On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:40 AM, tjpa <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > Exactly, hence my comment about lack of imagination and illusions to > parallel ports. Whenever somebody innovates we see a swell of nay sayers who > can't imagine that anything could be done differently than it is being done > currently. And around here great umbrage that blinders are being disturbed.
Using a finger to activate a touch screen is no longer innovative. That has been around for a long time. You are giving Mr. Jobs credit he does not deserve in this instance. Neither I or anybody else has said that no drawing or input should be realized by way of the finger on a tablet-based computer. I have advocated for either a finger or a fine tipped stylus. In simple terms, a choice. Mr. jobs abhors choice in this instance and seeks to deny it. Thus I disagree with him and point out technical reasons why I disagree. Technical reasons are something that he totally left out of his rant against styli. The closest he came to technical was the use of the relatively childish word "yuck." > Did anyone notice that most drawing programs are operated using a mouse and > that moving a mouse requires the use of one's entire arm, including a whole > bunch of fingers. Both mouse and arm are considerably larger than a finger. > Yet it works fine. I truly believe that you have seriously missed the point. Placing one's finger upon an iPhone screen in order to draw covers a portion of the screen that is probably close to the amount of screen area that would be covered were I to place my entire hand upon the screen of my iMac. Would I like to draw in such a fashion? Would that be the best option? > I expect that the iPad will bring an explosion of innovation in user > interfaces. Quite possibly. One of the first just might be a stylus offered by Apple. Consumer demand, you know. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
