[LINK] iPad - where's the pad?

[Peter Batchelor]

I felt the same thing...
As a comparison, I dragged out my ancient Newton, changed the battery,  
and surprise surprise, it still recognises my horrible cursive  
handwriting!
Apple could make it work back in 1995, so it seems a backwards step  
not to be able to include it now.
This was one of the key features missing when I changed to a Palm, and  
had to learn the graffiti script that it used instead of standard  
characters.

Peter

On 29/01/2010, at 11:46 AM, Graham Greenleaf wrote:

> The app that is missing for me is that I expected a writing pad /
> note pad on which I could use some type of pen to make written notes
> in meetings, lectures etc and save them for later filing on my Mac.
> Would be nice if some form of handwriting recognition worked well
> enough to produce a draft, when it was important enough to want to
> distribute to others (minutes of meetings etc) but for most purposes
> (with memories of Newton) saving handwritten notes would do fine.
>
> Anyone reckon this is in the 'coming soon' list?