Comments on: From Click to Touch – iPad & the Era of Touch Computing

By: Small_show000

Small_show000 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:47:00 +0000

how much is the low proce of i pad?

By: hewgie

hewgie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:38:53 +0000

It just shows how far ahead the Z88 was in it’s day.

By: sinephase

sinephase — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:56:29 +0000

I agree about the innovation aspect, but don’t think Apple is a ‘pioneer’ in touch computing, even though companies are copying them.
The biggest help that the tablet PC has had is the cell phone. The reason I say this is that in general, it’s hard for a consumer to justify a high price tag for a small device (even if they can somehow do it for things like diamonds, for example). Cell phones becoming more prominent makes people see the worth in a small device with relatively minimal specs.
The older, pen based tablets that failed IMO didn’t fail primarily because of the pen input, but because they had mediocre specs at a high price for relatively little extra functionality. Weight is and will always be an important factor for a touch based device, one problem that Apple will have to better work out. I had the m200 from Toshiba, and even under 3 pounds was too heavy to keep propped up in hand, IMO anything over a pound isn’t very good for a purely touch interface. If you end up having to use the device for a long time, you’ll have it sitting on your lap and using your hand as a stand, bending your neck in an unnatural way. If you have the device laying flat on a surface, then of course viewing angle on the LCD becomes obvious, so a very good viewing angle is important.
The touchsmart computers from HP are fail for the general user as well mainly because of the distance a user will have to sit from the screen, and holding your hand up for long periods of time is not going to happen.

Anyway, the biggest contribution Apple has for this market is going to be development for ARM computing beyond the cell phone, and PR to increase interest in the tablet form factor and touch interface in general.

By: turn_self_off

turn_self_off — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:40:10 +0000

i think i will stake my claim alongside android or meego, rather then apple’s iphoneos (for lack of a better name).

sure, the app store makes reaching customers easier, but at the same time apple acting as gate keeper will slow down true innovation on the platform. Innovation that can only really happen when “virgin” hardware comes into the hands of people that want to scratch some its right there, without having to wait for approval by some third party.

and given that, the best bet may well be meego. That is, if the support for python as a on device RAD is carried over from the nokia tablets and N900. There people have used python to develop, debug and improve thing directly on the devices, any where, any time they could.

i would love to see a ipad like device where one can do development, free of both expense and walled garden limitations, right on the device itself. Right now, one need to have a apple computer and a developers license to do so on the ipad.