[dragonwriter]

> In any case what Jobs meant was that the companies that were putting out devices that required a stylus to operate correctly were doing it wrong,

Perhaps in the original iPhone announcement, but Jobs kept repeating anti-stylus lines long after that, when the only current major products with stylus that they could have been referencing were multitouch devices with styluses included but not required.

Just like anything other than the original iPhone (or iPad!) size, everyone in the market doing it was wrong -- until Apple decided they needed to do it, too.