Sad to see the letter 'E' go, as I use it quite often.
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Apple Explores Smart Keyboard With Siri, Share, and Emoji Keys
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How would you power it? Rechargeable? The iPad would die far quicker if it was having to power an external keyboard that has a touch display on it.
"e" is ovrratd.
Thn us anothr lttr instad
For that mattr, who nds vowls 2 bgin wth
autocorrct just had a hartattack
Sometimes I wonder who the heck will be buying apple products seeing the direction this company is taking?
Firstly, Apple have had a touch bar on iPad for a long time - the row above the software keyboard.For what would you need a Touch Bar with an iPad?
A physical Touch Bar would have the functionality of the virtual touch bar in addition to what other keyboards do and more:
- Volume control
- Brightness Control
- Siri
- Playback control
- Playback scrubbing (useful for Picture-in-Picture)
- Emoji/other character selection
- Existing software bar functionality (e.g. word prediction)
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Apple should just buy Fisher-Price and be done with it.
"Would you like to play a game?"
"Would you like to play a game?"
We already have the Touch Bar.... it happens to be on the bottom portion of the iPad screen. The touch bar on the macbook Pro came from THAT.
You know I have actually given that some serious thought. Next: the new Apple iPyramid!
I never thought I would be the one to say this, but if they really start putting an emoji key on these machines (or smart keyboards), I'm probably out.
Apple Pencil 2? No way, I'm holding out for the Apple Pen. The promo video looks amazing.
It would be powered by the iPad of course, through a Smart Connector as the current one does.
Given that the iPad Pros (12.9 and 10.5) power almost 5.6 million pixels on their screen, a touch bar containing around 130,000 pixels wouldn't have a great affect. You are saying that this 2% increase in resolution is going to kill the iPad "far quicker"?
I understand resolution is not the only factor, but in addition to the rumored thickness and battery size increases, the A10X chip will likely have the low power cores that the A10 Fusion does not to mention greater efficiency, being a 10nm chip.
everyday it feels more and more like we're getting trolled by apple... a dedicated emoji key? seriously?
I know, if you read a previous reply to someone else questioning a touch bar on an iPad, I mentioned that exact point. My concept would not only move the predictive text to the keyboard, but would also move other functions to it.
Is an Emoji key really that crazy? People talk in images more than ever and I don't think it's that big of a deal. I think it should be smaller and in a different location but I can see it being extremely useful for those who use them often, which is most people. It doesn't take away "pro-ness" of a machine, and it doesn't impact any of you in anyway. But I mean grow a couple grey hairs if you want.
I was surprised Jobs didn't get rid of the caps lock key ages ago.
It's a holdover from the typewriter era when bolding or italicising words was obviously not possible, and invoking caps-lock was the only option for making words stand out.
I disabled caps-lock on my macs years ago. It's a wasted key.
It's a holdover from the typewriter era when bolding or italicising words was obviously not possible, and invoking caps-lock was the only option for making words stand out.
I disabled caps-lock on my macs years ago. It's a wasted key.