[ryanwaggoner]

Care to share a couple examples of the meaningless sentences in this piece? I found it more interesting and engaging than the Wired piece, precisely because it dived deeper into the theory behind the interaction design choices that Apple made here.

[hedora]

Not the person you are responding to, but:

> Honestly, the thinking could have stopped there and that would have been perfectly adequate. A rough finger facsimile as pointer. But the concept is pushed further. As you approach an interactive element, the circle reaches out, smoothly touching then embracing and encapsulating the button.

> The idea of variable cursor velocity is pushed further here too. When you’re close to an object on the screen, it changes its rate of travel to get where you want to go quicker, but it does it contextually, rather than linearly, the way that macOS or Windows does.

Could be shortened significantly. The passage repeats each point twice, including the main point, and is mostly flowery language that doesn’t add anything.

> The thinking could have stopped there, but instead of being a rough finger facsimile, the circle accelerates, then reaches out to elements as you approach them, embracing and encapsulating the button. This is unlike macOS and Windows, which vary velocity linearly.

The entire article is like this. I think the author was padding for word count or seo or something. I didn’t read the wired piece.

[ryanwaggoner]

I don't read much of this language as "flowery" at all, and I think removing almost any of the words that you're decrying as not adding anything change the meaning and tone.

For example, your rewritten version is not an accurate representation of what the author was trying to convey, and mangles the two separate points into one. The contextual acceleration the author is describing is not the same thing as the circle "reaching out" as it approaches buttons.

[tomcam]

> Unlike the text entry models of before, which placed character after character in a facsimile of a typewriter, this was a tether that connected us, embryonic, to the aleph.

I literally don’t understand what this means

[ryanwaggoner]

Not understanding something doesn't make it meaningless.

[tomcam]

Did I say anything about it being meaningless?