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[Thoth]

Steve, on Feb 18 2010, 12:57 PM, said:

For the full interview, check out the TUAW article here.

Thanks Steve.

Do you think you will exhibit next year or was last year your last year?

Thanks again.
- Thoth

[Steve]

Thoth, on Feb 18 2010, 11:00 AM, said:

Do you think you will exhibit next year or was last year your last year?

I haven't decided yet. I think the show will continue, though from my read, it looks like the conference will be where the growth is.

-Steve

[Orren]

Steve, on Feb 18 2010, 09:57 AM, said:

For the full interview, check out the TUAW article here.

And a good interview it is—nice to hear the full context of your quote that started the thread. I tend to agree with your sentiments—an iPad (especially without the keyboard dock/blutooth keyboard) will likely not be a writing workstation. In fact, I doubt that the iPad will be a production workstation for many people; in the audio world, the user bases are getting excited about it's functionality as a remote controller for desktop workstations, not a replacement for even a laptop studio.

That said, I could imagine a kind of "Storyist Lite" that really did little more than read Storyist files and let you do basic editing, which I'm betting is all most of us would ever want to do on a tablet.

And that leads me to another post, in another forum.

Orren

[thealtruismsociety]

I had a good idea, use the iPad as a second monitor. Write the app so that everything but the main writing part are used so we can look at our characters, story, plot etc to the side of our main machine while we write.

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Consider the useful ability to layer a list of incoming emails on the left of the read/reply screen: you call it up when you want it, you hide it when you don't. If you really need to see it while you're writing, I suppose you could leave it there. But, mostly, I read my other windows, and then get back to writing (since i can remember nothing that's not in front of me, I'm looking at just which year it was that a T'ang dynasty poet was banished from the court-- you don't really blame me for forgetting that, do you?). So, though I might have my archive copy carefully on the desktop for multiple backup land and for major in the house writing, I'm going to be out at 4000 feet, sprawled on boulders, wind in my hair, writing away on my ipad. Look again at the Phill Schiller portion of the iPad presentation, the part where he's using Pages on the iPad. Cool.

It does come down to this: lots of battery power, beautiful screen, beautiful programs, lovely writing environment. We could selectively transfer bits of the notebook, say, while having the various sheets with us. My notebook is fat with facts and pics I've stuffed there with my infinite (ha!) HD capacity on the desktop. But the sheets take negligible space. Calling them up even from a popup window is enough access for me.

Why should Steve have any leisure time at all? Why should he have time to have a drink and watch a movie? Doesn't he want to be coding 24/7 on top of what he's already doing? Kidding, of course, but I think writers are one group that will have serious passions about iPad and not care what it costs. We are, after all, impractical, impulsive, self-indulgent, and, above all, American consumers.

[Steve]

Steve, on Feb 18 2010, 10:57 AM, said:

For the full interview, check out the TUAW article here.

-Steve

As of today, no longer "on the fence"

-Steve