My iPad Pro in its keyboard case is fundamentally the same as a touch MacBook and I have no fatigue issues related to using that. Some things work better with a mouse/trackpad, and other things feel more natural and quicker with touch. Based on my experience with the work Thinkpad I have, I use both touch and trackpad to operate it. Was Steve Jobs right? Is the Smart Keyboard Folio just a poorly design iPad keyboard?Ĭlick to expand.The most common mistake when discussing touchscreen Macs is assuming that you would use touch for every single interaction. But if you just get a Smart Keyboard Folio without any external mouse/trackpad, you’re back to that touch-only navigation method. Of course now we have a mouse/trackpad support with iPadOS and a Magic Keyboard with a built in trackpad. I've been using a Smart Keyboard with my iPad since 2015 and yet I still have mixed feelings about it. Since then I've always wondered about the user experience with this keyboard. When the iPad is propped up with the Smart Keyboard, the only way of interacting with it was with touch and touch only. Ironically, post-Steve Jobs era in 2015, Apple released the first Smart Keyboard with the first gen iPad Pro 12.9". I know he was just referring to a touch screen mac, but ergonomically it still applies to iPads with keyboards. It makes great demo, but after awhile of interacting with the screen, your arm wants to fall off. Steve Jobs once said that touch screens don’t want to be vertical.
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