"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!

crystaln an hour ago | parent | next [-]

He also thought people didn’t want big phones and tablets.

perbu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	mixmastamyk 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	makeitdouble 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	aucisson_masque an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.