Some were saying the same about pencil.

wtf is gimmicky about a pen for a tablet?

Jobs was completely against them. He considered them to be a gimmick. Now the Apple Pencil is considered an important accessory to the iPad.

https://qz.com/1575481/would-steve-jobs-like-the-ipad-today/

>The first is that Steve Jobs unabashedly hated styluses. When introducing the first iPhone in 2007, the Apple founder said, “Who wants a stylus? You have to get ’em, put ’em away, you lose ’em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let’s not use a stylus.”

https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/10/technology/apple-pencil-ste...