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The reasons cited by people who claim the iPad "can't do content creation" is the virtual keyboard, which precludes efficient typing and the lack of legacy apps
by roc 15y ago
The reasons cited by people who claim the iPad "can't do content creation" is the virtual keyboard, which precludes efficient typing and the lack of legacy apps, which precludes existing workflows.
The courier would be in that exact same position.
And let us not forget that there are already two radically different tablet categories. One tailored to typing and legacy apps and the other tailored to all-new touch-focused apps. The market simply couldn't care less about the ones with keyboards and apps that were designed for mice.
- rsynnott 15y agoAnd do remember that the "creation versus consumption" thing is a talking point originally introduced by... Microsoft! People somehow seem to have adopted it as a simple truth, but it's really a piece of marketing.
- chollida1 15y ago> And do remember that the "creation versus consumption" thing is a talking point originally introduced by... Microsoft! Really? I didn't know that. When did they create this distinction?
- culturestate 15y agoIn a competitive analysis back in January. http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/01/24/what-microsoft-really-thinks-about-the-ipad/ http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/01/24/what-microsoft-re...
- jamesgeck0 15y agoThe courier would have had a stylus, handwriting recognition, and a really nice screen. You'd have been able to cut and paste text and images by drawing circles around them and swiping them into a clipboard-bucket-thing on the other screen. I don't know how well it would have worked in the final product, but it looked pretty snazzy in the demo videos. :-)
- cryptoz 15y agoOne of the primary reasons I like computers is that I don't have to write by hand anymore. I don't think I'm alone.
- Fliko 15y agoI think the intention was for people who needed to draw things, like architects, electrical/mechanical engineers, artists. I nearly die over the fact that there is no awesome tablet that explicitly supports styluses and uses them in some new awesome creative way. It would really take away the barrier of taking notes in class with a tablet efficiently. (Even though I still plan on getting a tablet to do such things).
- fpgeek 15y agoMost of the time. But years of high school and college trained me to take notes with my hand. Trying to focus on what people are saying and use a keyboard just feels too hard. And yet I still don't want to give up all the advantages of electronic (vs paper) notes. I'd run to get a tablet with a really, really good stylus (I had high hopes for the HTC Flyer, but... maybe a future ICS tablet will get it right).
- ugh 15y agoI’m not sure what handwriting recognition gets you. I don’t know if you noticed but handwriting is slow. Much, much, much slower than any touch keyboard, especially a huge one like on the iPad.