[arrel]

That sounds like the reason Apple refused to use a hardware button to trigger the camera shutter, but thankfully they caved on that one and I can take a photo without having to guess where I'm tapping the screen.

I'd rather see companies trying out ideas that might work instead of just sticking to their metaphorical guns.

[gfodor]

Well every design change is a trade off. Breaking metaphors, all other things being equal, is bad. The fact that the author here identifies an on screen cursor as a use case probably is enough to strike fear in any apple designer that this would lead to a regression in ux.