Comments on: Why a Tablet?

By: Leslie Thomas

Leslie Thomas — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:45:59 +0000

No Market? How many high school and college students are there in the world?
As a college student, the ability to take notes on a tablet, preferably alongside notes or slides provided by the professor would be valuable to me, especially since it would eliminate the need to carry around five or six 2 inch binders with coursepacks in them. An e-reader capability on the tablet would be even better. I could take notes directly in textbooks and save myself from the backache that plagues most students.

By: stephenfleming

stephenfleming — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:57:17 +0000

Ajai — no, although the Tenon stylus looks nice. One of the reasons for the iPhone’s success is that Apple designed the whole widget around the multitouch interface. Poking at that with a stylus feels like ice-skating on crutches.

UNLESS the user experience of the Tablet is designed with a stylus in mind from Day One (which I don’t expect), I suspect it will be the same problem. Although maybe some briliant app developer can make a Tablet-optimized version of something like OneNote and prove me wrong!

By: Ajai Karthikeyan

Ajai Karthikeyan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:23:18 +0000

Would this solve your problem? It works on the iPhone http://tenonedesign.com/stylus.php

By: pwb

pwb — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:38:08 +0000

You are probably the only person who wants an Apple Tablet in order to take notes in meetings.

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