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Touch Screen Macs? Sacrilege!
Or so some seem to think
Apparently it is acceptable to prod and poke the screens of tablets and phones, or anything running Microsoft Windows, but you must never, ever put your grimy fingers upon the pristine screen of a Mac.
I couldn’t understand what the problem is. Do Macs bite or deploy electric shocks to defend their honor? Do they harbor viruses? Or perhaps they are simply too sensitive, too emotionally fragile, to bear the touch of human hands?
Whatever the cause, there are large numbers of people ready to defend the touchless state of affairs that has seemed inviolable ever since Steve Jobs proclaimed “We’ve done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical.”
Note: Steve had no comment when I and others bought Bluetooth keyboards for our OG iPads.
Well, I guess if Steve didn’t like it, that’s how it must be. I promise not to mention that Steve also saw no use for a mouse on the OG Macs. Oops, sorry.
Some of those naysayers point out that one’s arm would become excessively tired from reaching up to touch the screen of a Mac.
Nonsense, I say. I offer evidence from my own use of a keyboard for my iPad. Look at the shoulder…
