets. Battery life was excellent. Most people I know used it with a fold-out keyboard when traveling.<p>Apple realized that 99% of the time you&#x27;ll using your phone to play games, read, listen to music or watch videos. Their touch screen was fantastic - it took just seconds to learn how to use it. Sure, writing emails was a pain (even with the smart keyboards), but you&#x27;d only do that rarely.<p>So yeah, you&#x27;re kind of right: no-one whose main use-case is content consumption is going to want to use a stylus. For content creators however a well-implemented stylus is a big sell.<p>That&#x27;s why Microsoft are throwing so much weight behind the Surface Pro, and it&#x27;s also the main reason people are buying it.