Apple Readying Multi-Touch Version of iWork for Tablet?
Posted January 9, 2010 at 3:04pm by iClarified
Apple has reportedly been working on a multi-touch version of iWork for the past couple years, according to a NYTimes article.
Conversations with several former Apple engineers who worked on the long-gestating tablet also suggest that Apple may be asking users to learn a somewhat complex new vocabulary of finger gestures to control it, making use of technology it acquired in the 2007 purchase of a company called FingerWorks.
The tablet should offer any number of unique multitouch experiences for example, three fingers down and rotate could mean open an application, said one former engineer.
These 'complex' new gestures were also reported by a CultofMac source, I just heard [to] be ready for a steep learning curve regarding the 'new' Apple product about to be released [and its] interface."
Its believed that one of the first applications to use these complex gestures will be iWork. A former Apple designer told the NYTimes that a team at the company had spent the past couple of years working on a multitouch version of iWork.
Its possible that this multi-touch version of iWork could ship with the tablet and be used to justify a higher selling price.
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Conversations with several former Apple engineers who worked on the long-gestating tablet also suggest that Apple may be asking users to learn a somewhat complex new vocabulary of finger gestures to control it, making use of technology it acquired in the 2007 purchase of a company called FingerWorks.
The tablet should offer any number of unique multitouch experiences for example, three fingers down and rotate could mean open an application, said one former engineer.
These 'complex' new gestures were also reported by a CultofMac source, I just heard [to] be ready for a steep learning curve regarding the 'new' Apple product about to be released [and its] interface."
Its believed that one of the first applications to use these complex gestures will be iWork. A former Apple designer told the NYTimes that a team at the company had spent the past couple of years working on a multitouch version of iWork.
Its possible that this multi-touch version of iWork could ship with the tablet and be used to justify a higher selling price.
Read More