>it was soft-real time: the delays were predictable and you could learn them too. Wow, well put! This is definitely something that we lost with the current gen

>it was soft-real time: the delays were predictable and you could learn them too. Wow, well put! This is definitely something that we lost with the current gen of interfaces, and this articulation didn't occur to me. Losing keypresses or clicks/touches at random, unpredictable freezes and/or delays on interactions, all this contributes to a general sense of unreliability and not being able to infer the state of the device. Consistency is actually a much more important metric than just plain latency.