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If you’re reading this, there’s a better-than-average chance that you own an iPad. Have you tried to show it to someone extremely nontechnical, like that parent or grandparent who has never really used computers, or those friends who are always scared of technology because their computers always…
Insightful post, picking up on one of my biggest personal annoyances with the iPad to date. While it’s certainly the most intelligently designed touch device yet developed (from both a hardware and a software perspective), the iPad still fails to “understand” human interaction in a way that allows users to interact with it in a truly intuitive manner. I can’t count the number of times a gesture failed to register thanks to a thumb or finger resting unknowingly on the very edge of the touchscreen.
The good news: this is a software issue, and Apple is no doubt already at work on a more intelligent gesture recognition system.
