Pen To Be Extinct In A Decade?

[Bluey]

Microsoft is just a ruthless company that buys up and destroys companies with good ideas.

That applies much more to Apple than MS. To be fair, MS has had some good and original ideas in the past even though the execution of them has been poor, hence it's not taken off with the general public.

With Apple it's the reverse - no ideas except those of other companies which they buy(or other lol) and then add their own 'sauce' so that the public thinks it's super attractive and original.

Edited May 22, 2017 by Bluey

[ParramattaPaul]

I'll offer a parallel here.

 

Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) has been around since at least 1980 as memory serves. Olivetti was making a complete system (mainframe, work station and software package) back then as memory serves. Now, AutoCAD and others have software that can do 2D and 3D drafting that can run on almost any laptop with no worries. CAD allows a draftsman, draughtsman, or drafter (choose the title you prefer) to produce drawings in a small fraction of the time it takes to produce the same drawing manually with pencil, pen and ink. Yet, I see no shortage of manual drafting tools when I go into art supply shops or peruse an art supply catalogue.

 

The point is, fountain pens didn't make dip pens vanish into antiquity. They are still made and used. Nor have fountains pens disappeared with that advent of Biros. I expect pens and paper will still be around long after we have gone to our eternal reward.

[lurcho]

I'll offer a parallel here.

 

Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) has been around since at least 1980 as memory serves. Olivetti was making a complete system (mainframe, work station and software package) back then as memory serves. Now, AutoCAD and others have software that can do 2D and 3D drafting that can run on almost any laptop with no worries. CAD allows a draftsman, draughtsman, or drafter (choose the title you prefer) to produce drawings in a small fraction of the time it takes to produce the same drawing manually with pencil, pen and ink. Yet, I see no shortage of manual drafting tools when I go into art supply shops or peruse an art supply catalogue.

 

The point is, fountain pens didn't make dip pens vanish into antiquity. They are still made and used. Nor have fountains pens disappeared with that advent of Biros. I expect pens and paper will still be around long after we have gone to our eternal reward.

 

That's an excellent point about dip pens.