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Originally Posted by techweenie
... Our O/S was designed to work with touchscreen devices, not adapted to them. ...
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Well that is not very accurate.
It's more that the iPaid/iPhone/iPod have been design to work with a giant/crude selection area. (again, the appeal for kids is there)
Whereas the windows machines have been built around having a high level of
selection precision. That is, click/selection (for Windows tablets) areas are generally smaller than the touch area of ones fleshy fat finger squished against the glass of a tablet.
This is good and bad. For those who don't know Windows tablets generally have a stylus --a pointy device with well over 10x the precision of one's typical fleshy fat finger squished against the glass of a tablet.
The
good of this is not completely obvious. I mean, sure, more precision... so what? But the thing is, for tablets to be both small and useful, the screen resolution needs to be high (like the iPhone4 - 'retina display' and others).
AND... to interact with high-res screens one needs EQUALLY high selection precision. ...or at least within a magnitude! sheesh--c'mon, Apple.
I mean, just look at what the typical mouse does. . . one can move to and select any given screen pixel. ...just how many pixels get selected within the region of a touch of a fleshy fat finger squished against the glass of a iPhone4? . .. 100? ...200?
OTOH, it's clear that there is a child-like draw to the big fleshy fat finger flicks against the glass of a tablet device. To that end HP (w/ the Slate 500) seems to be on top of the game. They opted to integrate both a cap-sens (fleshy fat finger squished against the glass) input AND/OR a magnetic stylus. This gives the user a choice of input precision. (I know, 'choice' confuses the iFanboys) Anyway, the precision is there, allowing the screen content to be dense, rather than big cartoon-like touch areas.(iChild)
Aside thought. Ever notice how the local news roll their stories out, as if talking to a 10 year old? . . . that's how I believe Apple finds appeal (a peal? - no wait; let's not confuse the 10 year olds)