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Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by perlpimp on Saturday January 05, 2013 @12:30PM (#5013270)
"You eraserhead people are weird."

TrackPoint has been the most efficient way to get cursor around the screen. Touch interfaces are somewhat there but as per professional software development they are not. And so for other areas. Touch interfaces are inefficient, moving hands around is more difficult then fiddling with track point - as what we weirdos do.

Anyway. Its stupid. What you want doesn't matter, what is amazing will come and bite you and you will be surprised. Thats how it works. Period. "Or Revolution will not be televized" etc etc..

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Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by shanselman on Saturday January 05, 2013 @02:01PM (#5013599)
I hear you but if that were the case, wouldn't the iPad have a Trackpoint? Seems the TrackPoint will always be a niche, like the SpaceOrb - a superior controller, unquestionably, but still the one that lost.
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