Maes
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Mr. T said:
Touch keyboards are fine once you get used to them.
So are crutches, but you can't run with them. You can't replace a superior control and input scheme with an inferior one, period. The single most important parameter for any keyboard is size, accuracy, and finger positioning and sensory feedback, and as of now touch screens lack in all of these sectors.
Sure, if you make a touchscreen as large as my standard desktop keyboard, it probably won't lack in finger positioning and size, but the lack of push-in feedback will make it feel like smashing your fingers on a plank of wood. Not good, even if you manage to lay it out flat on a table.
It will require extra effort to balance the -counterintuitive- lack of a key's giving-in and thus 'registering' it as a valid keypress at a mental level. Idem, not good. Imagine trying to drive a car or pilot a n airplane with no other feedback than pure visuals, not even that of a stick in your hands: not good.
No physical keys also means that you can't type without looking at the keys. That's the single most important factor, apart from size.
Mr. T said:
The 21st century is waiting for you!
If that's what the "21st century" has to offer, I remind you that it also offers Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree and the non-multitasking iPad ;-)
A bad, inefficient and half-assed idea is still a bad, inefficient and half-assed idea no matter what century you implement it in or how many corporate buzzwords you can throw at it (at least if you're not an iConsumer).
With that logic, I could sell aluminum-foil wrapped turds, and since none did it before, pass it on as a 21st century "NEW and ENHANCHED!!!! NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!!" novelty, and "pwn" any naysayers by calling them luddites. There has to be a limit, and for me that's when novelty overrides convenience and practical value. Graphing calculators are tools, not iGay toys to be sold to dumb blond bimbos, so you can't have the same standards for both.
Mr. T said:
I think for most people (students etc.) who aren't professionals would be able to get a lot better CBR out of a free iPhone app than a $100+ graphing calculator.
Sorry, but students are going to be professionals one day, and I for one can't imagine an engineering student that doesn't have at least a standard scientific calculator (I made do with a non-graphical programmable one, the Sharp EL-5120) or doesn't consider getting one.
OK, someone who is e.g. a literature graduate and doesn't want to pay $100 just to try plotting some equations, that makes sense. But could you imagine a professional chef buying a Barbie plastic kitchenware set instead of proper cookware?
Last edited by Maes on 02-24-11 at 12:45
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