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"it’s more of a way to enhance interaction by creating dynamic buttons that are application dependent." But this is fundamentally touch-typist unfriendly. And m
by xixixao 8y ago
"it’s more of a way to enhance interaction by creating dynamic buttons that are application dependent." But this is fundamentally touch-typist unfriendly. And most serious professionals, most people who actually try to maximize their productivity, will be at some level of touch typing - not having to look at the keyboard while they type. So this makes much more sense for non-professional use cases - where the iPad might already be a winner anyway.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a defensive patent that never makes it into a product.
- dreamcompiler 8y agoThey might be assuming that most computer users nowadays never learned to touch type. Maybe they're right. Anybody know the current statistics on this?
- dgzl 8y agoI would bet you're right. As soon as an option was presented for using computer functions away from the PC (i.e. smartphones), people ditched the keyboard and desk.