Re: powerPod ??
Originally posted by 3G4N
consumer / professional
iMac ---> PowerMac
iBook ---> PowerBook
iPod ---> PowerPod
iMovie ---> Final Cut Pro
iDVD ---> DVD Studio Pro
Yeah, I'm just sitting here waiting for PowerChat, PowerPhoto, PowerTunes...
If Apple really has such a product, it's possible that it's something we won't be able to understand, because it'll be beyond anything we know. Jobs and his people are geniuses, and chances are, this product is the product of genius as well. We'd have to be geniuses to figure out what this is before they release it. And even if some of us are geniuses, it would be stupendous chance if we could figure out the exact same thing that Apple figured out.
(Either that, or it's a portable DVD-QuickTime player/digital image viewer with trivial computing capabilities, like the iPod.)
I don't know about you, but I have a Palm, and the Palm has a freestyle rub-the-stylus-on-the-screen-and-it-records-the-lines-you-scribble program. Rubbing a plastic stick against a plastic screen is nothing like writing on paper. It's also what I hate. I can type for hours, but start me with a pen, and I'm cramped in 30 minutes. Pen input is not going to utterly replace keyboards. In fact, it's not really going to replace much of anything. It is what we've been replacing for decades. It's still holding out in some places.
As for those of you who don't like to take notes with a laptop?it's a personal problem. Digitizing your personal problem won't solve anything. Some people can't even write with a keyboard, they have to write out their thoughts on paper and then copy them to the computer through typing. I more or less grew up with computers, so I can write on a computer. Others were able to transition.
Likewise with notes. As a high school senior, I've never taken notes with a computer. It might be difficult, for me. I'll try to adapt and adjust. I'll probably make it. If the first time people try taking notes with a computer is in college, however, they'll have trouble. Some of them. Which is why we need high schoolers equipped with laptops. In the future, this will happen more and more. If you learn to write with a computer early in life, you can do it, if not, you might not be able to. No one learned to take notes with a computer early in life. That's why no one does it. The issue of taking notes by computer is mostly going to be solved given time.
(I have to note that pen-based input might be a necessity here, however, only to some extent?the sciences use odd symbols that computers will find difficult to deal with. Somehow, this has to be handled.)
