Monthly Archives: February 2023

Touch Support Versus A Touch First Experience

Matt Birchler wrote what I can’t help but feel was a rebuttal to my piece arguing that you can’t have a maximally productive touch UI on a portable screen. Here’s what I wrote: It’s foolishly optimistic to think that Microsoft or even Apple can make pointer interfaces as touch friendly as iPadOS without also destroying […]

Touchability, Productivity, and Portability — Pick Two

The venerable Federico Viticci has done it again! He has eloquently captured the iPad’s simplistic beauty… The iPadOS UI, particularly in tablet mode, feels nicer than any other tablet I’ve tried to date. …while simultaneously lamenting its low productivity ceiling. The problem is that an iPad, at least for people like me, isn’t supposed to […]