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Originally Posted by kilron
great ideas, especially for the academic market. but who's to say you can't do all of that without a stylus and without handwriting recognition? apple's already implemented the most intuitive cut/copy/paste for touch devices (or almost any device). don't you think they could modify this with greater capabilities or some third party could make some apps where you can do that and simply type in notes via the virtual keyboard as opposed to sribbling? just a thought...
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Personally I don't need hand writing recognition as I'd never do much text entry on a tablet--that's what my PC and laptop are for.
But I need to be able to highlight/underline and scribble notes in the margins of PDFs of research articles, academic books, textbooks I'm reading to write my lectures etc.
Virtual keyboard suck to use IMO. And for markup I don't even like highlighting with the mouse and typing notes with a real keyboard. It's slow and clunky and I'll keep killing trees and printing stuff out on the universities dime until there's a tablet that lets me mark up my documents with a stylus just as quickly and efficiently as I can with printouts/real books now.
So yeah, maybe some of the options you mention would work for a lot of people. Just not me. As you noted in this thread or another, you care about discussing things from a mass market standpoint and what the average user needs.
I have no interest in that, my only interest with tech gadgets is whether they fit my own very specific needs. I don't care if the tablet I end up getting sells 100,000 units or 10 million units as long as it fits my needs perfectly.