Comments on: the apple tablet: moleskines, magazines and the killer map http://www.lightninglaboratories.com/tcw/2009/07/the-apple-tablet-moleskines-magazines-and-the-killer-map/ a service of Lightning Laboratories Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sammie Talkington http://www.lightninglaboratories.com/tcw/2009/07/the-apple-tablet-moleskines-magazines-and-the-killer-map/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Sammie Talkington Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:17:14 +0000 http://www.genebecker.com/?p=513#comment-104 Good blog entry. What do you think of the iPad? Man was I let down this thing should have been insane instead Jobs settled for a cheap device. <a href="http://www.ipadhype.net" rel="nofollow">iPad Touch</a> Good blog entry.

What do you think of the iPad?

Man was I let down this thing should have been insane instead Jobs settled for a cheap device.

iPad Touch

]]> By: Phil Stenton http://www.lightninglaboratories.com/tcw/2009/07/the-apple-tablet-moleskines-magazines-and-the-killer-map/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Phil Stenton Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:33:43 +0000 http://www.genebecker.com/?p=513#comment-5 You describe a mouth-watering device and if Apple can pull off the AppStore trick with a larger tablet the really useful applications may well emerge. The challenges would be to create such a device that is not too much of a premium over netbooks and doesn't look like an oversized iPhone/iTouch. If it looks too much like its predecessors the contrast effect may work against it. It would be great to see multi-media e-books+ with a usable interface. The e-book prototype HP showed a couple of years back looked cool with it's page-stroking interface and animated page turns. My experience of the current Sony device is it is sleek and light but I find the page turning is a little jarring. I think you hit the nail on the head with your stylus comments. Plastic and glass is still not yet a satisfactory tactile experience. Portability may be an issue unless the tablet is rediculously thin and has a cool bag that makes the white earbuds statement. I saw an implementation of the audio and scribble synchronisation app you describe a few years ago and it's pretty compelling(http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=191763). You describe a mouth-watering device and if Apple can pull off the AppStore trick with a larger tablet the really useful applications may well emerge. The challenges would be to create such a device that is not too much of a premium over netbooks and doesn’t look like an oversized iPhone/iTouch. If it looks too much like its predecessors the contrast effect may work against it.

It would be great to see multi-media e-books+ with a usable interface. The e-book prototype HP showed a couple of years back looked cool with it’s page-stroking interface and animated page turns. My experience of the current Sony device is it is sleek and light but I find the page turning is a little jarring.

I think you hit the nail on the head with your stylus comments. Plastic and glass is still not yet a satisfactory tactile experience.

Portability may be an issue unless the tablet is rediculously thin and has a cool bag that makes the white earbuds statement.

I saw an implementation of the audio and scribble synchronisation app you describe a few years ago and it’s pretty compelling(http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=191763).

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