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The bit about the swappable pen tip picked my interest, cool feature! As an avid believer that pen input is the most flexible way to express your thought proces
by ivankolev 7y ago
The bit about the swappable pen tip picked my interest, cool feature! As an avid believer that pen input is the most flexible way to express your thought process, I find it a bit of a lost art though, people born in the new millennium just wont spend the time to learn to write cursive. I went through most of the Note generation from Samsung and the SPen is getting really close to the look and feel of writing on paper. There's a Google hand writing keyboard for Android that is really good, in fact I am writing this using it.
Still, it looks like it will continue to be a niche functionality at best.
- gmueckl 7y agoAbout 15 years ago during my studies I dreamt of a tablet device with pen input and hand writing recognition for advanced maths. I was writing a lot during my physics lectures but almost no plain text. I would still like to have such a device, but also with a CAS integrated with the handwriting recognition. This would take the pain out of typing stuff into a CAS using obscure syntax.
- panda88888 7y agoIMO iPad Pro with the appropriate software would be perfect. However, I think handwriting recognition for math might be too much a niche for developer to focus and polish into software that’s a pleasure to use.
- gmueckl 7y agoAnd recognizing math is hard. That is a huge set of symbols (sometimes with semantically meaningful "tiny" variations like doubled up vertical lines on an R) and their size and relative positioning carries a lot of meaning. Handwriting is a walk in the park compared to that.
- afandian 7y agoAs someone with bad writing, I have very fond memories of the Graffiti input system from Palm. I can still remember the alphabet 20 years (it was painful writing that!) later.
- andeee23 7y agoThat might be just an us thing. Haven't met anyone in europe who didn't know cursive
- gerikson 7y agoI can write cursive but I can’t read my own handwriting - so now I print.