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I wrote the first couple thousand words of a book on an iPad last summer and even using an external keyboard it as painful - you have to keep touching the scree
by youngtaff 12y ago
I wrote the first couple thousand words of a book on an iPad last summer and even using an external keyboard it as painful - you have to keep touching the screen to do things, which is a long stretch compared to using a trackpad or mouse
- coldpie 12y agoWhich is why I laugh when people waste time or money on alternate input methods that involve more than wiggling my fingers very slightly. No one wants to use a Minority Report style interface for more than three seconds. There's a reason input methods (mouse and pushing discrete things on a flat surface) haven't really changed in nearly fifty years, even with the advent of computers-in-your-pocket.