alt Hacker News> certainly would have led to a path where Macintosh was just another abandoned experiment like the Apple III.
This seems really extreme. You're saying a trackpad would have made the whole thing a failure?
> certainly would have led to a path where Macintosh was just another abandoned experiment like the Apple III.
This seems really extreme. You're saying a trackpad would have made the whole thing a failure?
I'm saying that being designed around the singular task of word processing would have made it a platform/ecosystem failure, even if was a nominally successful one-off product.
The Macintosh (specifically the original 128k version) was a dismal market failure too. What succeeded (relatively speaking) was the platform/ecosystem.