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I was kind of interested in the keyboard dock at first glance. Here's a way to turn an iPad into a simple computer that my kid can use for school tasks or email without trashing my desktop computer setup.

But on second glance: how do you drive the UI from the keyboard? Can you use a mouse? Are you going to have to lift your arms and gesture all over the place to open a file, change apps, etc?

If they have an answer to the second problem, watch this thing get pushed heavily at the education market in the fall.




It supports a bluetooth keyboard, it seems sensible it would support a bluetooth mouse.


I imagine multi-touch will be natural and integral enough that people will forego the mouse altogether. Although, I suppose a magic mouse might fit the bill (haven't used one yet).


So now the iPhone OS supports a mouse cursor? That seems unlikely. That's my big fear here.




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