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Apple's key insight was that a touch screen demands a completely different UI than a mouse & keyboard. I predict that all these hybrid approaches are doomed to
by cageface 15y ago
Apple's key insight was that a touch screen demands a completely different UI than a mouse & keyboard. I predict that all these hybrid approaches are doomed to niche status. The impedance mismatch going back and forth between devices is a software problem that will be solved by deeper cloud integration.
- vetler 15y agoWell - yes and no. In many scenarios, there's no need for a completely different UI. Clicking links, buttons and input fields, for instance, doesn't require the UI to be that different. I don't disagree completely with you, of course. Things such as menus need to be very different. Perhaps the problem isn't that they need to be different - obviously a touch based UI needs to be different from normal operating system UI as it is now, but perhaps UI on normal operating systems could be closer to what's needed by touch interfaces?