alt Hacker NewsAnd Mac OS is built adjacent to iOS which shares most themes and design principles. The ecosystem is already designed around touch.
And Mac OS is built adjacent to iOS which shares most themes and design principles. The ecosystem is already designed around touch.
ecosystem != UI
Buttons sized to be hit by your physical thumb and buttons sized to be hit by a tiny high-precision cursor are very different things.
I am sitting on a macbook pro with the vertical tab pane open in chrome, with 12 tabs. The outer joint of my thumb covers the entire list, in both width and height. A touch-friendly version of that would be humongous in comparison.