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Have you tried using a touch-pad to rotate or move something lately? Twist your wrist in all kinds of unnatural directions, slide your fingers at unintuitive ra
by Retra 12y ago
Have you tried using a touch-pad to rotate or move something lately? Twist your wrist in all kinds of unnatural directions, slide your fingers at unintuitive rates, and maintain the perfect amount of pressure as you drag something without dropping it in a location you can't easily 'undo' from...
No thanks.
- agumonkey 12y agoIt's a software issue, it tooks a few years for people to develop desktop widgets, plus a few more for highend software to find better paradigms. I think people just dropped the ball on tablets because the money is made on other apps.
- Retra 12y agoI'm not sure that it is. I think it's a hardware issue: our screens are too flat, and our hands didn't evolve to use flat surfaces.
- agumonkey 12y agoThat's a valuable point. That said, let's not underestimate the capabilities nature built in us; our hands didn't evolve to play piano or guitar either. I won't ask people to grow internal and external skills as refined as actual musicianship, but with proper understanding of human memory and tactile sense, I'm sure one can find an interaction paradigm that will turn a tablet into another kind of bicycle for the mind.