[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.