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you might say they're pointless to have in an iPhone, but I think partly that's because an iPhone can't yet do them well. I meant that you might say they're po

by 10ren 18y ago

you might say they're pointless to have in an iPhone, but I think partly that's because an iPhone can't yet do them well. I meant that you might say they're pointless for iPhone sales. It's not just for developers, but also for the products that are easier to create with them (if you had a database sitting there, extensive libraries etc). Imagine if you could use an iPhone as a desktop PC, in the same way that many people dock laptops dock into a display and keyboard, and it was powerful enough to run all the apps that most people use. I'm thinking of how the mainframe was replaced by the mini, by the workstation, by the PC... But I didn't realize the size difference was quite so dramatic. The display of the smallest netbook is almost 50% larger than a whole iPhone in both directions. netbook display 93 x 153 iPhone 62 x 115

berntb 18y ago
I don't know if the term "netbook" even applies to that. Link? Even if you got VGA, there is readability and control of the few inches (mouse contra big fingers which needs big buttons and backtracking because there will be errors). Again: It is a different world, which needs either a new paradigm for use (iPhone) -- or new interface mechanisms. I'd love a good chording keyboard and an EyeTap. Sigh, maybe in five years. Nice chatting, but I have to finish another page of code today... :-)
- 10ren 18y ago
  Link? You mean the netbook specs? I couldn't find them online, so I just measured my eee PC (dimensions are just the display, not the whole thing.) Yeah, the form factor is an issue. Just BTW, MS has a cool idea of a seen-through case: it's touch-sensitive on the back, and the position of your fingers appears on the display. Kind of bizarre, I don't know it will work (how to differentiate between position and "click"?), but it's a cool idea.

by 10ren 18y ago

berntb 18y ago

I don't know if the term "netbook" even applies to that. Link? Even if you got VGA, there is readability and control of the few inches (mouse contra big fingers which needs big buttons and backtracking because there will be errors). Again: It is a different world, which needs either a new paradigm for use (iPhone) -- or new interface mechanisms. I'd love a good chording keyboard and an EyeTap. Sigh, maybe in five years. Nice chatting, but I have to finish another page of code today... :-)

10ren 18y ago
Link? You mean the netbook specs? I couldn't find them online, so I just measured my eee PC (dimensions are just the display, not the whole thing.) Yeah, the form factor is an issue. Just BTW, MS has a cool idea of a seen-through case: it's touch-sensitive on the back, and the position of your fingers appears on the display. Kind of bizarre, I don't know it will work (how to differentiate between position and "click"?), but it's a cool idea.