iPad vs. proper punctuation use: The battle is joined.

[firecat]

I borrowed my dad's iPad and tried to touch-type (in landscape mode):

Mary had a little lamb; its fleece was white as snow.

The iPad has word suggestion built in. When I typed "its," the iPad suggests "it's".

The way you tell the iPad to accept the word it is suggesting is to type a space.

So much for touch-typing.

*sigh* I miss the Newton.

Comments

[snippy]

Heh. I caught on to the Palm's onscreen shorthand pretty quickly. If only I hadn't dropped the darn thing so many times--it should have had a wrist safety band like the Wiimote and my digital camera have.

[firecat]

Yeah, I got pretty good with the Palm's shorthand too, back when I had one.

[amadi]

I have trained my iPhone against the its->it's thing by use, I think that they do eventually learn. Of course, touch typing on an iPhone isn't possible anyway. Unless you're a Barbie doll!

[firecat]

It's good to know that they learn.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

I remember that one ;-)

[kwamee.livejournal.com]

Well, DJ RanaJune thinks that iPads are good for something... but she did use two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHPmcU13_mU&feature=player_embedded

[firecat]

That's great! I do think the iPad has potential as a music-making/enhancing device. If I were to buy one, that's probably what I would use it for the most.

(Who am I kidding. I would use it for Bejeweled the most.)