Why do you believe you need to keep your laptop to print as you can print from an iPad or iPhone,
Why do you believe you need to keep your laptop to print as you can print from an iPad or iPhone
This question keeps coming up and I even heard customers at an Apple store asking about it amongst themselves. How can there be a mouse when there isn't even a pointer?
The emotional responses to physical keyboards and/or mice is one of those eternal mysteries... like "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop?"the addition of a mouse would create it's own pointer
yes, it's a touch device. so use your finger, but where's the harm in letting mouse people plug in a mouse too if wanted? why should the twain ever meet and argue about it? if you want a mouse then have one, if you dont then dont have one. why an issue? why argue?
Forty-two.The emotional responses to physical keyboards and/or mice is one of those eternal mysteries... like "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop?"
With the keyboard cover, its laptop like. With a trackpad and mouse--ipp would be ios hybrid laptop.Why would someone want a mouse with a tablet computer? It's a touch screen device.
Editing photos for example. How do you use a lassotool when your finger is blocking you to see what you are selecting...
Doing whatever presentation/editing. To select something is horrible by fingers - because you cant see through your flesh...
the addition of a mouse would create it's own pointer
yes, it's a touch device. so use your finger, but where's the harm in letting mouse people plug in a mouse too if wanted? why should the twain ever meet and argue about it? if you want a mouse then have one, if you dont then dont have one. why an issue? why argue?
There's a LOT of harm. Because...if you allow a mouse and pointer, then developers will start creating apps that need the pinpoint accuracy of a mouse, to the detriment of people who want to use their fingers. Apps that are optimized for a finger will be inconsistent with one that is optimized for a mouse and vice versa. This is with regards to both the UI elements (buttons, sliders, etc) as well as interactivity (swipes, gestures, etc). Too many choices with regards to design leads to inconsistency, which leads to complexity, which leads to a poor user experience.
There's a LOT of harm. Because...if you allow a mouse and pointer, then developers will start creating apps that need the pinpoint accuracy of a mouse, to the detriment of people who want to use their fingers.
That's a strawman argument. There have been hardware keyboards for the iPad since day-1. Remember Apple's keyboard dock for the iPad 1? The availability of a physical keyboard didn't produce apps that took advantage of keyboard shortcuts that were more viable on a physical keyboard. Apple produces the Pencil. It is capable of navigating iOS and apple isn't concerned about compromising the touch interface. That's because it is unfounded.There's a LOT of harm. Because...if you allow a mouse and pointer, then developers will start creating apps that need the pinpoint accuracy of a mouse, to the detriment of people who want to use their fingers. Apps that are optimized for a finger will be inconsistent with one that is optimized for a mouse and vice versa. This is with regards to both the UI elements (buttons, sliders, etc) as well as interactivity (swipes, gestures, etc). Too many choices with regards to design leads to inconsistency, which leads to complexity, which leads to a poor user experience.
Touch isn't as effective as pointer for any productivity app--except graphics. Anyone want to build a complicated spread sheet using touch? Edit video? page layout? People want it use their fingers can stick with consumption apps and games.
Now, having said that, I have to wonder if Apple might have something else up their sleeve. The Pencil is an interesting device, and may point to a future where it, and not a mouse/trackpad, is the precision pointing device. That still doesn't help the upright-screen use case (much better served by a trackpad/mouse), but I have to wonder if Apple's reluctance to enable a more "desktop-ish" experience with a pointing device might be because they know something better is in the works.
Using a pen/pencil as a precision on screen pointing device is fatigueing and annoying----try it some time
I will, as soon as Apple gets me a Pencil!Using a pen/pencil as a precision on screen pointing device is fatigueing and annoying----try it some time
I needed to get a new iPad and a new lap top. So instead I'm thinking of getting the Pro and keeping the laptop for things like printing etc. Will there be a mouse one can buy to use on the iPad Pro in the office?