I keep seeing a control surface when I look at the iPad. The whole tablet computer idea is meh for me, but I'm imagining it as a "soft console" audio mixing board for a musician, or displaying a couple of virtual turntables for a DJ. Or, more in my line of work, a touchscreen console for radio operators. Any sort of professional application that would benefit from faders, knobs, zoom, multitouch physics and so on could use a control surface like this. And in a dedicated control-surface application, the lack of multitasking capability is no problem.
This first release doesn't look optimal for these purposes. Almost any application like this would need external hardware for processing, and this thing doesn't have enough horsepower or ports. But I expect to see these in artists' hands on stage sometime later this year. And Apple's much vaunted Top-Secret design silo failed them this time: one normal everyday focus group session would have brought out the sniggers when they said the name the first time. Michael Micheletti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48704 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
