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I’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, especi
by ugh 15y ago
I’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.
- Poyeyo 15y agoI really don't know why tablets don't have shorthand recognition. Shorthand is fast.
- ugh 15y agoThat would be a niche feature. I doubt many people can write shorthand.
- MartinCron 15y agoI wonder if more people would learn shorthand if the devices could make it an input technique competitive with touch typing?
- lukeschlather 15y agoHandwriting recognition lets you jot down notes on a large diagram without stopping to switch contexts and find some sort of keyboard input mechanism. The courier was designed for people who are spending most of their time drawing, and don't need the overhead of dealing with a keyboard. I've seen some similar Windows 7 devices floating around, and I'd be interested to try them out. This obviously isn't marketed at coders, and it sounds pretty useful for some heavy-duty drawing tasks.
- ugh 15y agoThat’s useful. It doesn’t make the Courier any more a creation device than the iPad, though. That’s just absurd. The iPad is (also) for creation, the Courier would have been (also) for creation.