{"id":1178834,"date":"2026-08-31T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1178834\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:48:15","slug":"apple-reportedly-considered-going-full-palm-pilot-with-its-foldable-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1178834\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Reportedly Considered Going Full Palm Pilot With Its Foldable iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">If your memory goes back far enough, picture the biggest dork you knew in the year 2000. I know the image is blurry, but try to focus on what\u2019s in that person\u2019s hands. Are you picturing a dumb little computer phone thing with a dumb little plastic pen called a stylus? That\u2019s because the Y2K-era turbo dweeb you\u2019re remembering had the predecessor to the smartphone: a <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/happy-tenth-anniversary-pilot-163522\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Pilot<\/a>, or perhaps an off-brand \u201cPDA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure here: I desperately wanted a Palm Pilot myself. And look, they still work:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, alongside the\u00a0foldable iPhone expected to be announced at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its event on September 9<\/a>, Apple is reportedly toying around with taking the world back to the depths of Palm Pilot era nerdiness, because, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-08-30\/john-ternus-management-team-apple-watch-series-12-foldable-iphone-apple-pencil-mtfvmdyu?srnd=undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman<\/a>, Apple developers have been considering releasing a modified \u201cpencil accessory\u201d to go with it. In other words, it would have a stylus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NwKOHrw9n2c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This is\u00a0the one thing Steve Jobs didn\u2019t want to happen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gurman is quick to discourage readers from assuming this stylus is actually going to ship with the foldable iPhone. Nonetheless, his sources say one has definitely been developed, but may not actually be released. Gurman notes that a stylus might interfere with the operations of the phone\u2014flopping out and falling on the floor when you don\u2019t want to use it, perhaps\u2014and it could mark up the delicate folding screen.<\/p>\n<p>But the Apple Pencil <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-pencil-pro-review-1851474175\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already exists as an iPad accessory, and is worth buying,<\/a> so this wouldn\u2019t be a heavy lift for Apple. Gurman says the foldable iPhone pencil accessory would be a little like the Apple Pencil, but shorter to match the size of the foldable iPhone. It would stick to the side of your foldable iPhone with a magnet.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad it might never see the light of day. My inner dweeb wants to try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If your memory goes back far enough, picture the biggest dork you knew in the year 2000. I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1178835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3159],"tags":[1662,319550,1666,547,319551,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1178834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-apple-pencil","tag-iphone","tag-mobile","tag-palm-pilot","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117189732436599904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}