Memorable Quotes
When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his men were well motivated.
Sean Connery as Captain Ramius
We’ve seen Apple impose design constraints upon itself many times. The original Macintosh lacked keyboard arrow keys, making the mouse a complete necessity. The iPod’s navigation scheme never grew more complicated than “scroll, click center, click menu.” And the iPhone lacks a stylus, ensuring all its apps are fat-finger friendly. By comparison, apps for Blackberry and Android—whose wildly-variable hardware give you no baseline to design to—are generally horrific.
So it is that Andy Ihnatko believes the first generation of the Rumored Apple Tablet will lack any kind of keyboard connection: no USB ports, no Bluetooth keyboard support. By removing hardware keyboards as a possibility, the tablet’s designers and engineers must ensure that on-screen keyboard is top-notch. And I have to agree with him.