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Authored by: dio gratia on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 05:40 PM EST |
There's also an interesting article leading to all sorts of threads, No One Uses
Smart TV Internet Because It Sucks which squarely addresses user interface
usability. In effect no one really uses Smart TV's because the user interfaces
suck and there are alternatives.
This is the position Microsoft finds
itself in, instead counting on inculcation to adapt users to difficult to use
systems requiring effort on the order of programming VCRs. Unfortunately
Microsoft is late to the party and there are already easier to use alternative,
to which Microsoft applies mandatory upgrades through product obsolescence in a
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Authored by: jjs on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 08:37 PM EST |
But he didn't REALLY explain why I would want to use the
touchscreen when I have a mouse. I can do everything he
says with the mouse and keyboard easier, to include zooming
(CTRL-+).
"If you want to launch a program on your desktop, which
makes more sense? Reach down to a special glass surface and
drag a finger across it just long enough to land a floating
pointer arrow on top of the icon, and then tap? WHICH MAKES
MORE SENSE? Or simply reach up to a visible icon and tap it?
Why try to aim that pointer at a little X icon, or remember
keyboard shortcuts like Alt-F4, when I can just swipe down
from the top of the screen to close a Windows 8 program? Why
painstakingly zoom a web browser in 10 percent increments
using a disembodied keyboard or trackpad when you can
smoothly manipulate it between your fingers with pinch-to-
zoom? I now find myself doing, or at least wishing I could
do, these things all the time."
Note he puts them into questions - not statements. I can do
Alt-F4 without moving my hands from the keyboard and without
looking down. I can open a program by using my mouse to
move the pointer to the icon and clicking. Both with less
effort than reaching all the way to my screen with my arm
and dragging.
Touchscreens ARE nice in confined spaces, and on small
gadgets that can't take a real keyboard/mouse, or a small
portable device (tablet). But why would I want to spend all
that time reaching and dragging, pulling my hands away from
the keyboard, when I can do the same work with less effort
on the keyboard?
Of course, as I said, I type at over 100 wpm - so for me
keeping the hands on the home row is important.
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)
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