(Image credit: Future) "If you see a stylus, they blew it." Those words came out of Steve Jobs' mouth during the unveiling of the very first iPhone almost 20 years ago. I'm coming at you today to tell you that Jobs was wrong, though not in the way you might think. "Stylus" isn't a dirty word, and smartphones can gain a lot from them. But that doesn't mean phones should be overly reliant on their own miniature fake pens. The year 2007 was a very different world for smartphones, and the idea of offering a device that only offered touchscreen controls was considered madness by many people. It was a world where phones were built around imposing physical keyboards, a lot of buttons and the tickety-tack of the stylus as suit-clad businessmen went about their day. Late '00s touchscreens were absolute garbage by modern standards, and Apple was aiming to influence the hearts and minds of consumers with its multi-touch displays.…