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For sure, the "Magic" mouse is another Apple entry in the Hall of Peripheral Shame. "Does anyone who stops to think about this for more than 2 seconds actually
by ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
For sure, the "Magic" mouse is another Apple entry in the Hall of Peripheral Shame.
"Does anyone who stops to think about this for more than 2 seconds actually want this?"
Really? Have you ever heard of Wacom? They built an entire company on people who want this, and it has been in business for decades. And of course you can see what you're writing, right there on the screen! The surface area of current Apple laptop trackpads is 33% larger than that of a Wacom Intuos tablet: https://i.imgur.com/D8pmsTC.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/D8pmsTC.jpeg
It has nothing to do with handwriting recognition, either. That's another area where Apple failed spectacularly to make the Pencil useful. All they had to do is add a single-character writing area to the standard keyboard on the iPad, as was nailed in the '90s by Palm. That way, ALL applications would have immediately have gotten handwriting-entry capability. Instead, Apple left it up to every application developer to implement it separately. Baffling.
- yunwal 3y agoWacom is a totally separate device from a laptop, and can be positioned so that you can comfortably write/draw while looking straight on at your screen.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoIt's woefully impractical for a laptop, specifically because it CAN'T be flexibly positioned where many people would want it. Plus, you'd have to lug an additional and cumbersome device around with you, occupy a USB port with it, and deal with a wire. All of that makes the trackpad a much better option.