Because one is basically a phone, the other is basically a book. Handwriting on the iphone would not be such a bad thing, I'd actually appreciate having it, but it's rather cramped and it would not be much fun to write on. Without a pen for the pad, I see no reason to have a larger format, and many reasons not to.
The irony is that both devices have Chinese character recognition, but not Roman.
. Things that will all get fixed. Unless one really needs to pay the price of being an early adopter, wait for a year and half, then the price will come down, the features will add up, and glitches will be made less worse.
I love my first-generation iphone. The only thing I don't like about it is the software upgrades - version 1 was perfect, it's been all downhill from there.
First-gen Apple stuff is always full of compromises. They got the form and weight about right, and software apps will come. I've read that handwriting recognition on the Newton was quite improved by the time it was canned, and that was ten years ago. It won't be long. Everyone has a preferred method of input, and I've seen a lot of meh meh meh about keyboard and stylus opinions. It seems a bit short sighted for dismiss touch and gesture input as too limited. I was around when GUI was introduced, and heard the same comments. "Why use this stupid mouse and menus when I can use command-line input? It's the only way to do serious work!" This form factor is what computer designers have been trying to do for thirty years--a replacement for the sketch pad, where the machine parts don't interfere with the work. You can use a stylus on the iPad. One artist does covers for the New Yorker using an app called Brushes.
This is a big step forward, partially realized. It just takes a bit of wider vision to see the beyond our pre-concieved notions of what a computer can be.
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Date: 2010-01-27 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 11:38 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs
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Date: 2010-01-28 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-28 12:05 am (UTC)The irony is that both devices have Chinese character recognition, but not Roman.
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Date: 2010-01-28 08:19 am (UTC)The iPhone's Chinese language method entry is basically through handwriting recognition.
I suspect it won't be long before there's a handwriting recognition app for English. It seems far more trivial to design than for Chinese.
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Date: 2010-01-27 11:27 pm (UTC)Things that will all get fixed. Unless one really needs to pay the price of being an early adopter, wait for a year and half, then the price will come down, the features will add up, and glitches will be made less worse.
Still running the last CRT Mac
Danielle
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Date: 2010-01-27 11:28 pm (UTC)No camera. Only 64GB.
I'll wait for 2.0 if it ever happens.
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Date: 2010-01-27 11:39 pm (UTC)Let the early adopters scream about this obvious oversight.
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Date: 2010-01-28 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-28 09:56 pm (UTC)Everyone has a preferred method of input, and I've seen a lot of meh meh meh about keyboard and stylus opinions. It seems a bit short sighted for dismiss touch and gesture input as too limited. I was around when GUI was introduced, and heard the same comments. "Why use this stupid mouse and menus when I can use command-line input? It's the only way to do serious work!"
This form factor is what computer designers have been trying to do for thirty years--a replacement for the sketch pad, where the machine parts don't interfere with the work.
You can use a stylus on the iPad. One artist does covers for the New Yorker using an app called Brushes.
This is a big step forward, partially realized. It just takes a bit of wider vision to see the beyond our pre-concieved notions of what a computer can be.