Apple Reportedly Considered Going Full Palm Pilot With Its Foldable iPhone

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’s in that person’s hands. Are you picturing a dumb little computer phone thing with a dumb little plastic pen called a stylus? That’s because the Y2K-era turbo dweeb you’re remembering had the predecessor to the smartphone: a Palm Pilot, or perhaps an off-brand “PDA.” Full disclosure here: I desperately wanted a Palm Pilot myself. And look, they still work: Anyway, alongside the foldable iPhone expected to be announced at its event on September 9, Apple is reportedly toying around with taking the world back to the depths of Palm Pilot era nerdiness, because, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple developers have been considering releasing a modified “pencil accessory” to go with it. In other words, it would have a stylus. This is the one thing Steve Jobs didn’t want to happen. 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