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Magic trackpad and iPad?

This may be too soon to ask but does anyone know if the new magic trackpad will link to iPad?

imac, macbook, ipod nano & iphone & iPad!, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jul 27, 2010 6:40 AM

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Jul 27, 2010 8:08 AM in response to lllaass

I don't want it to work like a mouse - I want it to work just like the iPad itself. When I put the iPad in a stand and use a wireless keyboard, it's not really convenient to have to touch the screen to work with text in pages, for example. If the magic trackpad would link, I could have all the same multitouch gestures right at hand without having to reach to touch the iPad itself. This would also be useful for those using the iPad keyboard dock...

But if it won't link, no prob!

Scott

Aug 3, 2010 6:09 AM in response to skopcho

To introduce the trackpad or a mouse as a pointing device should be rather simple. Compare the Wacom Bamboo pad. It maps the screen onto the pad, so that pointing at the pad has the same effect as pointing at the screen. The same should be possible with the magic trackpad. The cursor has little to do with it, but of course there are many apps that have one (webform, pages,...). I think it is an omission that we may link a keypad to the iPad but not a pointing device. Without one the docking station is quite useless.

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Aug 3, 2010 10:05 AM in response to celliott147

It's not about the cursor necessarily. It's about the gestures (for me at least).

Sure... there is no pointer on an iPad so you would find it hard to e.g. place the editing caret anywhere useful, but... it seems both natural and logical to me to give support for scrolling and left-right swiping with an external trackpad.

I see many possible uses... using VNC and iPad as a thin client the external keyboard and mouse/pad combination would be really useful for controlling your main Mac (or Mac TV for example).

Magic trackpad and iPad?

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