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Just a thought. Instead of replacing the f keys and escape, they should have just replaced the whole area under the keyboard where the trackpad is with a touch
by pampa 6y ago
Just a thought. Instead of replacing the f keys and escape, they should have just replaced the whole area under the keyboard where the trackpad is with a touch screen. It is a win-win. Imagine a huge touch interface where we already expect one, with haptic feedback AND visual feedback.
- dmitriid 6y agoWe can already imagine that. Apple increased the size of the touchpad for no good reason. And palm rejection constantly fails causing the cursor to jump as you're typing or pressing key shortcuts.
- breakfastduck 6y agoI can see them expanding the cursor behavior in iPadOS into macOS, where its magnetic and it's more like a touch surface. If there was any trackpad to pull that off its the macbook trackpads.
- dmitriid 6y agoWhy would you ever want that in a desktop OS?
- breakfastduck 6y agoIt depends on the execution. It feels super nice on iPad and if you're running a Catalyst app or such on macOS that's designed for it, it could be cool to be able to toggle between the cursors.
- dmitriid 6y ago> It feels super nice on iPad Because it's an iPad. > on macOS That's a desktop OS with an entirely different ... well, everything. Including precision positioning of the cursor. I can only see it as an accessibility option (in this case it might work well).
- breakfastduck 6y agoI would agree on the macOS point right now, but big surs design style leans heavily towards a style that would probably work quite well with it. I would only want it as an option, I would in no way want it to be the only option. I just think the different cursor types could benefit different types of applications.
- sergeykish 6y agoAsus ZenBook Pro Duo has a huge secondary display on top of the keyboard. Alternatively Macbook already has big touchpad, add a screen like Asus ScreenPad.