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lockerc18

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May 17, 2012
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Just star gazing here... is there any chance of a Trackpad redesign sometime soon? The problem I have with it is that it's just too darn big. I know this has been discussed here before... but I have a 2019 13" MBP and the Trackpad drives me crazy. My palms will occasionally brush against it while I'm typing, and that makes the cursor jump around, and I end up typing in the middle of text I've aleady typed, and so I have to delete that and cursor back to where I was typing before that, and I lose my train of thought because I'm yelling at the Trackpad for being naughty, yada yada. It happens frequently enough that it's a real usability problem. I even wrote to Tim Cook about this a while back, and I didn't see a flood of responses back from him, for some reason...

Anyway, my thought was to give the Trackpad a size setting, so that the user can make the sensitive area of it larger or smaller, depending on what they like. Me, I'd make it pretty small to do away with this palm touch problem. I know, I know, I can just use a more upright typing method, but old dogs and new tricks.

Thoughts?
 
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