Hindsight is 20 20. I was in the mobile industry, and Apple made a bold move and carried it out properly. Unlike Nokia they tapped new users, which is one reason it didn't fail, contrary to Nokia, had they produced phones that break when they fall, in the opinion of about anyone I spoke with about the topic. And I spoke with many, I've even manned an exhibition at MWC at some point.

Regarding precision, on my Nokia internet tablet I got near pixel precision, yes, not at the level of using a mouse on a pc but miles above what a finger on a display can do. But it just doesn't matter anymore, usage has changed. Power users were the least convinced, they held on to their Nokia communicators and N95 for a long time.

Exactly, Apple didn't want to use resistive touch which was very precise, so they developed multi touch capacitive glass screens. The first iterations were not all that, but somehow the world suddenly accepted a dropped phone to be broken. Nokia couldn't have made the iPhone a success, because their customers would never have accepted a phone that breaks when dropped. Not until way after the iPhone made that acceptable. Same for one day battery use before needing to recharge, another thing that the iPhone got people to accept.

As for keyboards, sliders, etcetera, sure, more screen real estate is better, but for instance a touch area on the back or the fixed mouse idea were interesting. Meanwhile, the world moves on and all mobile apps and sites take into account that a part of the screen is sometimes obscured by fingers which aren't too precise.

Actually, all phones had plastic displays for unbreakability untill the iPhone, indeed glass because shiny. Glass also conflicted with resistive touch sensing, but Apple/Jobs worked around that by pushing for a finger touch device. We've all accepted it ages ago, but having your hand in front of the screen is not optimal. Typing on an on-screen keyboard, where your key presses are obscured by your finger is really not all that. Sadly, no alternative made it, partially for being too cumbersome, too expensive or just not from Apple. The international press lapped up the iPhone, partially because it wasn't Microsoft. The iPhone however, was practically the first phone that broke when dropped. And to my astonishment, the world not just accepted that, they embraced it.

Wait what, you still use non-stick pans...?!?

That explains _everything_!

I hear you. I used HP-UX and Linux at university, then some Solaris, and various others, coming back to HP-UX professionally then Linux. Having a terminal partially below other windows but active and pasting and typing in them is hard to go without once it's in your workflow.

Nowadays, kids don't even learn moving windows around, getting spoonfed on tablets half the time. And crippled windows and Mac the other half.

BTW Windows doesn't even have edge resistance on move. It will be a cold day in hell before the rest of the usability features is available.

I find most people have no idea there's a way to change defaults. My preferred settings are possibly unusable for most people. I have seen programmers use Apple devices. They couldn't configure them how I said I'd prefer to have a window manager behave. Supposedly I want something I shouldn't want... To each his own. I'm just happy there are options that can support my wishes.

The full screen without decorations actually sounds interesting and efficient, and in some far away past I have dabbled with a tiling window manager (ratpoison I think). Due to being stuck at work on Windows 11 it would be a hassle to switch to something too different. I tried but found it annoying. Now I use KDE mover sizer on Windows which makes it somewhat bearable.

Overlapping windows are a solution to limited screen real estate, that enables to keep context on each view and at window sizes that conflict with side by side viewing. That said, without focus follows mouse, kwin move / raise lower/ resize without needing the window edge (typically using modifier keys), active window not forced to top, and similar features, its use quickly diminishes.

Indeed, without that, you get Royal Dutch Philips as it was in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.... Perhaps before (I didn't keep track yet) and slightly after. Fantastic inventions and developments, terrible business decisions. Shelved the CD-R for 10 years because they're record company might be making less money. They did get USD 0.10 on every disc including CD-ROMs (such as on magazines and such, AOL ring a bell) until about 2002 or so.

Stop the victim blaming! The Koreans are the baddies!

What, this is a nerd site? Oh, carry on...

On a more serious note, I immediately wondered why he didn't use a not work connected tablet instead of his work machine for Teams, during the home office years after COVID I always refrained from installing anything MS onto my Linux box, since I consider their software untrustworthy. Not just in the sense that they might have gaping security holes but also that they might use telemetry and other features to see what's out there.

Happy Easter and keep it up! Sorry I don't have mod points.

I'm sorry if you live in a place where you can't vacuum (1.8kW) and at the same time cook on your stove (5kW) and use the oven (2.8kW) plus have regular stuff on at the same time, most of which will be of after 21hrs, so charging at 11kW or at least 3.7kW should be possible from the same home connection without any upgrade to the distribution network, between 21h and 7h. Considering also the need to charge up about 10 to 15kWh since the average commute is about 60km if that,...

So to avoid you sponsoring your neighbours, the best thing you can do is get an EV before them. Have them sponsor you.

This message was brought to you only partially tongue in cheek

True, but that reduces the problem to the delivery and not the generation, in times where the former is easier than the latter. Parent comment seemed to claim that the energy budget would not allow a full transition to EV.

Just a side note, the refining of oil to gas takes about as much electricity per distance driven as EV. So no, if the whole world moves to EV we're not going to have a terrible energy problem.

From a certain angle, exactly. Reminds me of a Dutch friend about how many bike locks are required: one more than the bikes left and right of yours...