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Argue it's obsolete if you want, but it isn't progress to require me to use a touchscreen with my giant fat fingers
by pekk 13y ago
Argue it's obsolete if you want, but it isn't progress to require me to use a touchscreen with my giant fat fingers
- shinratdr 13y agoActually, it's almost the definition of progress. So often for real progress to be made, those who swear by the old system have to be ignored and abandoned because the only feedback they can provide is "leave everything the same".
- ekianjo 13y agoYeah, that's why the mouse is still around and has never been replaced by anything else on actual desktop computers ?
- electrum 13y agoI replaced the mouse a long time ago with a Magic Trackpad and never looked back.
- ekianjo 13y agoI guess you don't have a gaming life.
- __--__ 13y agoI tried that. It was wildly inaccurate as far as gesture detection and even click detection. Two finger taps for right clicks would frequently be detected as a single finger click. The problems got worse the more advanced the gestures got. In theory, I love the magic trackpad. Now I just need one that works as advertised.
- shinratdr 13y agoThat has absolutely nothing to do with anything I said. We also still use cups to hold water and plates to eat food off of. What is your point? Some things don't progress? You're right. I don't see how that relates though.
- justin66 13y agoIs using the keyboard with its tiny little buttons really that much better for you? As someone who can touch type reasonably well I have always found both the touchscreen virtual keyboard on my Android phones and the n900 physical keyboard rather annoying.
- chimeracoder 13y ago> Is using the keyboard with its tiny little buttons really that much better for you? It's way, way better. On my old Blackberry, I could type as fast as I could write by hand. (The Blackberry didn't even do any form of auto-correction or text-prediction). I don't even have very large fingers, but there's a huge benefit to having the tactile feedback when typing quickly. Similarly, I'm dramatically slower on a full-size touchscreen "keyboard" than on a physical keyboard. Of course, this effect is more noticeable the faster you type. I notice it a lot, because on a physical keyboard, I can theoretically type ~100 wpm[0]. In practice, this means I end up typing as fast as I think (which is obviously slower than 100wpm). On a touchscreen "keyboard", I can't type as fast as I can think, and it's incredibly frustrating to keep halting my train of thought so what's on the screen can catch up. [0] for a typing test, where I don't have to stop and think about what I'm typing.
- justin66 13y ago> Of course, this effect is more noticeable the faster you type. I type pretty fast and I've never noticed it, so this seems like a very subjective thing to me. I'm just trying to understand that point of view. I would have to go back to the n900 and use it for a while to get a handle on why I really never missed its keyboard much at all. It has been a while. The only thing I remember missing is the ease of using modal keys versus the android (Samsung, I suppose) touch keyboard app, where you have to shift to a completely different keyboard to use symbols and then switch back when you're done. I find that distracting.
- PhasmaFelis 13y ago> Is using the keyboard with its tiny little buttons really that much better for you? They're no less tiny than the keys on the screen, plus they're tactile. In other words, yes, absolutely.