Apple is mulling something that its late founder Steve Jobs had outright rejected — adding a stylus to its iPhone. Jobs never hesitated to rant how much he hates styluses, famously saying almost a decade ago: “God gave us 10 styluses. Let’s not invent another.” But sources say Apple engineers have recently been working on a new iPhone that comes with a digital pen.



“Apple is preparing to launch the phone as early as 2019,” an industry source told The Investor on condition of anonymity. “It is also in talks with a couple of stylus makers for a partnership.” It has been widely rumored for long that Apple is considering deploying digital pens for its phones and other mobile devices, having filed a slew of related technology patents over the past years. In 2016, the firm debuted the Apple Pencil stylus for the iPad Pro tablets. It has also continued introducing new handwriting functions for the iOS operating system such as Notes and Makeup tools.

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