Magic mouse and the madness of iPad
Using iPro 11 inch (3rd gen)
Gorge Michael’s version of faith remains the best while obviously there was no real threat from Limp Bizkit rendering of the same.
My faith in the iPad also keeps getting stronger.
From frowning about its size being too big for my economy airplane seat to screaming about its camera being on the side (in landscape mode), I have shared my share of sharing woes.
It has been journey and the cry baby routine has been replaced by Simon Sinek’s ‘ consistency is the key to happiness and 6 pack abs’ advice. So for the last 2 years I have been working hard on that relationship with the iPad — and it is paying off.
Especially since my MacBook broke, I made it a point to give the iPad a fighting chance. Indeed, I have been itching for a new MacBook and reading up all sorts of reviews of choosing between pro or air and all the numbers associated with the M but have not bought any of them yet – partly due to seeing no immediate and genuine reason (shifted to windows) and partly for the above mentioned reason.
During the course of this time, I had several aha moments – Most notably when I figured out that the real pro is the iPad 10 inch and not the pro pro.
This time, my love took another leap when I got my hands on a second hand magic mouse 2. Yes, I just bought it for the future where I would actually have bought a MacBook hooked on to an external monitor and thereby needing a mouse and a keyboard.
For a while the mouse just lay around arousing that motivation to take the big leap. However, the mess that my table is, I thought there ought to be a better way of using this thing. Hey guess what, I do have an iPad, lets see if this thing pairs up! And it did!
Initially I only saw this little round spot that is supposed to replace the famous ‘pointer’ – It would have been ok to look at it except it reminded me of the same round spot that you get under accessibility settings – very handy in the old says if your physical home button was banged up for some reason or you did not want to wear off the button anticipating a sale later on.
Then, I moved it – and it changed my world!
The sharpness of a mouse pointer was replaced by this gooey cuddly thing that moved around hugging everything it touched.
The screeching and invasive pointiness of the traditional ‘mouse’ was completely gone. Now it was like music playing through a heavy bass sound system – the soft thump thump of the drum.
I was now just marveling at moving it around - seeing how it touches everything - how it turns water into wine.
The experience so far has been so great that I think the iPad actually might replace everything and be my trusty workhorse. I find myself eager to play with the blob thing and how it engulfs the buttons and the icons like the jelly stuff that wraps people up right before they are put to sleep in these pods for hyper space travel.
Now I also know what the engineers and designers at apple might be trying to do – slowly but surely innovating the users to a very different experience – making the two worlds meet somewhere in between. Between a laptop and a truly touchscreen experience. Not just merely replacing one with the other.
I am totally in for the ride.
Lots more to explore on the iPad now – the party is only getting started.
One advice for the apple store: Please put up some magic mice next to the iPads instead of just the keyboards with the touchpad. People are not getting the full experience.
