Now that would be "Magical, Revolutionary even!"
Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab
Will the Apple iPad 3 be an 'homage' to the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, complete with clever clip-on keyboard accessory? One financial analysts comments, posted after a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, suggests it might be. Enter Citigroup researcher Richard Gardner, who late last week said he'd been chewing the fat with …
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Monday 6th February 2012 13:23 GMT John P
I hope that, if Apple do this, Asus sue the shit out of them so they can be on the receiving end of a 'prior art' law suit for once.
Maybe Samsung could chip in too, make it a team effort!
Fail - because any attempt to sue Apple will most likely fail while it is still bathed in the heavenly light of Saint Jobs.
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Monday 6th February 2012 20:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
You've all got the wrong end of the stick.
In future the physical keyboard on laptops will be replaced with a flatscreen virtual keyboard, on which the size, shape and label of the virtual keys will change, depending on language selection, modifier key presses, or which application you are using. This will get rid of the need to manufacture overly complex and overly breakable keyboards in a range of different layouts.
Apple [and other manufacturers] just need to sort out the haptic feedback, so typing on this kind of keyboard feels as natural as on one with actual moveable keys. Then the physical keyboard can be consigned to the dustbin of history [and not before time!]
The future isn't a tablet with a clip-on keyboard to make it resemble a laptop; it's a laptop with a tablet for a keyboard.
[Hey! —This "finger in the wind" unfounded speculation lark is really easy!]