“The iPad Pro’s last frontier is adding a trackpad to the Smart Keyboard,” Jean-Louis Gassée writes for Monday Note.
“Of course, if Apple does add a trackpad, Microsoft execs and users will say that they were right all along,” Gassée writes. “And perhaps they were: They had the right idea but the difference is in the implementation.”
Gassée writes, “On the Microsoft side, we see tablet features grafted onto a legacy operating system that’s even more riddled with old age issues than OS X.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Jean-Louis spills lots of bits wishing for a trackpad on his iPad when he already has a trackpad on his iPad!
This works for all iPads with iOS 9 and later: Turn your keyboard into a trackpad. Touch and hold the keyboard with two fingers until it turns light gray. Drag around the keyboard to position the insertion point. Lift, then touch and hold with two fingers to reveal the drag points. Move your fingers to select text. Tap with two fingers to select a word. Double-tap with two fingers to select a sentence. Tap three times with two fingers to select a paragraph.
The iPad Pro is not meant for older generations. Unless they are willing to completely unlearn and let go of old tricks and learn new ones. That’s very tough to do for some. Those are the people who ask questions like “Where my physical trackpad to go with my physical keyboard?”, “Is it a sketch pad?”, “Is it a laptop replacement?” iPad Pro and iOS are really for the young and for future generations. It is the future. Until the next paradigm shift, perhaps decades away, Multi-touch will be how most people compute, not with physical keyboards, mice, cursors, exposed file systems, etc.
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