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Sliding your fingers on glass/plastic has roughly just one primitive analog in the real-world: dragging paper on a flat surface. Scrolling a virtual map or zoom
by vortico 7y ago
Sliding your fingers on glass/plastic has roughly just one primitive analog in the real-world: dragging paper on a flat surface. Scrolling a virtual map or zoomed-in digital photo is a rare application of that. Everything else that touch screens can do are very poor analogies of real-world things we can do with our hands and fingers, like press buttons and turn knobs.
- matt-attack 7y agoI wonder if I've ever in my life, pressed my pointer finger onto any piece of paper (map or otherwise) which was sitting on a table in order to drag the paper around. Certainly to point, but never to drag.