I've been thinking about the keyboard issue, and I think that no matter what, the ergonomics aren't there for a keyboard, hardware or otherwise in fact. It's re

I've been thinking about the keyboard issue, and I think that no matter what, the ergonomics aren't there for a keyboard, hardware or otherwise in fact. It's really inconvenient to type on a 10" tablet. It's almost impossible to do one handed (unlike the iPhone, which while slow one-handed, is very usable). Add to the ergonomics issue the fact that keyboards are not very useful for languages like Chinese, and you have to ask if there isn't another way that they might do input. Apple already has tech on the new macbooks that lets you draw Chinese characters on the touchpad with your finger. My bet is that they repurpose that for other languages and include it in the tablet. Handwriting recognition was a failure with the Newton, but I suspect modern predictive text input can sort out some of the issues that plagued that early tech. I have no inside information on any of this, but it just feels like something Apple would do, knowing how much Jobs hates buttons, especially physical ones.