Comment by mrob
7 days ago
UI on phone apps still is terrible. Have you ever used a desktop with high-end gaming peripherals (fast monitor/keyboard/mouse), running a light desktop environment such as LXQt on Xorg, with animations disabled? The feeling of responsiveness leaves all mobile devices in the dust. Any modern CPU+SSD is fast enough, but good peripherals are still rare and make a huge difference. Most phones are still running 60Hz displays. A touchscreen is inherently clumsy compared to mouse+keyboard. Mobile UI feel is worse than desktop computers from the 90s.
"have you ever done this indescribably niche thing, which I believe renders your argument null and void, but is in fact not relatable in the slightest?"
Good UI latency used to be standard:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33683278 )
The fact that it requires niche hardware and software (not "indescribably" niche) to achieve in modern times is a failure of the computer industry, not a problem with my argument. Low standards do not make mobile devices good.
And touch screen are impossible to fix even with niche configurations. I have no way to shrink my fingers to pixel size, and no way to make them transparent.