“Apple has started hiring for a new Handwriting Recognition Engineer. The job description specifically seeks someone who would be responsible for ‘advancing Apple’s handwriting recognition technology for Mac OS X,'” Arnold Kim reports for Mac Rumors.
“They even suggest that the recognition technology could extend beyond Mac OS X ‘to other applications and the iPhone,'” Kim reports.
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What happened to “who wants a stylus?”
So is my pharmacist.
shouldn’t they be working on voice recognition instead???
In Apple’s super secret laboratory miles beneath 1 Infinite Loop, engineers are developing multi-touch text input for the iPhone that will then be projected onto the nearest vertical flat surface. It will be clear to everyone that the handwriting is on the wall.
YES!!! MAC TABLET!!!
@ Naive Inter-Dimensional Commando Koala
Okay, that’s enough, or I’ll sick my Samurai Penguin on you.
I recognize handwriting when I see it- How much are they paying?
@PC Apologist
The current MultiTouch interface is fine for most cel-phone or media player apps, meaning that you can use it to control about 75-80% of all apps out there. But what if you want a sketch book? A stylus will always have its place in handheld computing, the trick is to make it optional for general use.
Apple needs to hire a SAFARI engineer that can write code that won’t get hacked in two minutes. BTW, the Vista and Linux machines survived the entire day of hacking in the identical conditions without going down like the Mac. Reeally ticked off. Pathetic.
@ AppleSoft
Fuck off troll.
The second coming of Newton? Check out this classic video of handwriting recognition technology on the newton:
Greg…
Your statement to AppleSoft misses out on two things: simple manners and the timeframe in which you wished the troll to “fuck off”.
May I suggest that “Please fuck off now” solves both of the shortcomings in your sentence!
Re the commenter who mentioned voice recognition: I think the bottom line is all kinds of new forms of recognition – including “positional recognition”. The iPhone has this to a large degree, able to discern more or less where it is and how it is being moved around.
The success of the Wii demonstrates that people want to interact with their devices (and the ‘net) in other ways than keyboard/mouse.
This doe not necessarily mean, however, that ‘Smellovision’ is around the corner.
Voice recognition is a technology that sounds great on paper and sets geek hearts aflutter, but have you tried having a conversation with one of the bank or credit card company VR phone trees? It is maddeningly frustrating in practice. The Microsoft commercial for their “Sync” technology unittingly demonstrates the shortcomings of VR with people banging into doors and falling off treadmills. I can only hope that if Apple ever implements it on their hardware that they do a better job, as is usually the case. I’ll wait and see.
Apple usually advertises for an expert in a special field when the finished product is almost ready for market and they want Microsoft to think it’s at least a year away from being done.
They hired their Handwriting Recognition Engineer at least a year ago.
Look for a stylist equipped notepad to appear in a month or two.
Voice recognition sounds good in concept but in practice it can be something else.
Voice OS commands are one thing but even after training the software properly, just try to dictate 5 or 6 complicated e-mails in a row. You can’t drink water fast enough to keep from going hoarse. You can’t piss that water out fast enough either.
Voice dictation is not physically practical for most people. Even for women who are naturally gifted with the ability to talk their faces off.
“The Microsoft commercial for their “Sync” technology”
What’s more funny is that you have to activate Sync first by pressing a button. So much for voice control.