Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hackers.town/@lindsays" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lindsays</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rubber.social/@dragonarchitect" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dragonarchitect</span></a></span> Granted, I always welcome competition as it makes it easier for people to get started and forces established players to up their game and cut prices.</p><ul><li>So even if one doesn't switch brands it'll force <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/wacom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wacom</span></a> to <em>do better</em>...</li></ul><p>OFC they achieved dominance with both IP &amp; patents as well as providing a very plug &amp; play experience, with basically every creative &amp; engineering software to if not take advantage of it, at least work fine with them.</p><ul><li>Again, I sincerely hope the situation has gotten way better since the last time I looked at an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/XPen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XPen</span></a> device, but back then every competitior to Wacom outside of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> Systems looked jank (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> drivers were barely working Kext|s) and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> support was between <em>"Resistive 1 point touchscreen"</em> and <em>"NOPE!"</em>, so there's that...</li></ul><p>I don't claim my experience to be autoritative, up to date or scientifically backed up (sample size N &lt;200 = not a scientific dataset) and I think it's important that I <em>take a closer look</em>...</p>