Why not expand the conventional laptop trackpad area into a touch display?
Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
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Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#12I'd rather have OLED keys than the strip on the MBP.
Sure, they would effectively be function keys, but you could see what the keys do for all the various apps without having to learn and remember.
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#13There is also another MS Applied Science project that is a mix of Surface and TouchBar-like enabled keyboard:
https://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/D...
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#14Microsoft throwing shades at Apple.
How so? This is from 2010.
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#15I remember seeing it for the first time on HN few years ago and it's still relevant: http://hijinksensue.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2012-06-1...
OK, before you kill me: I know it's not the same thing and Apple actually brings value to the table with their products (even if sometimes it's 'just' polishing the UI/UX). What I don't like is that most of the world will gladly accept everything that Apple sells as Apple's fantastic and groundbreaking ideas, forgetting about the prior art.
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#16Microsoft throwing shades at Apple.
How so? This is from 2010.
It's more a case of someone on HN reminding everyone that Apple didn't really 'revolutionise' the keyboard and that everything old is new again. Lenovo did this (adaptive keyboard strip) when they replaced the function keys on the X1 Carbon with something similar to what Apple are doing now. FWIW I absolutely hated it.
Edit: Added lenovo.
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#17It's a cool concept, which might help a bit with productivity but it didn't leave the research phase at Microsoft so on this one Apple got there first because they delivered.
I'd assume now that it's out there other manufacturers like Lenovo, Dell and HP will try to copy them.
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#18Off-topic: I suppose my link [1] did have wrong title or timing to be noticed ;) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12809915
Happens all the time and IMO it's mostly timing-related.
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
How so? This is from 2010.
It's more a case of someone on HN reminding everyone that Apple didn't really 'revolutionise' the keyboard and that everything old is new again. Lenovo did this (adaptive keyboard strip) when they replaced the function keys on the X1 Carbon with something similar to what Apple are doing now. FWIW I absolutely hated it. Edit: Added lenovo.
Mods edited it. I think the date is key. This isn't MS speaking to Apple, just HN reminding us how science gets done.
Re: Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)
#20There is also another MS Applied Science project that is a mix of Surface and TouchBar-like enabled keyboard: https://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/D...
Of course! This is cool in so many different ways.
I can imagine a large touch bar with stylus input (!) would actually be useful.
Also a trackpad at the top of the keyboard would be perfect for working on trains and planes!