Posted: Dec 17, 2020 9:28 am
felltoearth wrote:Also one thought that came to mind as I was drawing on my iPad today.
It wouldn’t surprise me that Apple releases a touch screen iMac now that they have this chip. Screen size has pretty much been the constraint. My guess is around the time time of the the 3rd gen of Silicon CPUs.
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That's great if you're using a laptop on your lap instead of a monitor on your desk unless you want a lot of useless desk real estate behind your monitor. Apple has engineered its OS user interface guidelines so that using a pointing device is increasingly clumsy (i.e., imprecise at the level of having to pay too much attention to where the cursor is). That is, it's only significant in manipulating user interface widgets, and this is even the case in OS versions as old as El Capitan. They're doing what they can to make it necessary to adopt swiping and tapping for those functions and for manipulating web pages and similarly-rendered shit, a sop to people whose hand-eye coordination stops short of deft. I'd love that if I were a user interface geek, but I spend too much time in the terminal at the keyboard to be impressed by how efficient that can be compared to expertise at using a keyboard. There's no comparison and that war can go right the fuck on without my input. Power users (the real ones) use the keyboard. Metrosexuals sitting in coffee shops or walking along the boulevard with their faces glued to their smartphones love touch screens. I want them to die in pedestrian-automobile collisions.