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As a Pixel owner I can confirm that touch on a laptop form factor is somewhat useless. There are precious few times I want to reach out to touch something inst
by ChikkaChiChi 13y ago
As a Pixel owner I can confirm that touch on a laptop form factor is somewhat useless. There are precious few times I want to reach out to touch something instead of using the mouse.
The mouse really is a great tool. People need to stop trying to get rid of them.
- stcredzero 13y agoExactly. Just because we can now do basic car maintenance without a wrench, doesn't mean it's time to get rid of wrenches.
- dman 13y agoI suspect this is a generational thing. Kids seem to reach for the screen to touch it all the time.
- tehwalrus 13y agoI (27, UK) was at a hackathon late last year where there were schoolkids (~17). They were all developing on windows 8 laptops, one of them even had a surface, and they all had brand new nokia Windows Phones. This initially freaked me out until I realised that they were all learning VB at school (shudder), and were just tooling up to use what they already knew. I was encouraged that one of them had had a look at another language (Perl, of all things) and encouraged him to take a look at Python instead; citing xkcd of course. Anyway, they were all very excited by touchscreen laptops, and actually using them while trying to do development. It was weird.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoOh don't get me wrong, people like to touch my screens. They just might not have any fingers left if they actually do. :)
- dman 13y agoCute kids are supremely adept at taming finger biting demons.