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>Surely Apple has seen Windows 8 and realised these touch approaches will always be suboptimal at best for non-touch devices? Windows 8's demise stems from its
by Dalewyn 4y ago
>Surely Apple has seen Windows 8 and realised these touch approaches will always be suboptimal at best for non-touch devices?
Windows 8's demise stems from its schizophrenic design language, something Windows still suffers to this day (though it's getting better).
Touch interactions in and of itself on Windows is fine and sufficiently servicable. It's not as quick as keyboard nor as comfortable as mouse, but it certainly works and is by far the most intuitive to the touchscreen generation.
- jeroenhd 4y agoVery true, if you have a touch screen then Windows will work fine. However, macOS doesn't have touch screen support, so the change in paradigm will be as jarring as during the introduction of Windows 8, back when desktops and laptops had didn't get produced with touch screens except for extremely niche models. WinRT was an excellent platform to use (with no apps to take advantage of the hardware) but Windows 8 on a non-tablet is as jarring as mobile apps running on desktop. They work, but that's about all the good things you can say about them.