Observations and opinions from 2 years ago
I had an iPad Pro 12.9" and the only time the smudges were a bother was when sunlight hit it and I see it on a dark screen or it turned off. When the screen is ON, no problem as Apple has been selling iPad for years and it is the only successful tablet on the market I would not consider it a big issues from a few forum members. Even though my MBP is not a touch screen I usually wipe it with a microfibre cloth once a week.
Yes, the are old but I just grabbed the first search on MR. At any rate, as with all the issues discussed on MR forums, it isn't a big issue and forims tend to be echo chambers that make every issue seem bigger tahn it really is.
Hmm yet it seems Apple is trying to make an iPad into a notebook. Maybe the future ARM MacBook will have a touchscreen and merge the iPad Pro line, dunno.
I think that is where we ultimately will wind up at some point. Even the Newton added a keyboard to be more of a portable computer at the time; I think it is inevitable that any device with a form factor the size of a laptop, such as tablets, will be viewed more and more as "computers" as they gain processing power and features.
macOS is not finger input friendly as the elements on screen are too small and narrow spaced, the cursor via mouse or TrackPad is supposed to mimic a virtual pointer or finger without touching the screen
I agree, which is why I think a touch screen, without major OS changes, would be a messy kludge and a big bag of hurt.
. The problem is that it is not personal or engaging as human interact with things in the physical world. When one presses a button you have a tactile feel, when one turns a knob you turn your fingers and depending wrist. These engaging feedback responses are lost completely with a cursor via TrackPad or mouse.
I most certainly agree with this. Proper tactile feedback goes a long way to making devices usable, as does bad feedback lead to mistakes. While I agree a mouse or touchpad lakes the feedback from grasping and turning, proper use of haptic feedback can provide the same sense of action when one adapts to the actions being done. For example, when one clicks on a button. A touchscreen would provide even less tactile feedback unless a haptic engine is built in.
I think we may see a haptic keyboard with no moving keys before we see touch screens on a Mac.
A pencil narrows the gap as it is something we are very familiar with grabbing and holding things. When we interact with a touch display it is another form to narrow the gap as it represents moving virtual objects with a physical gesture. AirGestures feels like pseudo-telepathy, the problem with its present implementation is that it needs to be refined which will eventually happen.
The thing about touch vs mouse/touch pad is both provide the same visual feedback when moving objects, but the touchscreen is obscured by the hand. However, as technology and designs improve I don't doubt that one day a touch screen will be standard; just it is not nearly there yet.
I played around with the Jump device a while back and while it had a lot of potential it was useless in a real world application. I would have loved to be able to run a presentation in front of a large group and simply point left or right to change slides but it was not even able to do that reliably. The technology has potential.
If Apple does build in 3D sensing capablity in the next iPhone that may be a way to build a finer control system for the Mac via the iPhone.
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b/c majority of peripherals still uses usb-a format.
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the issue is having one extra thing to carry around, my bag is crammed alrdy don't want to log dongles too.
why is it always either usb-c or no usb-c with you guys, usb-a still the most used port despite apple try moving away in 2016. why not have a combination of usba and usb-c with a hdmi port since thats not going away either. folks still use sd slot as well. this trend of forcing you to use usb-c only if you wanna stick with osx is ridiculous.
I found it pretty straight forward to simply buy a new set of cables relatively cheaply and ditch the USB A ones; resulting in no additional items in my bag. The one thing I miss is an SD card slot and my Nifty Drive as I used it to backup my documents via CCC in case my Mac died.
