[slantyyz]

>> It's about the orientation, not the touch screen itself. A tablet you normally hold horizontally or at an angle when you use it.

I get that it might not be for everyone, but a LOT of keyboard cases have been sold to iPad and iPad Pro users (and many of these cases prop up the iPad screen vertically). And keep in mind that iOS pretty much necessitates use of the touch screen more than Windows 8/10 does. So there must be a LOT of people who would be OK with that mode of use.

With respect to the Surface, I use it with the keyboard attached 99% of the time so it's pretty much vertical all the time. It's not even remotely uncomfortable or tiring in normal use.

[coldtea]

>I get that it might not be for everyone, but a LOT of keyboard cases have been sold to iPad and iPad Pro users (and many of these cases prop up the iPad screen vertically).

Yes, but those are for writing -- ie. using the iPad laptop style. Not for doing work e.g. graphics, etc with the iPad vertically held.

[slantyyz]

>> Yes, but those are for writing -- ie. using the iPad laptop style. Not for doing work e.g. graphics, etc with the iPad vertically held.

You aren't really suggesting that writing is not work, are you?

And why would Schiller make a point of mentioning the touch bar integration with Office and iWork?

[coldtea]

>You aren't really suggesting that writing is not work, are you?

No, I wrote "E.g. graphics" as a parenthetical expression to give an example of the kind of work they dont use those cases for. That is, what I wrote amounts to:

"Yes, but those [cases] are for writing -- ie. using the iPad laptop style. [They are not using the cases] for doing work [like graphics] with the iPad vertically held".

>And why would Schiller make a point of mentioning the touch bar integration with Office and iWork?

Because Schiller made this point about a laptop, and even more so a laptop with a flat horizontal strip.

Whereas what I said is that it's tedious for people to do that (touch interaction) on a vertical screen. In Schiller's example there's Office and iWork but no vertical touch screen -- just the strip, and the regular screen you handle with the mouse/trackpad (that is, without having your hands in the air to touch the screen).

[slantyyz]

Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but in my use of touch on a vertically oriented screen, it hasn't been negative at all.

There's something to be said about being able to use two fingers to directly manipulate a window's contents to zoom an image or vector diagram in an app to get to the precise size versus futzing around with control + or control - using the app's preset increments.