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Originally Posted by WillAdams
The stylus is Wacom EMR, w/ very low latency, just no pressure input --- I've used systems w/ no pressure input in the past
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The information posted came from an industry insider whose information has thus far been quite reliable.
Which seems more likely?
- Amazon worked up a complete graphical toolkit to support annotation and interactivity w/ a pointing device
- Amazon stripped a bunch of stuff out of an OS which they were already using which already has support for annotation and interactivity w/ a pointing device and ported their reading application from a simpler OS and added interactive annotation to it
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AFAIK MS had annotation on a version of WFWG 3.11 (For a Grid Tablet) and it's been on NT (Win10 is about ver 7 of NT in reality) and Linux for years. I've still an install disk for NT 4.0 Tablet Edition.
But Handwriting recognition/Conversion has always been an app/program except (maybe on the Newton and) Palm OS, though Palm OS graffiti was letter by letter stylized gestures (I still have a working Palm Z22). I used the Newton once and it didn't really work (Both the Palm and Nebo are hugely better).
I've had stylus on WFWG 3.11, NT and Linux from 1990s. Nebo on Kobo (built in on Sage & Elipsa) and iPad (maybe iPad 2018 and later and even free Nebo does recognition) is the first handwriting recognition I've used that can actually be used to create text notes or stories for PC text input. Presumably it works on suitable Windows and Android with real digitiser styluses. I've not seen any latency issue on the 2020 iPad (I think that's year bought), Sage or Elipsa.
Never seen any with Lenovo X201 laptop Wacom or USB Wacom Bamboo.
Having no pressure sensitivity might have been reasonable if the very first Kindle (2007?) had had annotations and simple drawing app. It's a strange decision in 2022 if true when Samsung Note, iPad, MS Surface, Kobo and others all have about a 1000 levels of sensitivity. It allows for better handwriting recognition and detection of forged signatures.