* "Jonathan A. Rodriguez" <cameraboy9_at_yahoo.com> on Mon, 13 Aug 2001
| Laughable handwriting recognition!? As opposed to what, grafitti!?
The HWR engine in Newton Intelligence 1.x series is laughable. Those of us
with less than neat writing, or write in block caps (ie, like a draftsman),
have had great difficulty with it. And most southpaws have had even more
trouble; a version 1.x Newt can not recognize anything that they write. It
is ironic in hindsight that Grafitti was created for the Newton
specifically to address that shortcoming, long before the Palm Pilot.
The MP120, with the new engine, was an amazing difference. But by that
point it was common knowledge that Newton's HWR sucked. And since Apple
utterly failed to do anything to change that attitude... it has not
changed.
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