And there is still no handwriting recognition, like my Palm PDA had in 1998. I hate those dinky onscreen keyboards.
Yes, there is. Quite a few 3rd party Apps support handwriting recognition. . . but Apple will never ship one with a loseable stylus. Perhaps you've forgotten, but every one of those PDAs licensed their handwriting recognition from APPLE, who owns the patent rights to it. . . Apple developed it for the first viable PDA, the Newton, for which the term PDA was coined.