I love the fact that it's larger multi-touch device. I think that Apple has nailed the speed of interaction with the user's input. (On other devices, the lag of device touch interaction with my interaction drives me crazy.)
I wish we could see more of John Elias and Wayne Westerman's hand in the mutli-touch gestures and on screen keyboard. I've had a Touch Stream keyboard for years and they do some wonderful things around using chord modifiers to make typing easier. For example, instead of reaching for the shift key, on the Touch Stream keyboard you place all four fingers on the home row of the left side to place the keyboard in "Caps" mode for right side. And vise verse. Above the home row for 'Control' and below the home row for 'Alt'. I think that the device has great potential for other types of "keyboards" similar to the Optimus Tactus keyboard. http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/ Which I think we saw in the "Brush" demo. (Which my kids would love). And kudos to Jonathan Ive. He's the best thing that ever happened to Apple. I'll hold the rest of my opinions until I can get my hands on one. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Tracy Boyington < [email protected]> wrote: > As someone's wife, I agree. But my husband would use it the same way I > would... updating blog/Facebook or reading email in front of the TV, > watching a movie on the road, looking up a recipe in the kitchen, > surfing the web anywhere. Apple deliberately placed it between the > iPhone and a "real computer," and it fits there nicely. I'm not going to > do any actual *work* on an iPad. I'd use a laptop for that. I don't need > to be able to use it with one hand - I've got my iPhone for that. > > ~~~~~ > Tracy Boyington [email protected] > Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education > Stillwater, OK http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc > > > >>> Navid Sadikali <[email protected]> 1/28/2010 12:40 AM >>> > I think these observations are on track - what people's wives need ie > what *most *people do in terms of computing. > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
