Souk's
Slate thread got me thinking...
Quite a while back, Apple gave us the Newton. Which promised a slick way of entering text in a fast comfortable way. This is how that ended....
For the past 5 years or so, I've been using inking on both my tablet PC and various Windows mobile cell phones. --it's been great!
The thing is, I'm seeing that the recent MSFT trend is to retire inking to the scrap-heap of history. That is, the new flashy "Phone7" doesn't offer inking, and more and more tablets are using the crude cap-sense touch screen input of a fleshy finger - the precision of a
fat-tipped Magic-Marker.
Maybe Apple has the right idea; people don't really want to
input much. ...their all just a bunch of finger-pointing consumption cows. (shrug)
Oh, and does anyone know if cursive writing is still taught in school?