iPadOS "math notes" brings some spreadsheet/Calca mechanics to handwriting: https://www.youtube.com/live/RXeOiIDNNek?si=D0I3FnVdzoCgV8em&t=2790 Oh, and they even added Bret Victor style variable "scrubbing". (Desktop also got builtin Math Notes, minus handwriting, briefly flashed 51:57 — looks very much like Calca.io / Soulver / NoteCalc etc.?) So, are we "Magic Ink" yet? (I'm not so much thinking of Bret Victor's essay as Ink&Switch's experiments like https://www.inkandswitch.com/inkbase/, CrossCut & Untangle ...) On one hand nothing revolutionary, spreadsheets had much more power for decades. And yet a solid chunk of useful functionality is starting to move into taken-for-granted "this is just how futuristic paper naturally works" territory 👏. I expect long term it might make such "what-if" explorations accessible¹ to more people, and more importantly prepare people for more complex interactions on top? ¹ well, once/IF it waters down to lower-end hardware. Good-enough stylus tech remains expensive enough to be niche, not evenly distributed 😞

see also what I've been building these last few days. there's so much to explore here i just wish people would pick it up and do something https://x.com/TodePond/status/1800475902155149629

Good-enough stylus tech remains expensive enough to be niche, not evenly distributed

Samsung Tab S6 lite has pretty decent Wacom stylus

Sure, it exists, but a simple way to measure it is: when you go buy a device, which fraction of them have a digitizer at all? Slightly varies by form factor, but only a minority. So there must be non-negligble price and/or screen engineering tradeoffs... I shopped for a laptop recently, and even knowing my wife could use a backup device with stylus for lectures, I gave up on digitizer models because the only options with the specs wanted for myself were 30% more expensive. It wont call it "evinly distributed" until majority of devices people already have include some digitizer, and it's just a matter of getting a stylus. (Capacitive styluses - even with pressure side channel like SonarPen + glove to simulate palm rejection - are just not good enough for significant amount of writing.)