Re:Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse ...
by dpark on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:14PM
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No, I don't think "lack of tactile feedback" is, by itself, sufficient to demonstrate that touchscreens are a bad idea for laptops. There's nothing I can see about laptops that make the lack of tactile feedback a bigger concern than it is for other devices.
Lack of tactile feedback might be a bigger problem on laptops, but the reason it's a bigger problem is not self evident.
Re:Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse ...
by khedoros1 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:17AM
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> here's nothing I can see about laptops that make the lack of tactile feedback a bigger concern than it is for other devices.
Agreed, there's nothing about it that makes it a bigger concern for a laptop than other devices. Touchscreens as inputs are suboptimal on other devices too. They're uncomfortable, slow, and imprecise.
I'm a huge fan of physical buttons. Sadly, it's impractical to have a phone with a screen large enough to be useful, thin enough to fit nicely in a pocket, and have it equipped with decent input.
The touch interface on my phone and tablet compromises some of the usability of the input to gain a ton of flexibility and portability. Laptops compromise some comfort and size to make it feasible to stick a keyboard and pointer device into a thin, portable computer.
The various compromises are worth it in some situations and very out-of-place in others. I don't really see the point of a touch interface for general desktop/laptop use.