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Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by warfangle »

Yaggo wrote: post #3

Fully agree with Jobs. Hand writing recognization may have sounded fine idea, and is rather easy to properly implement, but the thing is that hand-writing is dying skill. Although I learnt to hand-write in childhood and did it for 15 years, nowdays I absolutely prefer typewriting (keyboard). My one-yeard-old daughter will be native typewriter. Speed recognization doesn't currently work (good enough), and if it did, s…

There's one reason I'd want a stylus on the iPad (or any other tablet device), and it's not for handwriting.

It's for sketching. Diagrams, wireframes, or just a squirrel in the park. Give me a simple sketching program - think Painter Light. Let it synch to a repository on my desktop. Let me use the tablet as an actual tablet via bluetooth when I'm actually at my desk.

I would probably pay bank for that.

Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by lutorm »

yequalsx wrote: post #4
Yaggo wrote: post #3

Fully agree with Jobs. Hand writing recognization may have sounded fine idea, and is rather easy to properly implement, but the thing is that hand-writing is dying skill. Although I learnt to hand-write in childhood and did it for 15 years, nowdays I absolutely prefer typewriting (keyboard). My one-yeard-old daughter will be native typewriter. Speed recognization doesn't currently work (good enough), and if it did, s…

I would love it if it had digital ink. Handwriting recognition means nothing to me but the ability to digitally add handwritten notes would make me buy the iPad. I was disappointed with the cancellation of the Courier. If the iPad had digital ink and the ability to digitally markup documents with ink it would be the killer educational device.

You can do handwritten notes on the iPad, I've seen it done. A coworker uses iAnnotate and a stylus to make handwritten annotations in pdf files. Looks like it works pretty well.

The thing is that typing works fine for text. But as soon as you want to draw a diagram or a formula or whatever, you're way better off freehand.

Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by tesseract »

sethg wrote: post #10
Yaggo wrote: post #3

Fully agree with Jobs. Hand writing recognization may have sounded fine idea, and is rather easy to properly implement, but the thing is that hand-writing is dying skill. Although I learnt to hand-write in childhood and did it for 15 years, nowdays I absolutely prefer typewriting (keyboard). My one-yeard-old daughter will be native typewriter. Speed recognization doesn't currently work (good enough), and if it did, s…

Do handwriting interfaces have more traction in China, Japan, and Korea?

For what it's worth, the iPhone has one there.

Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by tibbon »

One of the better comments by Jobs, "It’s really true, if you’ve got a bunch of rich guys who can afford their third computer — you know, they’ve got a desktop, they’ve got a portable and now they’re gonna have one of these to read with… that’s your market!"

I've got my iPhone, I've got my Macbook Pro, I've got my gaming systems (and we have a few Kindles floating around the house)... I need the iPad because?

Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by anonjon »

I just bought a $50 dollar peripheral for my computer specifically so that I could have a stylus, write handwritten notes and sketches.

The issue is that if you have to have a stylus, it becomes a pain, because you are sitting there awkwardly hunched trying to scratch out handwriting. (elbows in, hunched over squinting at the screen).

Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by froo »

warfangle wrote: post #11
Yaggo wrote: post #3

Fully agree with Jobs. Hand writing recognization may have sounded fine idea, and is rather easy to properly implement, but the thing is that hand-writing is dying skill. Although I learnt to hand-write in childhood and did it for 15 years, nowdays I absolutely prefer typewriting (keyboard). My one-yeard-old daughter will be native typewriter. Speed recognization doesn't currently work (good enough), and if it did, s…

There's one reason I'd want a stylus on the iPad (or any other tablet device), and it's not for handwriting. It's for sketching. Diagrams, wireframes, or just a squirrel in the park. Give me a simple sketching program - think Painter Light. Let it synch to a repository on my desktop. Let me use the tablet as an actual tablet via bluetooth when I'm actually at my desk. I would probably pay bank for that.

You can get stylus' for apple's touch devices, I recently ordered one for my iPad.

It's called a Pogo Sketch

I plan to use my iPad for doodling and whatnot of a night time in bed, aswell as reading and general media consumption - its really my "bed time" screen device.

Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by JMiao »

tibbon wrote: post #15

One of the better comments by Jobs, "It’s really true, if you’ve got a bunch of rich guys who can afford their third computer — you know, they’ve got a desktop, they’ve got a portable and now they’re gonna have one of these to read with… that’s your market!" I've got my iPhone, I've got my Macbook Pro, I've got my gaming systems (and we have a few Kindles floating around the house)... I need the iPad because?

it's better at most non-geeky things than your macbook pro. i know because i own both.

Re: Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)

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Post by stcredzero »

iamclovin wrote: post #6

I would think that a stylus would be awesome on the iPad for drawing applications (or even prototyping apps such as Omnigraffle). I haven't used an iPad yet but I imagine drawing with my index finger to be a little clumsy.

Yes, but for now it's too close to the mouse. Multitouch needs to mature first.
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