I think they missed an opportunity by not making the surface of the battery a trackpad. I imagine that would be an added convenience for some use cases.
Your comment reminded me of the way Apple didn't put cursor keys on the keyboard for the first Macintosh model because they wanted to force users to use the mouse.
Oh god. I love that it's a move to market a feature, but it's so disrespectful of a user's expectations. Wonder if this kind of trade off still happens there or if it's just a byproduct of its time.
It wasn’t to force users to use the mouse. It was to force developers to create software that used the new paradigm rather than just porting over CLI apps.
Apple still uses this tactic a lot, and it’s one of the things that irritates people most about them. I’m glad they do it, but it’s understandable why it pisses people off.
> I think they missed an opportunity by not making the surface of the battery a trackpad.
Apple for the most part doesn't merge two unrelated functions in a peripheral or component.
For example, they never did the "2 in 1" thing with the Mac that Windows vendors did by having a tablet using a touch interface that was also a laptop using a keyboard and mouse. The result was a device that wasn't great at being either a laptop or a tablet. I have a Surface 2 in 1 and it's not a particularly good experience.
The early adopters of the Apple Vision Pro will already have mice, trackpads, etc. on their Macs and iPads that will work just fine.
