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Apple tablet is a go
FRUITY TOY MAKER Apple has shut down the Fingerworks.com website in what is being seen as the run up to the release of the latest incarnation of the failed Apple Newton.
Jobs' Mob bought the outfit and hired its founders John Elias and Wayne Westerman five years ago. The big idea then was that Fingerworks would help increase computer speed by enabling simple gesture-based shortcuts.
While Elias and Westerman disappeared into the black hole of the Cappuccino company's machine and have not been seen again, Apple had allowed Fingerworks' website to remain online, complete with snaps and details about its multi-touch keyboards and gesture pads that it had released for Macs years ago.
According to ZDNET, what Apple might have wanted to smother was an ancient press release that described the benefits of using a multi-touch system in a combination keyboard and touchpad.
Westerman's name apparently has cropped up on many of Apple's multi-touch patents that are being linked to the new Newton clone.
Certainly if Apple's tablet is not going to go the same way as its Newton predecessor then Jobs' Mob is going to have to pull off something sexy other than marketing hype.
There are many touch tablets already out there that can do lots of interesting stuff and have not exactly taken off yet, although it's still a bit too soon to conclude that they've completely tanked.
If, as rumours suggest, Apple's tablet will just be a big Iphone or Ipod Touch then it's likely that it will go the same way. However, if there is some natty Fingerworks technology under the bonnet then Jobs' Mob might just pull off a coup and breathe new life into the so far much rejected tablet.
It is now clear that Apple is going to release some sort of tablet at the end of January, though. Orange's Stephane Richard told a French TV channel that the gadget will come with a webcam, will be launched by the end of this month, and Orange customers will be able to get it. He didn't release much else in the way of details.
What is telling however is that Orange knows about it and therefore it probably has some telecom capabilities too. µ
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Except that he's called Steve Jobs not Steve Job, so Jobs' is the correct use of the apostrophe.
Today, by doing casual research on “back side touch” keywords, I found a very interesting 2007 patent filing by Apple:
force-sensitive back-side interface
The patent is credited to Apple engineer John Elias. This guy is the founder of Fingerworks.com, a company dedicated to develop devices than can be controlled by gestures. Apple hired him 5 years ago, and surprise! the website has been shut down this week…
Timing is perfect for a 27 January presentation, isn'it?
http://aeroquartet.com/blog/
Struggling with the use of apostrophes there Nick?
To show possession by one owner, add an apostrophe and the letter s to the owner:
IE : Job's mob... rather than Jobs' mob
Strangely enough, you managed to get it right on some occasions, and then fuck it up on others.
As for the story, I've been reading that an Apple Tablet has been coming for years now. Maybe one day it will come true.
Give them stick, they love it and so do we.
Apple Tablet, my brother's wife says she heard about them and she think's they sound really good. She's not a techie and has very little tech knowledge, but she is a nice bright person in other respects!
And that's the person that Apple appeals to. Someone who knows little about the market. It's why business is so slow to adopt Apple pc's, businesses actually know something.
I'M PUTTIN LEOPARD ON MY LAPTOP ITS SWEEEEEEEEEEET. DOESNT WORK WITH BUILT-IN MICROPHONE THO, FRIGGIN JOBS.
I'LL PROBLY BUY A DELL TABLET AND MAKE IT A HACKLET.
When it emerges from its burrow just after dawn in front of a crowd of fanbois on Cobbler's Knob it will foretoken via its camera its own shadow's affect on the arrival of the Vernal equinox most adsuredly to the delight of the faithful, but in aggrevated opposition to the Groundhogese powers that (had) be.
A clay tablet between the channel.
And thereto it will be tied-into another's clothing, having the shirt off one's back and the pants of a thousand and score leopardesses.
"Here once there stood 19 Apple trees 9 bearing apples every year; now they are not standing. Who has taken them away from me? Whither have they gone all of a sudden? Now I see them - now I do not!"
Wow a bunch of saddos!!
A measured tone never pays off.
However, interesting tidbits.
Cmon Nick, we know you can flame the good ol' Roteen Apple better than that.
i go to jail for five days and when i come out the Ferrell is neutered!!
Dont fall into the hype machine...\
It will chew you up and spit out copy cat press release passed as reviews.
I think you've just described the majority of Nick's work. It doesn't seem to have any effect pointing this out though.
what a lazy negative article. Poor.