Apple announces March 7 iPad 3 event

Ha! I accidentally hit submit before I was done ranting, so please see my first post before reading this one. This brings me to my second point: iOS knowing a users intensional even if the gesture is less than perfect. Apple already touts that it's multi-touch surface has technology to ignore unintentional taps and this algorithm would be massive improved by the device knowing how hard the user is pressing; delineating a swipe from a graze.
The last argument for a pressure sensitive multi touch is likely the one Apple would tout the most; better gaming. Obviously pressure sensitive controls have been standard since the DualShock2. If you have ever played any iOS game involving a car you already know the shortcomming; how firmly is a user pressing the gas or brake? While crafty devs may make UIs to allow for inensity determination, this is no replacement for the device understanding how the user is pressing.
The argument could be made that others have tried and failed to do tis sort of thing, recent memory recalls the abysmal click-screen from the Blackberry Storm lineup. For the attempts I've seen, the isuzu has been poor implementation, something that Apple prides itself on. The main criticism of my theory I hear is "that not how capacitive touch works, dumba**!" I know... But my hope is that Apple will augment its hardware to allow for these advances.
Lastly, while Steve famously despised the stylus; many users do not judging by the number of third party styli available. Hopefully whatever tech may allow for pressure sensitivity will also make for better writing (and drawing) implements. In three days, if I'm right, somebody owes me a Coke, dang it!
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I've been mulling this over for a few days, and I'd like to make a prediction I have yet the blogosphere to make. I think the lack of a home button is a heavy-handed decoy to do nothing more that ellicit buzz around the keynote. However the non-sentence "And touch." is intensionaly eluding to some advance in the product. Everyone knows you touch an iPad to use it, do they relly feel the need to reinforce that at this point? If Apple is actually referring to the touch capabilities of the iPad, there has always been a glaring absence to anyone who's ever used a digitizer (read as the things that used to be called tablets). Pressure sensitivity has been baked Into Intuos products and old school tablet PCs for decades. The implications for more sophisticated and intuitive gestures in iOS is huge if the device knows how firmly the user is pressing. For example, while I am thankful for the long delayed copy/paste interface, it is not "Apple elegant." imagine that somewhat clumsy process being replaced with a more intuitive one: lightly dragging to place your cursor then more firmly pressing to make a selection, without even lifting your finger.

dude ! the ipad looks bigger ! look at the icon and his finger ! its like half the icon! and people say the ipad 3 will be smaller???? i think it will be even bigger unless its a kids hand... THIS IS SOOOO AWESOME!

It'll be the new iPad 3 and a new iPod Touch...

Also waiting for the new MacBook Airs (13" and 15") to be released...

As for a touch screen iMac, don't need all those fingerprints on my screen...

As for an Apple TV, don't need that once Mountain Lion comes out and I can throw all my stuff via AirPlay onto my TV from my Mac or iDevice... Just come out with a cool remote control app for my Mac or iDevice and no more iDevices to get for a while...

TIMEZONE FOR SYDNEY:

Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 5:00:00 AM

Smudge-less glass.

why delete??
competiotion to iPad 2

I have made a competition image with my iphone of my iPad 2 so you can se the higher resolution..
May you like to use the image in your article?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/204/ipad2pm.jpg/

Now I get the invite.

Something you have to see = Apple TV (the box not an actual TV)
And touch = iPad 3

Curious that it's not being held and is table top while looking totally stable, and with a nice space between the hard surface and the device. that thing is pretty high off the ground compared to a standard ipad. i dont see them making them any thicker, so im curious why the big gap + not being in-hand.