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they are trying to hard to force gestures and touch controls, just support wireless mouses

• ogre_codes 7y ago
  These are different things. You should first and foremost be able to do everything on the iPad (or any touch device) with touch and/ or gestures. As soon as you require a mouse (or stylus, trackpad/ whatever) on a tablet you've screwed up. The whole beauty of a tablet is in its portability. Having to rely on a mouse or trackpad screws that up. That said, mouse support for the iPad can and absolutely should be much better. Just never a requirement.
  • mwarkentin 7y ago
    They added mouse support with this release. It’s an accessibility feature, and it moves a “fake finger” as your control rather than a precise mouse pointer but apparently it works.
    • yodon 7y ago
      It "works" but an actual mouse pointer would have been much better for normal users. The accessibility feature is unfortunately not actually what people who want mouse support actually want.
      • thirdsun 7y ago
        I'm pretty sure Apple wants to avoid interfaces that target a real mouse pointer and aren't easy to use with finger input. And I think they are right about that: Every UI should be accessible with finger input only.
  • soup10 7y ago
    It's nearly trivial for apple to add proper mouse support and just have apps self-identify as needing mouse or not. There's lots of things where touch controls just don't work well and it's not about "screwing up" the design its just touch controls are bad at pointing precision and there's plenty of reasons an app developer would want to support normal mouse controls. Not every app needs to be use-able on the bus.