I just tried on an Apple laptop (MacBook Pro mid-2010) and the outer of the trackpad feels just rugged enough so that you immediately notice the difference. How can a good trackpad even be if you can’t distinguish by feel the difference between the trackpad and the laptop itself? And don’t answer by telling me “with the borders”, I shouldn’t have to wiggle my finger around just to feel the borders of the trackpad.
The first picture from the aforementioned article says it all. There are few true attempts at customer satisfaction because they won’t do the R&D & design necessary to make the feature most satisfying. They have no interest in your long-term happiness, since whoever made the hardware can blame the software and vice-versa. Imagine a $80k car with a horrible steering wheel and dashboard controls that only sort of work.Ĭomputer manufacturers not named Apple have rarely cared about how clumsy or useless a feature is in practice, as long as it markets well and could sell a machine. To achieve good machine design, the very point that you touch and manipulate them can’t be clumsy, or the entire thing is clumsy. There are surely lots of fiery meetings at Apple a year before we see their new designs. This is the result of taking the time to design and test various input methods. This is a simple outgrowth of Apple’s ethos to design machines easy to use. The touch guestures on iPad/iOS are also far more effective and better designed than on competing tablets. I’ve been using these gestures on OSX for for 5+ years now. No coincidence that Apple is far and above the competition in the actual man-machine interface of track pads.
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