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iPad: Apple Upsets The eBook Apple-cart
http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/20...pple-cart.html
Bill Hill headed up Microsoft's Typography Group in the 90s, and helped invent ClearType. Quote:
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I find ClearType highly interesting:
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Hill also writes about handwriting recognition here:
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Hill talks about it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TheCh...learType-work/
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only a company who is willing to write an OS that is tablet/handwriting/drawing based from the ground up is going to make something that is truly innovative and actually works well. the only large company who has something that is even part-way there is apple with the newton os. which jobs killed years ago. why did it take so long for apple to implement even the limited copy and paste the iphone/touch now has? the newton was doing it a decade ago flawlessly. jobs didn't want to borrow from the old OS. that and he didn't feel people needed it. lol. Last edited by scottjl; 02-11-2010 at 04:06 PM. |
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Google is blazing fast to index MR. Typed in "cleartype ipad" on Google and the 3d hit that came up was this thread.
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Funny how that guy consistently calls Apple's Quartz font rentering engine a "clone", since the underlying subpixel rendering technology was not invented by Microsoft, but rather by IBM in 1988. Plus, Cleartype in Windows XP was of really poor quality and only became decent in Vista.
I still prefer Quartz since it retains the fonts' original characters rather than forcing them into static pixel structures. It's like a doctor making custom splints to fit your legs versus breaking your legs to make them fit the one-size splints. However, I guess that's Off Topic (and highly subjective) here. The rest of his blog post is really very interesting, that's why I've bookmarked the page! |
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apple from about 1998 and on has a history of not wanting to do something until they know how to do it right. they needed two years to figure out how to make copy paste work right on a phone. now, a year later, there still isn't a mobile copy paste implementation that equals it. just try it on the nexus one. it's painful compared to the iphone's implementation.
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copy and paste on the iphone is a horrible kludge compared to what you could do on the newton. double-tap a word, or tap, hold and drag a block of text. drag it to the edge of the screen. go to where you want it and drop it off. needed multiple blocks? drag them one at a time they all hung out at the edge. simple and it worked. i never seem to get selection properly on my iphone, dragging those left and right side pins is a total PITA. i'm limited to one block at a time and have no visual way to know what is in the clipboard.
jobs didn't do it right on the iphone, he did it different. because he hated the newton and wouldn't be caught dead borrowing from it. |
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they may implement a system closer to the newton's with the ipad since it has enough screen real estate compared to the iphone, but i would doubt it. |
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