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Why would you want that? Handwriting is slow, certainly slower than the keyboard iOS provides. I’m honestly puzzled why handwriting was ever a favored input met
by ugh 16y ago
Why would you want that? Handwriting is slow, certainly slower than the keyboard iOS provides. I’m honestly puzzled why handwriting was ever a favored input method.
- slantyyz 16y agoMaybe because just about everyone knows how to do it, and because it's quieter than tapping on a screen or keyboard? That's not to say it's the optimal method of input, but either is voice. There are use cases where writing or voice may be better than typing.
- ugh 16y agoWhile writing might be a nice additional feature, I can certainly understand why Apple didn’t build iOS around it. (In the current climate this probably also means that handwriting won’t come to iOS anytime soon.)
- slantyyz 16y agoI think we can thank RIM for that. While they were not the first, they arguably made the QWERTY keyboard ubiquitous and (for the first time) more than tolerable on a phone sized device.
- bosie 16y agoYou are right about speed. However, I would like to have handwriting simply for symbols and drawing (i.e. mindmapping). How are you going to enter math formulas faster with a keyboard than a pen? Same goes for marking and annotating things. IMO, precision and speed for marking/annotating is pretty bad with iOS. But I don't see how apps like Omnifocus can make use of it.
- masklinn 16y agoYou'd need a thin stylus for that, and Apple doesn't ship one which means they're not going to built it into the OS. But surely it wouldn't be too hard (where too hard means technically infeasible) to create an application based on hand-written input (Graffiti or Rosetta/Inkwell-type technologies).
- glhaynes 16y agoAnd there are indeed apps that do that. (I don't know the name(s), but I've seen at least one running on a friend's iPad.)