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touch and keyboard are different - 3 clickies
Authored by: dio gratia on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 03:26 PM EST

There's also Steve Jobs: Touchscreen Laptops Don't Work, the explanation expanded in Why ‘Gorilla Arm Syndrome’ Rules Out Multitouch Notebook Displays. Rebutted in the Slashdot entry Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops based on the Verge article Surprisingly, touchscreen laptops don't suck subtitled How Windows 8 challenged the 'gorilla arm' — and won.

The last an anecdotal account noting that "The touchscreen is a complement for mouse and keyboard". The explanation translating to higher user cognitive load and likely slower operation.

Even in Windows 8's desktop mode, which is still difficult enough to manipulate with touch alone that you'll probably want a mouse and keyboard, I'm constantly reaching up to that vertical touchscreen surface to grab windows and snap them to either side.
The constant back and forth away from a vertical screen alleviating gorilla arm syndrome symptoms caused by holding your arms up constantly.

Now the question is whether its all part of a grand design or simply fortuitous. You might need look no further than the Verge article for insight.

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