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Re:The iPad's new cursor and keyboard by partiallypro on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:28PM (#23099032)
I don't think this (meaning the cursor) is "reinventing" anything, it's actually a work around because the iOS UX doesn't have good non-touch affordances. It will be dumbed down over time, and apparently you can turn it off.
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Re:The iPad's new cursor and keyboard by bitwize on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:29PM (#23099404)
Android devices, with a mouse or trackpad connected (e.g., Asus Transformer series), have shown an alpha-blended disc instead of an arrow pointer since forever ago, so not even that bit is an Apple innovation.
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Re:The iPad's new cursor and keyboard by gowld on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:10AM (#23102533)
Custom cursors have been in OSes for decades.
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Re:The iPad's new cursor and keyboard by anthk_ on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:57AM (#23100431)
Scummvm has that on Android too.
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