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Wacom tablets are special purpose input devices, like Kensington trackballs or 3Dconnecxion SpaceMouse. What is needed is an open source Windows driver.

Possible common choices for pen technologies are {Wacom EMR, Wacom AES, Microsoft Pen Protocol(formerly N-trig), Synaptic(unnamed?), Apple Pencil}. Apple Pencil and AES/MPP are well received on lower ends as well as for non-graphic purposes(especially note taking, where EMR is near unusable), so wallet voting can happen in markets for those, but nothing had replaced Wacom EMR in professional spaces if I understand right. That's why the company gets to keep pathetic 32", 4K, non-HDR, 310 nits, 1000:1 contrast, 98% Adobe RGB display for 4 grand as their absolute flagship product. Apple Pro Display XDR has same size of 32", but is 6K XDR(HDR), with up to 1000 nits brightness, has 1mil:1 contrast, has P3 wide color support, for 5 grand.

Also I think it's worth considering how or where Wacom got this idea. As Wacom EMR pen market used to be a very stagnating space with zero competition until it had been incorporated into 1st- and 2nd-gen Surface only to be replaced by N-trig on Surface 3 onwards, I think it could be argued that it was that influx of capital that caused them realize they could "modernize" this way.




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