a bit of hoopla regarding the possibly leaked photos of the possible new keyboard design for the Apple desktop line got me thinking about what connections may exist between this and Apple’s other much-discussed new keyboard - the virtual one in the iPhone.
so i pose a question: as computers get smarter and smarter at interpreting more subtly-nuanced gestures (e.g., increasing and decreasing the hotzone around the keys it suspects we might be attempting to hit, learning words we type more frequently, etc.), and as we learn to trust our computer’s ability to “know what we meant,” will we start to see more of the iPhone’s auto-correcting functionality in the physical keyboard’s desktop-based application? follow-up: what other input devices will be granted this new intent-based awareness and feedback (voice-to-text, mouse/cursor movement, combinations thereof)? since this blog doesn’t allow comments, i guess… just think about it and then think of me.
