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Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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The cognitive leap to associate moving a mouse or keyboard (in your hand) with stuff going down on a screen is significant compared to just touching something you see and it moves. The former represents how we typically interact with a computer, the later how we interact with everything else.

It's actually kind of amazing that Apple made both those interaction types - Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen, and the iPhone/iPad are(perhaps more arguably) the most successful implementations of touch screen interaction.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Also, possibly a 1-year old kid who likes to poke and grab things.

Except grab things without grabbing them. The kid was doing the pinch gesture without pinching the paper. It doesn't look like grabbing to me, so much as gesturing. The paper would have crinkled if it had been grabbing.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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The cognitive leap to associate moving a mouse or keyboard (in your hand) with stuff going down on a screen is significant compared to just touching something you see and it moves. The former represents how we typically interact with a computer, the later how we interact with everything else. It's actually kind of amazing that Apple made both those interaction types - Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + s…

Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen

I raise you Douglas Englebart and a decade earlier.

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