Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @08:41AM from the natural-progression dept.

Google has backed an effort to standardise touch-screen styluses so they can be used on many devices. From a report: The Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) was launched, in 2015, to encourage companies to produce styluses that work on rivals' products Dell, Intel, Lenovo, LG and graphics tablet-maker Wacom have all backed the project. However, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung have not. One expert suggested the big brands would keep their proprietary pens. Styluses designed to work with modern touch-screen devices and graphics tablets usually contain sensors to detect pressure, movement and orientation of the pen.

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Re:The nice thing about standards... by Anonymous Coward · 2018-01-31 10:04 · Score: 4, Informative

It is absolutely proprietary. USB is not open and free.
Actually it is open, you can download the spec from here. Also it is free of charge, you can pay for a VID ($5000USD) and you can pay to license the logo ($3500USD) but you can also do as many do and if you need a VID use 0xF055.