Comment by at1as

5 hours ago

"Touch screens don't want to be vertical" "After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off" "ergonomically terrible"

- Steve Jobs

Apple: check our new vertical touchscreen!

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perbu  3 hours ago

Jobs was wrong about a lot of things. Just because he thought an idea was silly, doesn't automatically make so.

  • mixmastamyk  2 hours ago

    He was right about this one. Never used the touchscreen on my old Dell except by accident, over the last decade. Shoulder gets tired holding up arms.

ChrisLTD  4 hours ago

Jobs died 15 years ago, and since then, Apple has been successfully selling iPads in vertical/laptop like configuration for nearly a decade.

  • aucisson_masque  3 hours ago

    And before he came back, apple was on the verge of bankrupt because people without any vision whatsoever took the lead.

    The same kind of people are now doing it again, it will take time but every decision apple has been taking is giving me a bad taste.

    even the evolution of macos and IOS. They are much closer to windows and android now.

    • grvbck  2 hours ago

      > even the evolution of macos and IOS.

      ESPECIALLY the evolution of macos and ios.

  • makeitdouble  4 hours ago

    The crucial part is, iPads can easily be detached from the keyboard when needed. Apple made a point to have very flexible keyboard cases for that.