It would be nice if there was some kind of touch keyboard calibration and the keyboard would adapt itself to the size of the hands/fingers. 
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Apple Working on Advanced Gesturing and Multi-Touch Version of iWork
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"multitouch" is code for "suitable for tablet (and maybe iphone) interface." That is, bigger buttons, no menus, etc.
No. The fact that they haven't announced it or confirmed it does not mean that they deny it.
This is starting to sound interesting...
My prediction:
Steve shows the tablet running a multitouch version of Front Row. It works and looks amazing. We all want one the same way the iPhone "had me at scrolling." Everyone is excited. He then presses the "home" button and our minds are blown because that was just one of a dozen apps. iWork, iPhoto, iCal, e-reader, some sort of back-to-my-mac/remote desktop app, and games are demoed. Ridiculous media partnership is announced bringing eBooks, subscription TV, etc. Standing ovation... Steve retires...
EDIT: HP, Dell, Microsoft, Google all $h*t their pants because Apple patents the F*** out of their ingenious new form of text entry, navigation, and gestures on a touch screen.
My prediction:
Steve shows the tablet running a multitouch version of Front Row. It works and looks amazing. We all want one the same way the iPhone "had me at scrolling." Everyone is excited. He then presses the "home" button and our minds are blown because that was just one of a dozen apps. iWork, iPhoto, iCal, e-reader, some sort of back-to-my-mac/remote desktop app, and games are demoed. Ridiculous media partnership is announced bringing eBooks, subscription TV, etc. Standing ovation... Steve retires...
EDIT: HP, Dell, Microsoft, Google all $h*t their pants because Apple patents the F*** out of their ingenious new form of text entry, navigation, and gestures on a touch screen.
Don't forget the index-finger, pinky & thumb counter-clockwise turn double-tap ring finger combo for select-all.
DUH.
What says a tablet isn't content creative? The tablet market is so variable. There is already the ModBook tablet which allows creativity. These articles make my eyes bleed.
And duh pt2: of course they are making iWork for the tablet. Sooner or later, tablets will be what our laptops are today. Apple is certainly going to try to get there first with a light, thin product with enough power to be more than a mere iPod.
Otherwise, why not just make a MaxiPod and call it a day??
-_-; seriously. They could have put out a MaxiPod years ago.
Tablets - all tablets - are inferior for many types of content creation due to their lack of keyboards. Some are good for certain types of artistic work, though it helps if they are pressure sensitive and support pens. Some support external keyboards/input devices, which of course makes them as good as anything else.
However, in general, tablets are aimed toward content consumption, typically with subpar content creation input means.
What makes you think that's a problem? Do you think they are not capable of doing it? Or not allowed to do it?
If XCode is on the Tablet, I'm not getting a laptop. I plan on getting a 13" MacBook Pro for XCode and portability, but I'm going to get a Tablet as well. I highly doubt XCode would be on the Tablet, though.
I doubt it to True but that would be cool to have it on there, as we both agree.
Touch is a nice way to use audio apps . Especially if they are designed for (multi)-touch entry.
i.e. iPhone apps like TouchOSC & Looptastic or Jazzmutant's Lemur multitouch control surface.
If XCode is on the Tablet, I'm not getting a laptop. I plan on getting a 13" MacBook Pro for XCode and portability, but I'm going to get a Tablet as well. I highly doubt XCode would be on the Tablet, though.
whats XCode?
Nah, I wouldn't expect a tablet device to be able to do any heavy, complicated tasks. Consider the size, battery capacity, processing and graphics power, user input interface, etc., it would appear to be the wrong tool for those sort of intensive tasks.
My guess is that there would be a category of lightweight productivity and creative applications designed for the consumer (like iPhoto, maybe a simplified iMovie, simplified iWorks/office type stuff), rather than focus on "prosumer" applications like Logic, Final Cut, Photoshop, etc.
iWork could work really well if apple perfect "Speaking" input.
Imagine you create a text box tap on it to enable input, then tap a button that appears in the text box to speak the words, press it again to finish.
to compliment the speaking part you could have a small onscreen keyboard for characters like @ , £ $ etc.
could work
Imagine you create a text box tap on it to enable input, then tap a button that appears in the text box to speak the words, press it again to finish.
to compliment the speaking part you could have a small onscreen keyboard for characters like @ , £ $ etc.
could work
iWork could work really well if apple perfect "Speaking" input.
Imagine you create a text box tap on it to enable input, then tap a button that appears in the text box to speak the words, press it again to finish.
could work
speech input is not practical for most people who have to do real work, and especially not for places where the tablet is most likely to be used (while commuting, flying, out in public, etc.)
Why would they? It's like before the iPhone was released, expecting the iPod app to look just like iTunes, or iPhoto or Mail to be drag and drop equivalents.
What if the new surprise input method were a new evolution of typing using gestures rather than location on a keyboard. For example:
Simultaneous thumb-tap to enter typing mode. All letters represented by a finger tap, combination finger tap, or finger slide. Common words like 'the' could have their own combination as well. Simultaneous thumb-tap to exit typing mode.
Requires a learning curve but it completely eliminates the need for a visual keyboard or pressure feedback etc.
Simultaneous thumb-tap to enter typing mode. All letters represented by a finger tap, combination finger tap, or finger slide. Common words like 'the' could have their own combination as well. Simultaneous thumb-tap to exit typing mode.
Requires a learning curve but it completely eliminates the need for a visual keyboard or pressure feedback etc.
Now this would be awesome!! I think they need to add stuff like this so it won't be just a "big iPhone"
It surely can't be just a big iPhone. The iPhone interface is designed for a very small surface. It's unlikely that Apple would just upscale an iPod Touch or shrink a Mac. It's probably something different, interacting a lot with the iPhone and the Mac.
I love iWork. Love it.
The fact that it focuses on helping me make beautiful and effective documents without being a professional design is unbelievably valuable to me.
I hope we see iPhone support and continued enhancements to the Mac version.
If the Apple tablet exists, iWork on it would be a big motivator for me to buy it. I would worry about the potential of using iWork with no keyboard, but I still haver laptops and desktops for long typing sessions.
This is very exciting times...
The fact that it focuses on helping me make beautiful and effective documents without being a professional design is unbelievably valuable to me.
I hope we see iPhone support and continued enhancements to the Mac version.
If the Apple tablet exists, iWork on it would be a big motivator for me to buy it. I would worry about the potential of using iWork with no keyboard, but I still haver laptops and desktops for long typing sessions.
This is very exciting times...
My main question is how will you input text on the tablet?
If you have a text editor program, you can use swipes and gestures for some things(like making text bold or copying), but the main bulk of it is entering text. Therefore I hope Steve has some revolutionary way to enter text, other then simply the virtual keyboard that is on the iphone. If he does have this up his sleeve, and it works really well, the tablet will be a huge success.
If you have a text editor program, you can use swipes and gestures for some things(like making text bold or copying), but the main bulk of it is entering text. Therefore I hope Steve has some revolutionary way to enter text, other then simply the virtual keyboard that is on the iphone. If he does have this up his sleeve, and it works really well, the tablet will be a huge success.