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Jet plane emotions; iPad cycles - open vs closed systems
- reggieband 17y agoHe is right. If you want an open system better than the iPad then you can make it. No use complaining that Apple is making a closed system - that is there prerogative. Maybe the year of the Linux desktop should be skipped and those interested should be aiming for the year of the Linux tablet.
- stcredzero 17y agoI have an HP tc1100, and it's fun to use. Windows handwriting recognition is awesome. But Linux could do better, given enough will.
- stcredzero 17y agoEven the supposedly sealed iPad sits close enough to our laps for us want to make something, even if it’s just finger paintings. "Just finger paintings?" I saw a lot of potential in what Brushes is doing. Another HN poster deprecated the finger interface because it wasn't capable of "precision pointing." Any designer worth their salt can think of a way around that in about 30 seconds. (A gesture where you have crosshairs between your fingers, combined with a zoomed-view, much like a sniper scope in a FPS.) There's no reason why a multitouch interface can't subsume most of what we want to do with computers. The last barrier is text input. And a small Bluetooth keyboard like Apple's seems like a dandy solution to me! Prediction: Interfaces as light and unobtrusive as a pad of paper will change the way we use computers.