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Plaupius on 14 March 2008
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Onyxmeth said:
reverie said:
Plaupius said:

So, you could use a stylus with iPhone, it just needs to conduct electricity and not ruin the glass surface.


Wow, that's intriguing. I didn't know that would be possible. Although then the problem with optional peripherals comes into play. You need to make people go out and buy this thing, otherwise there won't be games supporting it. And without games supporting it, nobody will go out and buy that thing. So what you need to jump-start the stylus is either EA or Activision or Apple themselves pushing it.

Just bundle the stylus itself with any game that requires one and problem solved.

 


Exactly. I can't imagine the stylus actually costing much. The problem, however, is that the intended way of distributing iPhone games is through iTunes, hence no physical package and it's damn hard to download a stylus without a Star Trek replicator at hand  So in the end, you have to buy it separately, but seeing as there is an endless supply of 3rd party accessories for iPods, this shouldn't be such a big problem. I wonder if anybody actually is making them already?

Edit: Well, whaddya know, there are already choices available, though the prices seem a bit steep: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/pogo-stylus-tickles-your-iphone-with-more-precision-328847.php and http://tapright.igiki.com/iPhone_Stylus_TapRight.html (if that link doesn't work, with for me it doesn, there's info at http://www.iphoneworld.ca/news/2007/08/28/tapright-iphone-stylus-shipping-today/ ).