Review: Air Display turns iPad into pricy secondary display

$499 for a 9-inch secondary display? Before you write it off as a terrible idea, read on. The iPad and Air Display may surprise you.

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[Gary Patterson]

Hmm... all those RTS games, all those point-and-click adventure games... most of them are old enough that a little lag might be acceptable.

 

[Gary Patterson]

Gary: RTS on tablets don't work as well as you would expect, since you lose the ability to rapidly hot-key between groups of units.

Curses!

Well, at least I'll have those adventures and dungeon crawlers.

 

[Gary Patterson]

Perfect examples. Again, I'm not saying Apple hasn't taken things and made them popular, or work really well, just that they didn't blaze the trail per se.
Gui : something that pre-existed and apple made popular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_ ... ce#History

Same with the mouse: "The first marketed integrated mouse, shipped as a part of a computer and intended for personal computer navigation, came with the Xerox 8010 Star Information System in 1981. However, the mouse remained relatively obscure until the appearance of the Apple Macintosh."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_(computing)#Early_mice

Yes, these items weren't mainstream, but they existed and were in use (not just R&D). Apple built on them (sometimes) and popularized them. Embrace, Extend anyone

edit: just to be clear, I'm not trying to troll, just pointing out a behaviour that I've noticed.
On Topic: That does look really cool!

Wikipedia is a bit out on GUI history. Any article about GUI history that doesn't reference Jef Raskin's 1967 thesis "The Quick Draw Interface" is incomplete. Have a look at:

http://web.archive.org/web/200709280722 ... holes.html
http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html

Xerox built on Raskin's work, as he built on Sutherland's. As an Apple employee, Raskin did as much to create the GUI in concept and execution as the people at Xerox PARC, possibly much more in the conceptual stage. When Apple licensed some technology from Xerox, they used it to flesh out their existing designs, and then built upon it (for example, Xerox used no menu bar, just menu pop-ups).

Not that I'm saying Apple did everything. Just that they did a fair bit that history is attributing to others. It's an interesting digression, nothing relevant to the story, but interesting nonetheless.

(disclaimer: written from work while on a short break; memory used to fill in gaps...)