I think people get this idea that Jobs shaped Apple by dumbing things down, which is not true. For example OS X shipped from the beginning with a Unix shell, which is way harder to use than GUI; this is something that Jobs added to the Mac. But it’s hidden in an app and probably most folks will never interact with it at all. It’s like the deep end of a swimming pool: there if you want to do some specialized stuff, but anyone can ignore it and still have a great time in the pool.

The idea of a stylus for drawing on the iPad must have been there from the start because Wacom was already financially successful and a popular Mac accessory. Their Cintiq monitor/drawing tablet predated the iPad by about a decade. Apple’s leadership must have been aware of it.