Apple Working on Advanced Gesturing and Multi-Touch Version of iWork
The New York Times offers some additional tidbits that might come in the rumored Apple Tablet.
According to former Apple employees, Apple has been working on advanced multi-touch gesturing that was originally pioneered by FingerWorks. Apple acquired FingerWorks a number of years ago and has been leveraging their multi-touch technology in their latest products. This news shouldn't be particularly surprising for anyone who has been following Apple for the past few years.
The most interesting report from the article is that Apple is said to have "spent the past couple of years working on a multitouch version of iWork". Such a version of iWork would presumably allow the upcoming Apple tablet to be used for document creation rather than solely content consumption. It would also blur the lines between the functions of tablet and that of a more traditional laptop computer.
Apple is rumored to be introducing their tablet computer later this month.
According to former Apple employees, Apple has been working on advanced multi-touch gesturing that was originally pioneered by FingerWorks. Apple acquired FingerWorks a number of years ago and has been leveraging their multi-touch technology in their latest products. This news shouldn't be particularly surprising for anyone who has been following Apple for the past few years.
The most interesting report from the article is that Apple is said to have "spent the past couple of years working on a multitouch version of iWork". Such a version of iWork would presumably allow the upcoming Apple tablet to be used for document creation rather than solely content consumption. It would also blur the lines between the functions of tablet and that of a more traditional laptop computer.
Apple is rumored to be introducing their tablet computer later this month.
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27 months ago
i so hope that is true. it would make the tablet work for me. also i then expect pixelmator/photoshop et al. to follow.
27 months ago
Just another way that the tablet will basically make every other device at CES seem obsolete. Apple remains just a bit ahead of the competition - I don't see any signs that Android is ready for Google Docs content creation.
27 months ago
i can see how its great for documents with text and such like but i still do like a physical keyboard. Would be interesting to see how you would work photoshop. But my main area is music and i cant see many audio apps such as logic working that well with all this gesture stuff
27 months ago
i can see how its great for documents with text and such like but i still do like a physical keyboard. Would be interesting to see how you would work photoshop. But my main area is music and i cant see many audio apps such as logic working that well with all this gesture stuff
This could be cool. Touch for when your out and about and pair up with Bluetooth keyboard when at a desk.
27 months ago
If Steve Allows iWork and XCode in the Tablet I'm buying it no matter what the price is.
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27 months ago
There are some interesting possibilities. No need to make guesses about things I don't know. Apple may just take this to the next level.
27 months ago
I could see multitouch being useful for Keynote, but for Numbers and Pages it just seems like it would make things more complicated than they need to be...
27 months ago
i so hope that is true. it would make the tablet work for me. also i then expect pixelmator/photoshop et al. to follow.
This is somewhat good news and I hope Apple does the same for the iPhone. It would seem that Apple is pushing it to eventually become a computer. I hope they would do the same for iLife.
The limiting factors of this becoming one's sole computer still remain. Storage will become an issue unless iTunes offers a subscription based service for music, TV and movies.
I see the tablet eventually becoming a full-blown computer but it may be 5 years away. The question of openness also remains an issue.
27 months ago
i can see how its great for documents with text and such like but i still do like a physical keyboard. Would be interesting to see how you would work photoshop. But my main area is music and i cant see many audio apps such as logic working that well with all this gesture stuff
I think that iWork apps and some of the iLife apps could be reasonably expected to see their way the tablet OS. The current iPhone 3GS can do basic video editing, so with a more powerful processor/hardware the tablet will certainly at least be able to do the same and probably a little bit more (in terms of effects, transitions, etc). There are also some interesting audio manipulation applications that can run on the 3GS, same idea applied we might be able to see a Garageband tablet app.. not expecting multi-track recording or something fancy, but I wonder if the tablet would let you use some of the software music and record yourself playing piano?
I think we run into trouble when we start thinking we're going to see photoshop and other devices like that on the device. I'm not expecting that (though would be ok with it) but iWork/iLife Mobile would be great.
27 months ago
I just can't imagine a set of gestures and a touch system that would allow for anything other than extremely casual usage. What I can imagine is a suite of apps that don't look anything like the iWork suite we use today.
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