{"id":8992,"date":"2013-01-06T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2013-01-06T20:48:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:48:02","slug":"why-touch-screens-will-not-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8992","title":{"rendered":"Why Touch Screens Will Not Take Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are three big differences between these handy touch screens and a PC&#8217;s screen: angle, distance and time interval.<\/p>\n<p>The screen of a phone or tablet is generally more or less horizontal. The screen of a desktop (or a laptop on a desk), however, is more or less vertical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=why-touch-screens-will-not-take-over\">Why Touch Screens Will Not Take Over: Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My belief is that touch screens make sense on mobile computers but not on stationary ones. Microsoft is making a gigantic bet that I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/windows-8-disappointing-usability\/\">Windows 8 \u2014 Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the recent launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablets, Microsoft has reversed its user interface strategy. From a traditional Gates-driven GUI style that emphasized powerful commands to the point of featuritis, Microsoft has gone soft and now smothers usability with big colorful tiles while hiding needed features.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three big differences between these handy touch screens and a PC&#8217;s screen: angle, distance and time interval. The screen of a phone or tablet is generally more or less horizontal. The screen of a desktop (or a laptop &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8992\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[50,441],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-microsoft","tag-user-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8995,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions\/8995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}