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tablet input

Shawn Blanc has posted a lengthy article summarizing all his Apple Tablet predictions. His last statement concerning text input was:

I personally wouldn’t rule out a full-width software keyboard that you touch type onto with all ten of your digits.

Honestly, I cannot see a ten finger keyboard possibly being the main text input method on the tablet. Imagine sitting on the New York subway with your shiny new Apple Tablet. You decide to write an email. You set the tablet down on your lap, bend your neck awkwardly downward, and start typing away in hopes that you wore tacky enough pants that day to keep your tablet from sliding around. To me that’s just not a possibility.

My feeling is that we are likely going to see some new form of text input that we have never thought of before. That would certainly explain rumors of a learning curve.